bonch

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by bonch 15y ago
On the other side of the coin, I see it as a cynical marketing move specifically designed to appeal to nostalgia create the very impression you had, that they "maintain a sense of fun and a corporate attitude that allows fun hacks to make i
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by bonch 15y ago
People who think they're making some kind of statement by refusing to state their gender.
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by bonch 15y ago
Buzz also gained millions of users in a short period of time.
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by bonch 15y ago
Buzz also had millions of users.
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by bonch 15y ago
Sorry, but nobody cares what the people in your room think.
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by bonch 15y ago
You're comparing becoming a citizen in a foreign country to signing up with a social network? There are a hell of a lot more barriers to becoming a foreign citizen, such as physical location, than signing up for a social network and giving
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by bonch 15y ago
The transition is made in the first sentence of the third paragraph: "The problem with this rationale, however rosy it may seem, is that you’re simply moving from one internet juggernaut to another." He first explained the pros of Google+ a
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by bonch 15y ago
Yes, but since sites like Hacker News have been dutifully advertising Google+ non-stop since it came out, Google can release non-news and have it covered like it's news.
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by bonch 15y ago
Hacker News has become an unpaid arm of Google's marketing department. Mainstream users don't care about Google+, if they've even heard of it.
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by bonch 15y ago
Believe it or not, it is possible for Facebook to be lean and agile yet produce a less than compelling response to circles. Google's internal process has also been criticized before by other former employees, such as the infamous color surv
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by bonch 15y ago
I think Google+ will be a social network for techie hipsters and other early adopters seeking a Facebook alternative, but the novelty will wear off, and the mainstream will barely notice. Just my initial impression. There isn't a compelling
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by bonch 15y ago
As this article ( http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq ) pointed out: [T]wo days after Buzz went live, Google posted a blog entry bragging that "tens of millions" of people had checked it out, and created more than 9 million posts and comments. At s
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by bonch 15y ago
Google Buzz also had "tens of millions" of people: http://tinyurl.com/64fhwdq
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by bonch 15y ago
What you overheard in the park today is hardly evidence of some kind of trend. Google+ isn't even open to signups yet and is on an invite-only basis, used mostly by celebrity bloggers and other tech personalities who think every new social
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by bonch 15y ago
Google+'s goal is to index user data for advertisers, the same as the goal of every other Google product, from the search engine to Gmail.
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by bonch 15y ago
Twitter? Hell, look at Hacker News' constant stream of Google+ submissions. It's just like when Wave came out. You heard about it constantly.
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by bonch 15y ago
Not necessarily. iOS already surpasses Android in mobile OS market share, and Android isn't making any inroads into tablets and other mobile computing devices, which will probably be the bigger market than smartphones.
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by bonch 15y ago
Granted, it's a figure from Apple, but at WWDC, they touted iOS as having 44% mobile OS market compared to Android's 28%.
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by bonch 15y ago
Isn't it odd how the media always compares an entire operating system platform to one phone? When iPads and iPod touches are counted, iOS far surpasses Android. It's weird for them not to count mobile operating systems as a whole and instea
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by bonch 15y ago
"A lot more social" is pretty vague.
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by bonch 15y ago
What a terrible headline. It's indicative of the poor state of science reporting.
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by bonch 15y ago
Only trendy bloggers even know or care about Google+ right now.
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by bonch 15y ago
You and I know that, but the purpose of the poll isn't to be accurate--it's to advertise Google+ on social news sites like HN.
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by bonch 15y ago
Whew! For a second, I thought we'd have a day without another endless series of Google+ advertisements--er, links.
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by bonch 15y ago
Definitely needed yet another Google+ link on the front page.
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by bonch 15y ago
Half the HN front page, as of this writing, is Google links.
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by bonch 15y ago
Hey, Zed, can you tell us all how much we're losers because we don't get as many blog post hits as you? The irony was a big hit last time.
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by bonch 15y ago
I’m saddened by the number of grown men I meet who worship guys like the persona found in this rant. Too frequently men (especially younger men) will by default listen to whoever “talks tough” rather than the people who make the most reaso
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by bonch 15y ago
I don't get it. Isn't anyone else as creeped-out by the idea of a Google social network as I am? For the most part, only social networking techies are praising this thing. The last thing I want to do is give Google even more of my informa
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by bonch 15y ago
Just not interested in Google+. It was enough of a struggle to coax me onto Twitter and Facebook. I don't hear non-techies talking about Google+--it's all dedicated bloggers and people in the "Twittersphere" (ugh). Not to mention that I hea

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