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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by _frog on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:11AM (#2321913)
Google seems to be going about creating social products in entirely the wrong way. They seem to prefer forcing people on to their platforms (see Buzz in Gmail) rather than making a product that people actually want to use and spend time on.
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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by ThomPete on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:23AM (#2321924)
Or integrate it incrementally one step at a time without any disturbance to those who don't use it.

I never really understood googles approach to these things.

Look at Wave. Why did I need a specific wave mail, why couldn't they just integrate with my gmail and again those who can use it great, those who can't no biggie.

So much engineering power yet so little design skills.

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Re:All private Google Profiles will be deleted after July 31... by antihero on Monday March 14, 2011 @06:36AM (#2321953)
I think they're trying to go for that "difficult to stomach wisdom" thing that annoys us all so much.
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