AFAIK, this is the first online community to be obliterated because the hosting body just feels kind of "meh" about it. No financial collapse, judicial sanction, acrimonious shitstorm that gradually drove too many people away. Just... "meh."
Well, I have my own opinions about this stuff. Back in the day, Google basically consisted of a bunch of nerds doing nerd things, dashing from one pretty flower to the next, like butterflies. They were never really interested in social media. They were not like Zuckerberg, trying to figure out a computer solution to getting laid.
Now that Wall Street has a firm grip on Google, all those fun days are over. No more experiments, no playing around. If there's no provable profit aspect, it's gone.
All good things come to an end -- twice sooner, if they come from Google.
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ReplyDeleteSadly, yes.
ReplyDeleteI'm not dead yet!
ReplyDeleteAFAIK, this is the first online community to be obliterated because the hosting body just feels kind of "meh" about it. No financial collapse, judicial sanction, acrimonious shitstorm that gradually drove too many people away. Just... "meh."
ReplyDeleteIt was still much better then other social networks. Met some mix of intelligent people and radicalized American talibans trolls here.
ReplyDeleteDavid A Not the first. There was also Google Wave, Google Buzz, Orkut, and probably some others. All from Google.
ReplyDeleteWere Wave and Buzz social media like G+ and Orkut, though?
ReplyDeleteGreg S Wave was a collaboration tool with social media features. Buzz was way closer to Plus+Hangouts.
ReplyDeleteBrian Holt Hawthorne , don't forget Google Space.
ReplyDeleteGoogle managers are very naïve to expect instant popular adoption. They should have given these services way more time.
ReplyDeleteWell, I have my own opinions about this stuff. Back in the day, Google basically consisted of a bunch of nerds doing nerd things, dashing from one pretty flower to the next, like butterflies. They were never really interested in social media. They were not like Zuckerberg, trying to figure out a computer solution to getting laid.
ReplyDeleteNow that Wall Street has a firm grip on Google, all those fun days are over. No more experiments, no playing around. If there's no provable profit aspect, it's gone.
Most probably. Google Labs is dead, at least in the spirit. I am surprised they didn't axe Project Loon.
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