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That idea is what Google+ overcomplicated and underdelivered. And sadly, it's also what Friendfeed was before facebook bought and snuffed it.
by zecg 8y ago
That idea is what Google+ overcomplicated and underdelivered. And sadly, it's also what Friendfeed was before facebook bought and snuffed it.
- reitanqild 8y ago> That idea is what Google+ overcomplicated and underdelivered. People keep saying things along those lines. Based on the number of healthy non-it-specialist communities I saw (that still stay there as long as possible) I don't think that is the explanation, except if you mean the initial launch. My explanation is a giant PR mistake where they tried to push a botched identity consolidation at the same time and with the same name as their social network. Ironically they later came back and fixed the identity problems and usability wise it became one of the better ones IMO. (I'm talking about keeping different groups of people separate, not protecting against TLA agencies.) In the end we should probably be happy: they could have owned social networking in addition to mail and search.
- JohnFen 8y agoThe reason that I never used Google+ was that, like Hangouts, I could never get it to work acceptably well on a technical level.