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Instead of a seperate UI, Google+ should have been integrated into Gmail. Then more people would naturally use it everyday. The integration would not center aro
by egfx 8y ago
Instead of a seperate UI, Google+ should have been integrated into Gmail. Then more people would naturally use it everyday. The integration would not center around a separate UI but features would be enhanced to gradually bring circles and the like into the core email experience. AOL managed to expand in this way with email and chat as core features.
- raxxorrax 8y agoI think that would have made many people close their accounts, since such an integration wouldn't be welcomed by all. I only use social networking for professional relations. Sharing anything beyond that with Google would be a nightmare, even if that is a minority opinion. To the topic at hand: I think their failure was mainly a timing problem. Facebooks largest argument has always been that it is the largest network with the most users. Many people didn't have an interest to change the network.
- WorldMaker 8y agoBeing integrated into Gmail didn't save Google Buzz. (That was also one of Buzz's early critical privacy missteps was being integrated into Gmail and showing up barely announced as opt-out rather than opt-in.) If they were really smart, G+ should have better bootstrapped out of Google Reader. Google Reader at the time had a very interesting and active social community. (Instead they killed Reader as if it were a competitor to G+ and just hoped the now incredibly inconvenienced community would just move to G+.)