tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667198366772137516.post4354628239762709016..comments2023-09-25T06:55:58.791+00:00Comments on The Casablanca Weblog: Why Google+ has already failedPhil Whitehousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00707058659116319394noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667198366772137516.post-3679806462231674932011-07-11T17:13:55.669+00:002011-07-11T17:13:55.669+00:00i'm with Phil on this one :-)
personally im q...i'm with Phil on this one :-)<br /><br />personally im quite happy for my Facebook only friends.. to stay on facebook. For actual regular use, i don't want a stream of cat / baby / wedding pictures. So a filter platform with no cow clickers is fine. I'll use it much like i would have used wave; for longer running conversations. And of course you can edit your own content too.DEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13468138772103258101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667198366772137516.post-14733049362694966472011-07-11T17:04:51.932+00:002011-07-11T17:04:51.932+00:00Yes, but my point is that Twitter and Facebook lau...Yes, but my point is that Twitter and Facebook launched in an environment which…well…didn't have Twitter and Facebook in them. The conditions for success are far, far more onerous now.<br /><br />Small innovative web apps can grow slowly, improving as time goes by. But when Google launches a direct competitor to Twitter and Facebook, which depends so heavily on the social graph, special conditions need to be met to succeed. It's like a space rocket that needs sufficient momentum to escape the Earth's pull - conditions needed to be perfect at launch to have any chance at all. <br /><br />If they'd given everyone instant access rather than this daft invitation scheme, and made sure the mobile / desktop experience was as good as possible for everyone, they might've stood a chance.<br /><br />That's not to discredit Google on doing a difficult job well. The user experience is very good, but the point I'm trying to make is that a good user experience alone isn't enough - they needed to get their launch strategy right as well. I know it's early to call it a failure, but that's the way I see it right now. I guess time will tell.Phil Whitehousehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00707058659116319394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4667198366772137516.post-24571371676065226542011-07-11T16:39:22.195+00:002011-07-11T16:39:22.195+00:00Wow. Give it a chance!
It had has been in the wil...Wow. Give it a chance!<br /><br />It had has been in the wild for a week. One week! Facebook and Twitter grew significantly more gradually and certainly didn't have such a rich and functional offering after 1 week of being launched. Launching this kind of product on this kind of scale is a massive task and I think they deserve a little more credit.<br /><br />I'm yet to be convinced by Google+, but I think it's a bit early to write it off as a failure. No it doesn't have an iPhone app yet (although Google has built one, and is waiting on Apple to give it the ok in the app store). The Android app is, by all accounts, excellent, and I for one thing that the mobile web app is actually rather well done, so stating that they don't have a mobile offering is, a bit harsh.<br /><br />I'm finding that it gives value to the feature that I wrote off a while ago which is Google's +1 button, and given that Google are so much closer to how I experience the Web than Facebook, I think that the number of integration points that matter to me will gradually grow and grow. I'm seeing signs of excellent integration with lots of Google web products too, which are a big tick for me compared to Facebook's walled garden. Fingers crossed that it opens up to other developers soon.<br /><br />Developer APIs? Yep, bring 'em on, and the sooner the better. But even without them, there is a critical success factor for me: the same reason that I was happy to use GMail for my email and contact management, data liberation. I think that Google are on the right track by making this incredibly obvious and available to users. They have <a href="http://www.dataliberation.org/" rel="nofollow">made this an issue</a> for over a decade.<br /><br />Is it perfect? No. Will it improve? I suspect so. I'd prefer to wait until more users are on it and we see some of the emergent behaviours on what seems to be an elegant and robust platform before I decide whether it is a failure or not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com