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Google Buzz is a good example of how forcing an active account on everyone at the same time led to a large backlash. There's a pretty wide gulf between opening
by msbarnett 15y ago
Google Buzz is a good example of how forcing an active account on everyone at the same time led to a large backlash.
There's a pretty wide gulf between opening up and forcing it on people. You can't build a social networking sites if it isn't open to people in your users' social networks. But you also can't build a site people trust and want to use by forcing it on them.
- nostrademons 15y agoCuriously, I've heard that FaceBook also started by forcing an account on everyone - Zuckerburg scraped the online student database so that everyone at Harvard automatically had a FaceBook account. (Or rather, he scraped it for FaceMash and then used the data again to start FaceBook.) You can get away with a lot more when you're a college student project than when you're a multi-billion-$ corporation.
- nrbafna 15y agoIt is different. Buzz was forced on to anyone who logged into Gmail.
- rhc2104 15y agohttp://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register-for-new-facebook-website/ http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register... It does not seem like the Facemash data was reused for thefacebook.
- daralthus 15y agoStill I am curious, what circles would I get based on all the data google has ever collected from me.
- groby_b 15y agoAs far as I can tell, none. See here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so... Page 6, specifically: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-social/6/ http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...