Re:Bradley Horowitz Is Now Running Google+
by magicalist on Monday March 02, 2015 @05:45AM
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> how Google+ could have leveraged their massive Google Reader user base
Well, let's put "massive" in quotes. It could have been a boost of influential people had it worked (well, some tech bloggers and HN users, but still), but let's not kid ourselves about "massive".
Second:
> Yes, just that simple…make it so that you could follow an RSS feed as though it were another user in G+. Make it so that you could put RSS feeds into circles, and share them, just like you do with other G+ users.
If you had taken Reader and replaced it with this it would have infuriated me at the time, and would have been been the same result as far as I would have been concerned: Reader would be dead. This would not have worked.
Well, let's put "massive" in quotes. It could have been a boost of influential people had it worked (well, some tech bloggers and HN users, but still), but let's not kid ourselves about "massive".
Second:
> Yes, just that simple…make it so that you could follow an RSS feed as though it were another user in G+. Make it so that you could put RSS feeds into circles, and share them, just like you do with other G+ users.
If you had taken Reader and replaced it with this it would have infuriated me at the time, and would have been been the same result as far as I would have been concerned: Reader would be dead. This would not have worked.