{"id":42182,"date":"2011-06-29T22:33:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T06:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12612"},"modified":"2011-06-29T22:33:10","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T06:33:10","slug":"google-not-wave-or-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/29\/google-not-wave-or-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+, not Wave or Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with Google+ a little today. Farhad Manjoo <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2298080\/\">no like<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2298080\/\">More Like Google Minus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; First, I don&#8217;t know whom the company thinks it&#8217;s kidding; Google+ is obviously a direct competitor to Facebook. Given the large overlap in functionality, I can&#8217;t imagine that many people will use Google+ and Facebook simultaneously. For most of us, it will be one or the other. Google+&#8217;s success, then, will rest in large part on Google&#8217;s ability to convince people to ditch Facebook for the new site. For that, <strong>Google+ will have to offer some compelling view of social networking that&#8217;s substantially different from what&#8217;s available on Facebook. <\/strong>And that&#8217;s where Google+ baffles me. What is so compelling about Google+ that I can&#8217;t currently get on Facebook or Twitter? Or Gmail, for that matter? At the moment, I can&#8217;t tell&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But circles are nothing new.<strong> Facebook has offered several ways to break your network into smaller chunks for many years now, and it has worked constantly to refine them.<\/strong> And you know what? Almost no one uses those features. Only 5 percent of Facebookers keep &#8220;Lists,&#8221; Facebook&#8217;s first attempt for people to categorize their friends. Recognizing that &#8220;Lists&#8221; weren&#8217;t great, last &#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GeneExpressionBlog\/~4\/8EEppSP4wv0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing around with Google+ a little today. Farhad Manjoo no like, More Like Google Minus:<br \/>\n&#8230; First, I don&#8217;t know whom the company thinks it&#8217;s kidding; Google+ is obviously a direct competitor to Facebook. Given the lar&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[303,1569,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facebook","category-google","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42304,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42182\/revisions\/42304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}