The Future of Google+? Log in, look around and log out (domain.me)
Google releases Orkut, their social network service on January 24th, 2004. Orkut gets popular in India and Brasil. On February 9th of 2010 we got Google Buzz, which was criticized over and over again. In the meantime, Facebook and Twitter conquered social media and are probably laughing at Google which services keep stumbling.
But now, Google has some new shiny technology in the form of Google+, a set of services that should get you into Google’s social networking world. Unfortunately, it won’t. You won’t.
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[ 0.29 ms ] story [ 110 ms ] threadI think the biggest challenge will be getting everyone's friends to join. It is a tall order.
Everything Google does gets checked out by TONS of people. Even if they've failed at social networking before, people are still going to try it. Plus, enough people are upset with Facebook's eternal privacy issues that they are looking for an alternative.
No, instead, it's the other thing he's wrong about in that article that's the reason it will die.
The invites are not to create hype. They're to let them roll it out slowly and fix problems before the whole world sees them.
But just like Wave, by the time I get in, my friends that are already in will no longer care, and by the time all my friends get in, most of us won't care.
Google's biggest problem is that too many people want to use the service at launch. (Oh, how I'd love to have that problem.) They're (once again) handling it poorly, and it's going to hurt them. And possibly kill the service.
Things become old news quickly on the net.
Let's wait a few weeks before making a verdict.
P.s. if you have an invite to spare, click on my username.
But on the other hand, do I need notifications in my e-mail? No. And if notifications get too much right in my face, I'll probably disable Plus somehow.
X has never had y->You never do y on x->x will never have y
These things do not follow from each other. And people do still try stuff from Google out, despite failures. I'm trying it right now! And it's great.
I like google+ versus FB because: - I trust google more than FB - It doesn't exist as a walled garden
Facebook is succeeding because it is simplifying the web for the masses, which is the exact model AOL used in the 90's. It was successful for the masses, but eventually people always follow what the early adopters do. If google accomplishes what they are trying to do, which is provide a way for you to curate web content via your circle of influence WITHOUT having to be behind the FB wall, then it is a better model and people will move. Facebook will have to adapt or go the way of Myspace or AOL.