{"id":42280,"date":"2011-07-04T14:29:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=12676"},"modified":"2011-07-04T14:29:04","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T22:29:04","slug":"circles-are-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/07\/04\/circles-are-for-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Circles are for real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/07\/04\/google-circles-knockoff-hits-facebook-courtesy-of-unofficial-plu\/\">Google Circles knockoff hits Facebook courtesy of unofficial plug-in<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;Circle Hack is a self-described &#8220;one-night experiment with Javascript&#8221; created by a few Facebook engineers in a non-affiliated capacity, which unofficially brings Google Circles-like functionality to the top social network. The creators of the Facebook plug-in have borrowed liberally from Google on this one (turnabout is fair play, perhaps)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is great. At a minimum Google+ could become like the Chrome browser. It might not attain a dominant market share position (though Chrome already has a higher share than IE on this site, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/browsers\/browsers_stats.asp\">others<\/a>, with a tech-savvy audience), <b>but it could push the edge of innovation.<\/b> I don&#8217;t have a problem with Facebook, but with the collapse of MySpace years ago it has had a de facto monopoly in the general social networking space.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, an anecdatum: <b>a friend noticed that six of his contacts deactivated their Facebook accounts in the past few days.<\/b> He didn&#8217;t know why, but there&#8217;s a high probability that these may be the types who just want to start over like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/ezra-klein\/post\/why-google-might-succeed\/2011\/05\/19\/AG7Di9rH_blog.html\">Ezra Klein<\/a> suggested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Circles knockoff hits Facebook courtesy of unofficial plug-in:<br \/>\n&#8230;Circle Hack is a self-described &#8220;one-night experiment with Javascript&#8221; created by a few Facebook engineers in a non-affiliated capacity, which unofficially brings &#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-42280","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\/42280","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=42280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42429,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42280\/revisions\/42429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}