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It's hard to understand his criticism of g+ as his post of quite a ramble. If g+ had APIs it would have been successful how? He makes several conjectures but ei

It's hard to understand his criticism of g+ as his post of quite a ramble. If g+ had APIs it would have been successful how? He makes several conjectures but either doesn't provide an argument or just a passing one. Also being a developer, he is qualified to comment on the business directions of some of the large companies in the world because ... Even in all my hubris, I would feel compelled to add several "just my opinion" caveats. Does anyone have a link to the google lunch lady's blog? I heard she has some great tax advice that a lot of CFOs should hear.

ocdtrekkie 9y ago
Communities like social networks heavily depend on their celebrities/engagers to get people regularly participating. Google+'s own UI was easily overwhelmed by the dreaded "99+ notifications", and the lack of competent content management features. With APIs, these "big" users would have an easier time working with the network. Similarly, third party apps and tools are key in bringing multi-network entities into engaging on your network. Note that Facebook massively profited from people integrating with their platform both internally and externally, bringing games in (Google did try this... poorly) and bringing Facebook right into their own websites.