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#19, #22, #24 win.
I need to start a Tumblr for people who think that everything on the internet should be free.
Entitled generation is entitled.
georgeathan replied to your photo: Initial thoughts on Google+ It suffers from…
How can you say Google wave wasn’t innovative enough? It was the only thing of it’s kind.
Though it may have been innovative, Google Wave was a poorly-designed and entirely unusable product.
patrickmind asked: Hi,
i read your note about Google+, and it's really interesting, but I think that project has a huge potential to beat facebook.
And, do you have any invitations to Google+ project? I really want to try out that.
Have a nice day,
Patrick
It’s too early to tell. From what I can tell, Google+ is a better product. But internet history will tell us that better products don’t always win. Innovative and wildly different products do. Do I think Google+ fits in that realm? Not really. Circles, Sparks, and Hangouts are actually pretty great Google+ features, but are they enough to pull people over from Facebook? Not really sure. And in order for me to get a better idea of how this will pan out, I need to see the mobile version.
I don’t think I have any invites. According to my friend at Google, this appears to be a very limited beta.
It suffers from what these other recent Google products (Buzz, Wave) have suffered from: it doesn’t truly innovate and it doesn’t do enough to differentiate itself from the products it’s trying to compete with.
Something I’ve been saying all along is that the product that beats Facebook will look nothing like Facebook on the web and it will beat Facebook where they aren’t strong, namely mobile. The web version of Google+ looks nice, but it’s way too much of the same old shit. The jury is still out on mobile (I have an iPhone), but if Google+ can exploit mobile better than Facebook, then they ought to throw their big guns at this platform, rather than the web.
If I were Google, I may have scrapped the web version altogether, or rather brought it in later. It’s too distracting and too many people will measure its success on the web version, rather than the mobile version. As a mobile social network, Google+ could succeed. Not so sure its current iteration on the web has a chance.
Dear Google,
It took me 20 minutes to find out how to add a public Google Calendar to my own. I actually had to Google it. Then I found some obscure instructions that didn’t help at all. Then I stared at the public calendar for 10 more minutes until I found that shit button at the bottom right-hand corner.
This is why you’re losing right now.
Sincerely,
Rommy
I love that I did a Google image search for “poutine” and got two images of Putin.
My Google Reader stats. Interesting.
Now back to your regularly scheduled Tumblr feed.
