Blast from the G+ Past
Blast from the G+ Past This album was created on G+ by Google, from photos included in my Blogger blog posts from 2006 through 2011. When I posted this album on August 29, 2011 I had 3403 contacts and the post received 90 +1s and over 30 shares. G+ was truly a vibrant community then. Yesterday with over 2,000,000 contacts, ranked #52 on G+ among individuals in the U.S. by CircleCount ( http://www.circlecount.com/p/+JeffreySullivan? ), most active post had 42 +1s and no post had more than 1 share. Yesterday on Facebook, Robert Scoble said, "When I speak around the world I ask people what social networks they use. Nearly no one is on Google+. Google finally is realizing they lost. I don't see good things ahead for Google+." Having invested a chunk of my life to the community, to the platform, I hope that Yonatan Zunger and the Google engineering teams can resurrect G+, but I don't think that the core strategic problems or resolutions lie with YouTube or other Goog...