If you're checking this blog, you're probably aware I'm not too great on updating it these days!
Instead, I'm doing some RPG blogging over at gnumerousgnomes.com.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Monday, November 21, 2011
Dear Google: Why I'm not on G+ as much as I used to be.
You done screwed up, Google!
You ripped out the social features of Google Reader to drive Sharebros like me to G+, but you know what? I moved my feed reading to NewsBlur in disgust, and a quick search shows me I'm not the only one who looked for an alternative. I even paid NewBlur for a subscription to unlock a couple features -- which, btw, I'd have happily paid for Reader before you busted its kneecaps. Now I come to G+ less because I no longer have the black bar across the top of my screen that gives me notifications on the site I spend a vast majority of my browsing time on.
Technically, visually, G+ provides a superior experience to Facebook in my opinion. Google still seems to get the 'Less is More' philosophy that got it to where it is today, and hopefully G+ will never approach Facebook's level of baroque cruft. The G+ team seems thoughtful in how they implement features and I hope they keep on that track because it's G+ killer feature, for now.
Very few of my Facebook friends made accounts here and only a small percentage of them use their accounts regularly. I mostly come to G+ to read personalities such as Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis because I have very few 'friends' here. The RL friends I sold on Google Reader didn't make G+ accounts because you alienated them with the way you handled the changes to Reader. One moved their feed reading to Netvibes and another, I assume, is still on Reader because I don't get to see them often offline.
Reader was a social network, there's room for more than one type of social network, even inside the same company. It seems, however, that you were too interested in chasing Facebook's taillights to accept that, or that there's room for more than one type of social network, even inside the same company.
I once owned a dog that would chase taillights. I hope you learn the lesson they didn't.
You ripped out the social features of Google Reader to drive Sharebros like me to G+, but you know what? I moved my feed reading to NewsBlur in disgust, and a quick search shows me I'm not the only one who looked for an alternative. I even paid NewBlur for a subscription to unlock a couple features -- which, btw, I'd have happily paid for Reader before you busted its kneecaps. Now I come to G+ less because I no longer have the black bar across the top of my screen that gives me notifications on the site I spend a vast majority of my browsing time on.
Technically, visually, G+ provides a superior experience to Facebook in my opinion. Google still seems to get the 'Less is More' philosophy that got it to where it is today, and hopefully G+ will never approach Facebook's level of baroque cruft. The G+ team seems thoughtful in how they implement features and I hope they keep on that track because it's G+ killer feature, for now.
Very few of my Facebook friends made accounts here and only a small percentage of them use their accounts regularly. I mostly come to G+ to read personalities such as Robert Scoble and Jason Calacanis because I have very few 'friends' here. The RL friends I sold on Google Reader didn't make G+ accounts because you alienated them with the way you handled the changes to Reader. One moved their feed reading to Netvibes and another, I assume, is still on Reader because I don't get to see them often offline.
Reader was a social network, there's room for more than one type of social network, even inside the same company. It seems, however, that you were too interested in chasing Facebook's taillights to accept that, or that there's room for more than one type of social network, even inside the same company.
I once owned a dog that would chase taillights. I hope you learn the lesson they didn't.
Monday, October 31, 2011
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