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Re:Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than y... by davidgerard on Sunday November 17, 2013 @05:14AM (#6748322)
HN is legendarily an inward-focused bunch of SV startup-wannabe brogrammers, but it's also a pretty reliable weathervane for where hot technology is heading in the next year or two. And what companies have lost it in the eyes of the very smartest technologists.
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Re:Ask HN: Google employees, why is G+ more important than y... by magicalist on Sunday November 17, 2013 @06:57AM (#6748548)
> but it's also a pretty reliable weathervane for where hot technology is heading in the next year or two

I have seen very little actual evidence of this, unless we're talking tautological, "all the predictions that came true came true, just ignore the rest", weathervanes. Still waiting on those social-network-based search engines to reign supreme...

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