Re:Hacker News Google+ Community
by salimmadjd on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:39AM
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This is probably an internal strategy by google to try increase g+ engagement. Create these social groups on g+ that already have strong community behind them. The thinking is that on g+ things like photography, and geek related could become a beachhead community for them and they can use that as the foundation to build up additional communities to drive up engagement.
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Ya think? :-) Actually while its clearly an attempt to get more people using G+ on a deeper level, as a replacement for Groups its showing possibilities. I wish the editor in G+ was a bit more full featured. Maybe not full on Buzz but would love to be able to do better hyper links with it.
It is interesting to contrast the feel of that to the feel of this site.
Re:Hacker News Google+ Community
by ichirotherager on Friday December 07, 2012 @11:43AM
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That never really took off in Google Groups, but that didn't really have the social structure around it that Google+ does. I wonder if the second time's a charm for them.