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Now, only a year later, Ello is nearly forgotten, filed away with other would-be Facebook killers like the open source Diaspora and the near-dead Google+ The p
by wyclif 11y ago
Now, only a year later, Ello is nearly forgotten, filed away with other would-be Facebook killers like the open source Diaspora and the near-dead Google+
The problem with this statement is that there is a vast difference in number of users between Ello and Google+. The latter is far from "forgotten" or "near dead." Every time I hit G+, it's teeming with activity. I can't say that about Ello, which seems to be populated by mustachioed German font designers who love custom bicycles and the music of Kraftwerk.
Now, Google+ has had its issues. It might even be going away or abandonware. And it's a blip on the radar compared to Facebook. But that's different from comparing it to Ello! The "Google+ is dead" meme is just lazy tech reportage.
- meeper16 11y agoThe fact is: Google makes billions more in revenue and has billions more users. Google is founded on real technology and algorithms, facebook started by copying and pasting cold fusion code from myspace.
- tim333 11y agoAny source for the cold fusion thing? I thought it was all in PHP.
- lmm 11y agoShrug. Not my experience. Google+ looks deader than disco here.
- wyclif 11y agoIt's going to if you never circle anybody and none of your friends use it.
- knight17 11y agoNone of my friends use G+ but it has lots of active communities and there are many people who use it in a twitter-like manner -- posting non-personal items, starting discussions and the like that are crowd pullers (+1s, comments, resharing to other communities). G+ is a good network, I hope the Facebookers will remain on Facebook and Google will find some way to open it up to outside web to integrate it with its active communities and the wide web - a prime example is the G+ blog comment system. It had potential to be the no 1, but they squandered away the opportunity by limiting it to G+ and Disqus scored there.
- lmm 11y agoMy friends did use it. But they don't any more.
- agumonkey 11y agoI don't see lots of activity, but interesting groups not found elsewhere with regular liveliness still make me peek at G+ from time to time. It's still a weird and non-successful experiment in the sense of the original goal. A kind of Java.