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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 o
by 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 agoAccording 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 agoIMO 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.