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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seems to me that the post doesn't fully address the most important fact: "He cannot be replaced..." Gruber takes the paragraph to points about what Jobs' absence will do to the stock, and then takes the rest of the post to talk about the so
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree. And the fridge acquisition shows that they're not done implementing new ways to share yet. I think the trick will be to make it all easy to understand. I think another non-trivial difference is that there no ads, at least not yet.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It doesn't exist yet. But Google's history of trying to adopt federation and with open source in general give me hope that that's part of the plan. I guess it seems to me like, from their perspective, their previous two attempts, Wave and B
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Why couldn't you create an application password?
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Great piece! This is the aspect of Google+ that excites me the most, that the one company whose incentives are most closely aligned with a vibrant and open web has finally released a social product to mostly positive critical and popular se
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seems like you're giving access to the people that need it the least. Seems like you're simply shifting the self-interested (I don't mean this in a derogative sense) motivation of making this country better by not allowing 'job-stealing' im
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by joebadmo 15y ago
So, I'm admittedly a pretty big Google fanboy, so take the following with a grain of salt. Playing the white knight (or social underdog), Google has tended to act in the interest of data portability, but Google’s policy of “we’ll let you i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It strikes me as a study of depth vs. breadth. FB (and RSS) offer depth, i.e. deeper, longer content, where Twitter offers breadth, i.e. more potential sources. http://weblog.muledesign.com/2011/07/density_and_difference.... But I feel li
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Google's Existential Crisis(blog.byjoemoon.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Aha. I yet again fail to detect irony in text. The entire comment makes so much more sense in that light, perfect sense in fact.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seemed as though by "Love this." you meant to endorse the sentiment. Were you saying you love the fact that a user made the sentiment? If so, why? Also, as I have never been on FB, I was genuinely curious as to how they implement private me
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by joebadmo 15y ago
My wife has always been an intermittent Facebook user, because she was never sure how private anything was, and the periodic UI changes confused her. She's perfectly intelligent and reasonably technically savvy, but not a huge tech nerd, an
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by joebadmo 15y ago
There's the integrated Gchat, as well as email. You can also address a post to a specific person only. So... that's at least three private messaging options. You're proposing another one? How does Facebook do it, exactly?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Changes I'm looking forward to: * Integration with Google Reader. * Group chat (why is Huddle a mobile-only function?). * Photo/screen-sharing (like the youtube sharing) in Hangouts. * More granular control (I'd like to see my stream minus
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I agree that the asymmetry of Circles is a cognitive issue. Facebook groups actually work more like "Places"[1], which I think is a lot more intuitive, but I don't think FB makes the metaphor clear enough to leverage that intuitiveness. I a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I used to use boxqueue with Boxee before I got an Apple TV 2 (which I don't use that much, as it turns out). http://boxqueue.appspot.com/ It's a bookmarklet that lets you save videos to watch later on Boxee. Which I liked because I could
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by joebadmo 15y ago
You're right, I apologize for the inaccuracy. Here's Hertzfeld himself on the subject: https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts/FddaP6je...
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Didn't they have just as much incentive not to when they released buzz and wave?
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by joebadmo 15y ago
True as far as it goes, but I think more imporantly, it's instructive to consider which company did it.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Facebook got cachet in the first place because of the early adopters, the same ones that are leaving it in droves. Personally, I hope you're right and the coked-up party bros stay on facebook. Because I'm interested in using technology for
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I definitely agree that Circles are better. I don't think they're as good as they could be. I don't think it's that clear for people, even those that are outside the group you cite, where exactly their comments are going. It's discoverable,
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Agreed. And according to Steven Levy[1]'s Wired article[2], it's Andy Hertzfeld, who was on the original Apple Macintosh team. [1] Who wrote In the Plex . [2] http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's called the people widget, and they added that a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2589119 Rapportive responded quite well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2613101
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, but that's still a significant amount of friction for something as important as understanding what your social context is. And how many people are really going to understand that that distinction even exists? I think the real problem i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I'm still holding out hope that an open, federated web is Google's ultimate play. They've demonstrated (Wave, Buzz) that they're willing to sink resources into it. Maybe they think if they can get enough traction, they can force the other s
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It does have some similarities to a chat room, yes. I would imagine it to be more persistent and have more multimedia functionality, though. Maybe threaded commenting. But you do hit on something important, though: the chat room was very ea
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's the same in Google+, but you still have to consciously check. My point being that it's not really the functionality that matters per se, it's the metaphor. Having the explicit metaphor gives you an immediate understanding of how the in
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's still potentially confusing, though. Bob has no idea who is part of Group A apart from himself. He could probably check, but there's a cognitive load/uncertainty there that equals friction to every secondary action (like a comment).
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I was also excited about this feature (and the way it's properly exposed and integrated) until I started thinking about how sharing to a list can get complicated in deceptive ways very quickly. For example: when someone comments on somethin
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Circles isn't really new. It's definitely implemented better (exposed and integrated), but it suffers from what I think is a serious weakness: hidden complexity. When you think about it as a broadcast, it's very simple and straightforward,

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