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Is it just me or is there a recent surge of G+ stuff here? Almost seems systematic. Some free books post with the G+ book, some Facebook "bashing" posted on G+
by kriro 14y ago
Is it just me or is there a recent surge of G+ stuff here? Almost seems systematic. Some free books post with the G+ book, some Facebook "bashing" posted on G+ now this.
Maybe I'm just paranoid but it smells like a targeted campaign :P
- bcoates 14y agoTargeted by who? The coverage of G+ seems to be almost consistently negative.
- jlgreco 14y agoMaybe some social-media marketers have taken "any publicity is good publicity" a little too seriously and decided that bashing G+ is easier than praising it. ;)
- w33ble 14y agoAh, maybe they hired the same advertising firm as the IE team then. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
- anigbrowl 14y agoNo, just whimsy in this case. I haven't been very enthusiastic or made heavy use of G+, but I've found it gradually becoming useful despite minimizing my time spent on it.
- zem 14y agoit's far simpler than that - social news sites like reddit and hn have 'fads' - surges of interest in a topic that involve lots of people posting about it, a bunch of debate, and then a dying off of attention as people move to the next fad. it's not even anything new; the same thing happened on Usenet back in the day, and probably on bbses before that, and in newspaper letter pages even earlier.