Google engineer rants about the failure of G+, post made public by accident.

Google+ is cool and all, but really its just another place to log on and view stupid status updates... Only person out of the 52 connections I have on there that updates is Kevin Rose. Shits annoying.
 


whats sad is they actually had a legitimate window of opportunity they could of easily put a hurt on facebook. Actually more like a couple times. Who ever the leader behind this whole google+ project should be fired.

As much as i hate google, it kinda pisses me off to know that who ever is behind this whole project is probably some smug asshole who thought that google+ would be a success no matter what because its google.
 
If G+ starts off with a platform, they will get inundated like MySpace with all their bullshit fake users.

When Facebook started there was no apps, no platform, no api. Those things came by much later, after Facebook had an already-established userbase whose behavior was corralled by limited Facebook options.

This shit will come down the road, because some development is sequential, not parallel.

Too bad this dev didn't understand that.
 
Anyone noticed the Chrome commercials featuring Angry Birds and how you could program Angry Birds in/on chrome.


First real move towards trying to make Chrome a 'platform' rather than a browser (oh wait you can't change the default text size, nm)
 
This guy is so hung up on API's being the success of a "platform", then drags mgmt and culture through the trash as they don't get how to succeed in building products. This guy is a lazy whiner and I'd fire his dumb ass for lack of being a problem solver, not this stupid rant. Anybody who's worked in the corporate world for a long time knows that nobody communicates anyways..

Google+ seems like took a limited approach when comparing against FB, where as Microsoft would have just copied the entire platform as-is and claim it were better and eventually would be. But G+ seems to have different goals in being a multitude of things so it has an identity issue about what it actually does. Plus it's still in it's infancy and probably little loss to the bottom line if does fail.
 
Berto said:
You miss the whole point. The key word is PLATFORM, not API.

Facebook created a platform for people to do basically anything on. Farmville and Mafia Wars are just two stupid examples. Nobody ever knew that stuff was going to be created when Facebook's dev platform was launched -- but guess what -- it was, and it massively succeeded.

Google has no such possibilities of this happening on Google+ right now.

But I'll admit I don't have much to say about Google+ because I use Google Apps and they don't let me use it since Google Apps accounts get no Google Profile. I thus refuse to join. How's that for an epic FAIL?

The question these large companies need to be asking - are we creating a PLATFORM to run and expand business from, or just another website/widget.

Google has innovated nothing since Google Maps / Gmail, whichever came last. And don't give me shit about Android, it's such an epic fail of an OS that the turd phones are simply in a race to the bottom.

But Android is at least a platform, unlike Google+. They simply have too many diverging technologies and need to take a step back and pull their shit together (literally and figuratively) before it's too late, like the employee said.
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I'm with you on all those points dude!


I wish companies just got better at what they do... Google search still sucks in some ways, yes Google is great and better than the rest ...

But jeez the Google suggestion boxes are not internationally updated to reflect local suggestions based on current events last time I checked. The news is good but there could be improvements still. The use of local results showing on specific keywords is frustrating in newer niches.

Google is a great example of being at the top, getting idle, going for world dominance and forgetting even the basics with is world dominance. An API is step one of any social application these days.
However I refuse to try it until I see a personal reason that it interests me, up until now it just seems a little boring, much like facebook can often be.
 
Berto said:
And don't give me shit about Android, it's such an epic fail of an OS that the turd phones are simply in a race to the bottom.

But Android is at least a platform, unlike Google+.
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There are many low end roid phones out there, but it is pretty much the first successful open platform that can be used by different mobile manufacturers (not iOS, BB, Window). The high end roid phones are great and so as the new duo core phones that run on Android.
 
andyk said:
There are many low end roid phones out there, but it is pretty much the first successful open platform that can be used by different mobile manufacturers (not iOS, BB, Window). The high end roid phones are great and so as the new duo core phones that run on Android.
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the problem is android really is in a race to the bottom and eventually with all of the fragmentation it is going to limit the more high end stuff (outside of maybe motorola because of the acquisition and the early access / integration that brings) .
 
Facebook was already a giant before they ever created a "platform" or API. I think it was pretty obvious why G+ isn't doing well. Everyone joined and went, "where are the hot chicks?". Once no hot chicks were located, they left. It's the reason why Facebook did so well. They pulled in the college people, and more importantly, girls first before releasing it to the public, and then everyone joined afterwards, so that they could spy on the hot girls all day long. Th platform / API merely made people sink more time into something other than snooping.
 
Rexibit said:
And yet you trust Facebook? They "NEVER" delete your information, they just keep your account archived even after you "delete" it. They even allow the CIA and other government agencies to access people's information to make correlations and watch people.

At least Google has gone on record numerous times to fight such government control.
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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqggW08BWO0]Facebook CIA Project: The Onion News Network - YouTube[/ame]
 
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