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Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by yuhong » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 7:07 AM UTC

jaysonelliot wrote: post #29

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I downvoted you for using the word "ghey" as some sort of perjorative, but the rest of what you're saying isn't doing much to dissuade me from my assessment. (Edit - the OP has edited to remove the word "ghey" since my comment, it was originally right before the phrase "blog posts" as an adjective.) IBM didn't lose out to an "operating system," if anything, it was Microsoft that made them capable of competing in the…

"IBM didn't lose out to an "operating system," if anything, it was Microsoft that made them capable of competing in the personal computer space."

Yea, I discussed OS/2 before. The JDA was not particularly good, but the alternative MS chose was a lot worse, and that was MS's fault. See my username for my other posts discussing this matter.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by bborud » Sat, Apr 14, 2012, 9:50 AM UTC

obituary_latte wrote: post #99

RobAtticus wrote: post #48

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I'm not saying Facebook is here to stay and has nothing to worry about, but Digg is a pretty poor comparison. What does it take for someone to switch news aggregators? Pretty much nothing. I just need to find another site that has links/discussion I find interesting. What does it take for someone to switch to another social network? Actually quite a bit. One, I want my friends to be there too. That alone is pretty di…

What I meant with the Digg comparison is an "implosion" scenario whereby Facebook does something disastrous to itself which causes a mass exodus, as opposed to something better coming along to supplant it. I think it would be very difficult for it to happen any other way. Indeed, the points you make reinforce this idea.

I'm having a hard time imagining what Facebook could possibly do to cause a mass exodus.

Re: Google+ gets a redesign

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Post by kin » Wed, Apr 18, 2012, 11:47 PM UTC

btilly wrote: post #166

kin wrote: post #144

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Yeah, people are sharing wrong. If one person posts Vacation photos, they should post it to their Friends circle, while their Tech posts can be public posts. But, to be honest it's one more thing for people to do and is the reason why there's no fine-tuning of noise.

No they are not sharing wrong, the system is broken. Google+ offers many ways for me to target content to a group of people that I personally know, and only one, "Public", to distribute content to anyone who might be interested. Unfortunately there are at least 3 common use cases that need to be considered: 1. I target a message to people I think are interested. (Google+ does this well.) 2. I broadcast a message to p…

My post implied that the system is broken, so I do agree with you.

As cumbersome as it is, the solution to 3 would be to have everyone in a circle create the exact same circle.