Google Engineer Calls Google+ a forgotten memory

[toadzilla]

im sure there was a lot of you who thought when google+ first launched it would be the one to make facebook look like myspace, but it turned out not to be all that  it was claimed to be so last night one of the google engineers by the name of Steve Yegge  accidentally posted a note that was supposed to be internal public for the world to see on his public profile and lets jsut say it rips google+ plus in to shreads saying stuff like

Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it. The Golden Rule of platforms is that you Eat Your Own Dogfood. The Google+ platform is a pathetic afterthought. We had no API at all at launch, and last I checked, we had one measly API call.

even calling facebooks platform better at one point

Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work. So Facebook is different for everyone. Some people spend all their time on Mafia Wars. Some spend all their time on Farmville. There are hundreds or maybe thousands of different high-quality time sinks available, so there's something there for everyone.

Our Google+ team took a look at the aftermarket and said: "Gosh, it looks like we need some games. Let's go contract someone to, um, write some games for us." Do you begin to see how incredibly wrong that thinking is now?

for the whole rant which was taken down by him and not by googles pr but posted eveyrwhere read here https://plus.google.com/112678702228711889851/posts/eVeouesvaVX

[PsychoticWolf]

Bawhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. On a Side Note. I love Google+

[robin1989]

lol that funny - i really like google plus's interface but the timeline needs a bit more polish and they need a way to import your facebook contacts as the main reason i barely use g+ is because not many people i know are on it

[toadzilla]

lol that funny - i really like google plus's interface but the timeline needs a bit more polish and they need a way to import your facebook contacts as the main reason i barely use g+ is because not many people i know are on it

i spent the 30 mins it took to read that 4000 word rant i gotta say its amazing at how bad he disses both amazon and google and what he says hits it right on the spot

[Tracey]

im sure there was a lot of you who thought when google+ first launched it would be the one to make facebook look like myspace

..nope, FB needs no help turning itself into myspace. Did you see F8? FB is about to look almost identical to myspace..very unfortunate.


Customizing profiles is just the beginning, isnt that why we all bailed on myspace because every tom, and harry had so many images/pics/music crap all over their pages it took forever to load so it wasnt even worth visiting your friends profiles....and then came the BOTS! Myspace seriously should just start marketing as a porn/dating site because thats all it is.. so, after the FB update is complete, it may make or break it and be what boost google+ needs and everyone just may migrate over there like the previous myspace to FB cycle. I hope not, but we shall see.

[jrfhoutx]

..nope, FB needs no help turning itself into myspace. Did you see F8? FB is about to look almost identical to myspace..very unfortunate.


Customizing profiles is just the beginning, isnt that why we all bailed on myspace because every tom, and harry had so many images/pics/music crap all over their pages it took forever to load so it wasnt even worth visiting your friends profiles....and then came the BOTS! Myspace seriously should just start marketing as a porn/dating site because thats all it is.. so, after the FB update is complete, it may make or break it and be what boost google+ needs and everyone just may migrate over there like the previous myspace to FB cycle. I hope not, but we shall see.

^this... also, it's way too time consuming, people just post garbage now, sifting through a timeline full of crap reposts and farmville/mafia wars progress updates and foursquare location updates is aggravating as hell. it's the same thing with twitter, overuse and oversharing kills it, hence why I never look at that crap anymore, I don't have an hour a day to sift through all that crap, so I don't.