Let me get this straight: Google premiered hangouts using with President Obama, Ban Ki Moon, the Dalai Lama, and even the Muppets. And it didn't even become more popular than justin.tv. And now they are trying to take it off by VC interviews? How many people would be interested to watch that?
Surely, the number of people interested in Muppets is far more than the number of people interested in VC interviews. The official recorded hangouts for Muppets has only 75k views (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hof5nlozAxU).
Hangouts with Silicon Valley figures won't do anything to drum up interest in G+ except as a novelty among those that already know about it but don't use it.
Google should take the biggest stars of whoever wins the NBA Championship next month and do a hangout with them. Or have the stars of twilight/hunger games/{generic blockbuster} and do hangouts as part of their press junkets. Google may end up with a bunch of incredibly insipid hangouts but that's about 90% of "social" anyway.
I don't see what's so wrong with what Facebook did. Go after college students. They probably wouldn't mind obsessively checking two social networks anyway.
First thing I noticed when reading about this on the Google+ Page was I couldn't click the date:time link and add the event to my gCal. Probably not a good event launch when it highlights an obvious product fault.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 16.3 ms ] threadSurely, the number of people interested in Muppets is far more than the number of people interested in VC interviews. The official recorded hangouts for Muppets has only 75k views (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hof5nlozAxU).
Google should take the biggest stars of whoever wins the NBA Championship next month and do a hangout with them. Or have the stars of twilight/hunger games/{generic blockbuster} and do hangouts as part of their press junkets. Google may end up with a bunch of incredibly insipid hangouts but that's about 90% of "social" anyway.