2. Yes, Zuckerberg managed to avoid technical errors and tarpits, mostly, to get there.
3. No, the "Lockdown" thing had little to do with it. If anything it may well have been counterproductive.
4. God what a horribly written, horribly analysed piece of glurge this is.
5. Harvard.
6. Google shot themselves in the foot. Repeatedly. With tremendous technical ability. With tremendous effect. Taking a service I wanted to like, wanted to find useful, and wanted to support, and uttershly gobshiting it.
Put the blame squarely at the feet of Vic Gundotra. And more squarely: at the feet of Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt. The rot does straight to the top. All four men did a tremendous disservice to Google, torpedoed massive amounts of brand equity and consumer trust, and have done very, very, very little to redeem it.
I've dug at G+, critiqued it, analysed it, and compared it with other alternatives. All in the hopes of finding a decent goddamned place for intelligent conversation online.
Hell if I know where it's at.
(HN is a small piece, but only a small piece, and not without its own major faults.)
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