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I don't think that's fair at all. Google docs, gmail, gchat - these are all inherently about interaction and they're great. What Google doesn't do successfull
by roc 16y ago
I don't think that's fair at all. Google docs, gmail, gchat - these are all inherently about interaction and they're great.
What Google doesn't do successfully, is frame those interactions to make their own network "sticky". It's those second-order interactions ("likes", "reblogging", "fans", "mayor", etc) that Google doesn't seem to get traction with.
But that's a very different thing than enabling interaction.
- ThomPete 16y agoThere is absolutely nothing elegant about the interaction of googles products IMHO. What is elegant is the stuff that goes on behind the scences. But the actual interaction part could be improved quite a lot.
- jacabado 16y agoThe proudly presented see-as-you-type Wave feature is a major example of what you are saying. Real people hated it because it was distractive, annoying and embarassing but they never tought about that because it showed their big technical achievement: the wavelet syncronization in real-time. REAL-TIME!!