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Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by notatoad »

donniezazen wrote: post #25

1. Google+ is a lot more open. I get to interact with variety of people through public posts. 2. I have gotten rid of RSS Reader and now get all updates on G+ and blog. One less thing to worry about. 3. Too many people make too many posts on Facebook. Circle on G+ is growing on me. 4. I like everything Google.

> I have gotten rid of RSS Reader and now get all updates on G+ and blog

i would love for g+ to make this more of a supported use case. right now it's a pretty terrible RSS reader, but it could be a great one. It would have been a much better plan than annoying all the google reader users with half-assed G+ integration.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by MattSayar »

vibrunazo wrote: post #97
MattSayar wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the insight. One more thing I can't figure out based on your reply is: how do you differentiate a decimal number from a list of numbers? For example, consider the list: 12.3, 7.6, 3.2 It's easy to see the three different numbers. But otherwise, wouldn't it be: 12,3, 7,6, 3,2 And how would you dictate that? "twelve comma three comma seven comma six comma..."?

Those would be grammatically correct around here, I don't think I ever seen anything like that in the real world. In actual math classes people will usually just put parenthesis around numbers: (12, 3), (7, 6), (3,2). Sometimes people will actually replace the comma for the dot to avoid confusion (there's no hard rule set on stone, as long as you're being clear, it's ok). Sometimes people will just space them differe…

I'm used to seeing parentheses around numbers when talking about ordered pairs, or in the context of matrices and dot products, etc.

We do use dots to represent multiplication, but they're not on the "ground", they're mid-height, aligned with -

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by DigitalSea »

simonsarris wrote: post #8

Wow. Lots of impressions here. MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history. Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Gosh just look at the page. Google+ looks very clean and beautiful compared to Facebook these days. I'm reminded of when everybody used to say "Facebook looks very clean and beautiful compared to MySpace these days". Google has a big leg up here as…

Lots of impressions and yet nobody but developers truly use it. MySpace isn't entirely dead are we forgetting that Justin Timberlake and Specific Media purchased the company not too long ago and have been working effortlessly in the background preparing to relaunch the website? If anyone should be worried it should be Google, Facebook, Tumblr and Pinterest because many seem to forget MySpace possess a pretty large catalogue of indie and mainstream music, they have licence agreements with the big four record labels, have millions of videos... People love an underdog and I think MySpace is in a prime position when it relaunches.

Comparing Tumblr or Pinterest to Google+ is like comparing a motorbike to a car, both forms of transport but each serves a different purpose. Google+ haven't won anything yet and I doubt they will, the landscape is going to be marginally different come 2013.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by muhfuhkuh »

tptacek wrote: post #62
muhfuhkuh wrote: post #36

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"I use Facebook to share and chat about photos." Which I'm sure you used to do in email. Smaller circle, same user task. "I use LinkedIn for recruiting." I still use email sometimes for that. Smaller circle, same user tasks (attaching resumes, getting contact info for screenings, planning meet and greets). Actually, it was Monster.com + email, so yeah, I guess LinkedIn replaced those.

You can easily do HN via email too; it's called a mailing list.

Definitely. But that's the thing. GP said he only has G+ because he has GMail, but uses those other email workalike interfaces because they are superior products. Just pointing out that they work in strikingly similar ways to email.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by tobylane »

simonsarris wrote: post #8

Wow. Lots of impressions here. MySpace is so small now! And shrinking! Let us never forget that history. Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought. Gosh just look at the page. Google+ looks very clean and beautiful compared to Facebook these days. I'm reminded of when everybody used to say "Facebook looks very clean and beautiful compared to MySpace these days". Google has a big leg up here as…

Facebook ads aren't relevant? I'm no ad expert but I heard of someone proposing by a very strictly relevant Facebook advert.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by mvgoogler »

mhurron wrote: post #39
brudgers wrote: post #2

I'm on Google+ because I have a Gmail account. I'm on Linkedin (and Facebook) because they offer value.

Wait, you have a G+ page, space, whatever automatically because you have a gmail account? Is there a way to get rid of that?

> Wait, you have a G+ page, space, whatever automatically because you have a gmail account?

No - you have to opt in.

> Is there a way to get rid of that?

If you want to disable G+ on your account (which will also remove your G+ profile), you can go to the "Google+" section of your Google account settings page (https://www.google.com/settings/plus). At the bottom there is a section labelled "Disable Google+".

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by tomkarlo »

toemetoch wrote: post #64
eli wrote: post #55

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Ugh. You can't divine traffic numbers from search volume and news mentions. If that were the case, Mitt Romney should start a social network because he's crushing Facebook: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney&graph=weekly_i...

lol, romney doesn't even register when compared to fb: http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=romney,+facebook&grap... red=fb, blue= romney The reason this is relevant in the discussion is that when you type in the url in chrome (arguably the top browser) the word in the domain and subdomain count as search words that show up in trends. So when you type "plus" for the g+ url it's added to trends. You can check that littl…

If you've already been on Plus, and you're in chrome or (I think) Firefox, it won't do a search when you type "plus" as the top autocomplete suggestion will be "http://plus.google.com. To search, you'd have to key down the list of suggestions.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by joe_the_user »

I would vaguely say Facebook is a social network people actually want to be on. LinkedIn is a social network people might believe they need to be on. The two aspects are at least somewhat contradictory - a some significant portion of Facebook users are there to share things they wouldn't want an employer or potential customer to see whereas LinkedIn is fundamentally about selling one's self.

If Google+, using a tighter identity and so-forth, happens to replace LinkedIn, that would be one way to not be in direct competition with Facebook. But also to guarantee a certain limit to growth (at least until everyone in the world has to sell themselves to potential employers and customers all the time - sadly real possibility but one that thankfully isn't appearing tomorrow).

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by dredmorbius »

taligent wrote: post #110
dredmorbius wrote: post #101

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GMail numbers weren't broken out, but YouTube rivals Facebook at ~150m uniques monthly. There's been a lot made of FB (and other social networks) primarily being photo-sharing networks. While I doubt video will ever quite have the same impact (they're deeper but not as casually shared), it probably will grow as a social element, and Google are beautifully positioned in this regard.

You seem to be implying that video is some new trend to social networks. It isn't. So I fail to see what Google+ brings to the table other than an inbuilt video chat client which has been done so many times over the last decade.

It's a growing trend, not necessarily new. Phones have video recorders, and quality and proliferation are growing. Again, YouTube's in the pole position, this is its race to lose.

Technology, even once widely available, can take a while to take off.

Re: Google+ grows 43% in June

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Post by danhoc01 »

I would like to see how many people sign up for (and visit) Google+ due to the Instant Upload mobile photo feature. That's certainly my use case. I occasionally end up on Google+ from a search, but that's maybe once a month.

I love Google+, but the only reason I specifically visit the site is to view my Instant Upload album.

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