Early Google+ influencers remember the network's early glory days, and what led to its eventual demise.
Early Google+ influencers remember the network's early glory days, and what led to its eventual demise.
A discussion on Cake led by Trey Ratcliff
https://www.cake.co/conversations/gpCv10p/early-google-influencers-remember-the-network-s-early-glory-days-and-what-led-to-its-eventual-demise
A discussion on Cake led by Trey Ratcliff
https://www.cake.co/conversations/gpCv10p/early-google-influencers-remember-the-network-s-early-glory-days-and-what-led-to-its-eventual-demise
Fantastic thread! Knowing several of those on the panel brings all this home.
ReplyDeleteAwesome. #pinned
ReplyDeletewhat killed it was the Nym Wars ... the line in this that grated me "It's also interesting to look at the growth of the network from the beginning of 2011 to the end of 2013. And these were all real people, ..." the fucking real names policy that they implemented is what put a stake through the heart of a really really glorious dream ... I am still angry about that whole nonsense ;-/
ReplyDeleteFor another take on lessons from G+ see:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.intercom.com/blog/what-we-can-learn-from-google-plus/
intercom.com - 8 product lessons we can learn from Google+ - Inside Intercom
Interesting to see this historical context, but it left me feeling uneasy. It seems to be about the experience of taking the world by storm, and if that can't be done, move on to something else. Like the 8 lessons article says "Build around people problems, not company problems," Life is Messy, and Be Patient it takes time to evolve, and the other lessons. G+'s decline seems to relate to not learning these lessons.
ReplyDeleteBill Brayman My primary intent with both the Cake and Intercom reminiscences is to learn from history and feed to lessons forward.
ReplyDeleteI see a fair bit of self-serving delusion in the Cake thread, sober reflection at Intercom.
Not sure if this is relevant or not. If you work through that list of 2011 Tech Influencers and try and find them now. You'll see a few of them on Facebook and Twitter, often with no posts for a year or two. But you probably won't find any of them on platforms like Mastodon or Diaspora.
ReplyDeleteRather too many in there that have fallen from grace since then as well.
Julian Bond There aare any number of people who've dropped off the Web. Clay Shirky comes to mind.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it's a phase you go through.
https://twitter.com/cshirky still posting. As well as the ones that went quiet, were the ones that everyone followed but never did post in the first place.
ReplyDeletetwitter.com - Clay Shirky (@cshirky) | Twitter
Julian Bond But not blogging much at all.
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