A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
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Re: A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
#2Big assumption that people who were not Google+ users would tolerate having to join it just to continue using Google Reader.
A lot of people would have just been pissed off that "G+ is borging google reader just like it is everything else".
Re: A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
#3This makes the assumption that Google haters wouldn't have found some reason to hate Google anyway. Which is overly optimistic in my opinion.
Re: A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
#4Big assumption that people who were not Google+ users would tolerate having to join it just to continue using Google Reader. A lot of people would have just been pissed off that "G+ is borging google reader just like it is everything else".
No joining necessary, they just move your reader account into G+ and slowly people start using it for more than an RSS reader.
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#5YouTubers got really pissed off with Google+ comments, but that has calmed down now because really it's still just comments below a video. What that did though was it made people (who may never have even tried +) really annoyed with it. But for RSS, imagine if they forced people to read it on +, there would be uproar.
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#6This makes the assumption that Google haters wouldn't have found some reason to hate Google anyway. Which is overly optimistic in my opinion.
I really don't think it's "Google haters" who have caused Google to back away from G+ — it's the fact that people were indifferent about the service to begin with.
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#7Big assumption that people who were not Google+ users would tolerate having to join it just to continue using Google Reader. A lot of people would have just been pissed off that "G+ is borging google reader just like it is everything else".
The author seems to think gmail would have had a seamless integration as well.
http://www.scottporad.com/2013/03/15/why-is-gmail-not-part-o...
There seems to be cognitive dissonance on people's aversion to strategic opportunism.
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#8This is the way I've been using Facebook for years. Most of the publications I follow have FB pages to which they submit their most pertinent content (for small publications and individual authors this usually ends up being every story or post). I can skim what's new and get other recommendations from people that I know. With a little bit of work I can also filter down what I see to just the people whose opinions I care about. At least that's the way it worked for several years.
Facebook's decision to limit the content that users see from Pages who don't pay for advertisement messes up the above strategy, and I suppose if Google had integrated Reader into Google+ the way the author suggests they may have been able to offer themselves as a better alternative.
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#9In my cynical opinion, this is like blaming a raindrop for the flood.
Re: A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
#10Big assumption that people who were not Google+ users would tolerate having to join it just to continue using Google Reader. A lot of people would have just been pissed off that "G+ is borging google reader just like it is everything else".
The author seems to think gmail would have had a seamless integration as well. http://www.scottporad.com/2013/03/15/why-is-gmail-not-part-o... There seems to be cognitive dissonance on people's aversion to strategic opportunism.
ha! i forgot that i wrote that blog post.
you'd think that between that post and this one that i have some reason for caring that google+ succeed. i don't...i have no vested interest.
i just annoys me when big companies with massive amounts of resources bungle stuff. it seems like with so much talent and money it would be easier to get stuff right.