Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the first 1,000 pages"

Re:Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the fir... by suivix on Thursday October 20, 2011 @11:48AM (#3135381)

They aren't new users though. None of them are new to google.com, and most already have Google accounts. They are simply activating another Google service.

It's a whole different thing if you launch a startup like Dropbox and get people to use it.

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Re:Brin on Yegge's post: "I stopped reading it after the fir... by redthrowaway on Thursday October 20, 2011 @03:11PM (#3136382)

So by that metric, if every gmail user used G+ it would still be a failure? If it captured 70% of the online population, it wouldn't be that impressive because those people originally used search?

Wave was a failure, and it had plenty of Docs and Gmail users to draw from. G+ strikes me as a very different beast, and one that has already found its niche. It may not displace facebook, but it certainly seems to have eaten into Twitter's niche.

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