Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by nostrademons on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @02:52PM
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Curiously, I've heard that FaceBook also started by forcing an account on everyone - Zuckerburg scraped the online student database so that everyone at Harvard automatically had a FaceBook account. (Or rather, he scraped it for FaceMash and then used the data again to start FaceBook.)
You can get away with a lot more when you're a college student project than when you're a multi-billion-$ corporation.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by rhc2104 on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @04:24PM
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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2004/2/9/hundreds-register...
It does not seem like the Facemash data was reused for thefacebook.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by nrbafna on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:30PM
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It is different. Buzz was forced on to anyone who logged into Gmail.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by daralthus on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @03:18PM
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Still I am curious, what circles would I get based on all the data google has ever collected from me.
Re:Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
by groby_b on Tuesday June 28, 2011 @08:50PM
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As far as I can tell, none. See here: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...
Page 6, specifically: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2011/06/inside-google-plus-so...
There's a pretty wide gulf between opening up and forcing it on people. You can't build a social networking sites if it isn't open to people in your users' social networks. But you also can't build a site people trust and want to use by forcing it on them.