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Pretty sure some googlers can chime in or someone will dig a post from that time but I seem to recall the inability for Google to crawl facebook private profile

Pretty sure some googlers can chime in or someone will dig a post from that time but I seem to recall the inability for Google to crawl facebook private profiles, where juicy profiling bits live, was one of the incentives for google to get into the game. And the fact that someone at Google freaked out over the sn revolution but don't quote me on that. I am pretty sure I read the demise of google reader was because it's hard to make money off of RSS/Atom and harder to bolt adtech on top of it. Google had wave, blogger, orkut and other things. It's not like they didn't test different things or try to emulate others. They just failed edit: they failed with g+ I mean I am more amazed at how microsoft had the messenger brand and how it's now facebook's. It's mind boggling. And ms had a blogging strategy at some point.

zeroxfe 8y ago
Yep, I recall that the FB like buttons proliferating the web was perceived as a huge threat (and drove the +1 buttons.) > Google had wave, blogger, orkut and other things. It's not like they didn't test different things or try to emulate others. They just failed. Wave failed, but was a fantastic experiment, and the learnings went into Google Docs/Sheets for collaborative editing. Blogger and Orkut didn't fail. They were hugely successful -- Blogger worldwide, and Orkut primarily in Brazil (and India, I think.) Both had great rides, and withered away as everything does.
- puzzle 8y ago
  According to someone that worked on Blogger, a decade ago one of the top three or five sites in all of Greece was this blog, Troktiko, which tragically went into hibernation when the cofounder, a journalist, was murdered.
- rincebrain 8y ago
  IMO the more entertaining learnings from Wave went into Hangouts Chat, because the embedding Docs/Sheets and other rich content into your threaded conversations just gives me Wave flashbacks every time I see a new one. I liked Wave, even if nobody knew what the actual use cases for it were.

zeroxfe 8y ago

Yep, I recall that the FB like buttons proliferating the web was perceived as a huge threat (and drove the +1 buttons.) > Google had wave, blogger, orkut and other things. It's not like they didn't test different things or try to emulate others. They just failed. Wave failed, but was a fantastic experiment, and the learnings went into Google Docs/Sheets for collaborative editing. Blogger and Orkut didn't fail. They were hugely successful -- Blogger worldwide, and Orkut primarily in Brazil (and India, I think.) Both had great rides, and withered away as everything does.

puzzle 8y ago
According to someone that worked on Blogger, a decade ago one of the top three or five sites in all of Greece was this blog, Troktiko, which tragically went into hibernation when the cofounder, a journalist, was murdered.
rincebrain 8y ago
IMO the more entertaining learnings from Wave went into Hangouts Chat, because the embedding Docs/Sheets and other rich content into your threaded conversations just gives me Wave flashbacks every time I see a new one. I liked Wave, even if nobody knew what the actual use cases for it were.