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Immediately thought of this the Steve Yegge rant from a while back - https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts
by nemothekid 12y ago
Immediately thought of this the Steve Yegge rant from a while back - https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX
He argued Facebook is more a platform than Google is - apparently because its easier for developers to build inside of Facebook's platform than Googles.
- bduerst 12y agoHuh, he seems to focus pretty heavily on G+ API, which was probably pretty bad when he posted this in 2011. Any idea if it's gotten better?
- dragonwriter 12y ago> Huh, he seems to focus pretty heavily on G+ API, which was probably pretty bad when he posted this in 2011. The repost of this (I don't know how close it was to the original sharing) was about a month after Google first released the initial, extremely limited G+ API -- and only four months after Google introduced G+. (Google had already rolled out another set of APIs at the time of that repost.) > Any idea if it's gotten better? G+ in specific has a much more robust API than it did at the time (unsurprisingly, given how new it was then), and more significantly Google in general has really developed very much in a way that seems to be in the direction Yegge was calling for in the essay.