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computer parts: Nov 18, 2010; PLEASE CLAP

Caged posted:

According to two sources, Google has apparently been reshuffling the teams that used to form the core of Google+, a group numbering between 1,000 and 1,200 employees.

lmao what a horrendous waste of human life

so with six figure salaries that's a minimum of 100 million every year?

# ? Apr 25, 2014 00:58

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:40

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

twelve hundred people, working full time on a product people only interact with when they are forced to by google bundling another product in with it. thats like one fifth of the total facebook employees.

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:02

fits my needs: Jan 1, 2011; Grimey Drawer

what were all these fuckers even working on. BURST ALREADY TECH BUBBLE TO START THE PAIN TRAIN.

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:04

pram: Jun 10, 2001

google+ interface is really loving bad

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:05

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

the op watched eric schmidt gently caress his entire family from behind with his candelabra cock and then garrote them all simultaneously with one giant piano wire

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:05

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

Smythe posted:

the op watched eric schmidt gently caress his entire family from behind with his candelabra cock and then garrote them all simultaneously with one giant piano wire

the aristocrats!

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:06

Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

pram posted:

google+ interface is really loving bad

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:08

MeruFM: Jul 27, 2010

cremnob posted:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/04/24/google-is-walking-dead/

techcrunch has the deets

comments seem to say otherwise gG+ is alive and well

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:10

cremnob: Jun 30, 2010

quote:

We�ve heard that the acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook may have been a factor in the phasing out of Gundotra�s grand experiment. There was a perception that Google had missed the �biggest acquisition in the social space.� Though another source tells us that Google knew what was up with WhatsApp but simply didn�t want to pay out for it.

everything is primed and ready for google to start making value destroying acquisitions. they just got a new class of shares that wont decrease eric, larry, and sergay's voting control if they start issuing for big buys so they're gonna be amped to open up the wallet. im so fuckin hard :flashfap:

# ? Apr 25, 2014 01:17

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

quote:

One big change for Google+ is that there will no longer be a policy of �required� Google+ integrations for Google products

quote:

That doesn�t mean that all G+ integrations will go away, though. Gmail will continue to have it

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:09

pram: Jun 10, 2001

i deleted my google+ profile and it didnt effect gmail??

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:10

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

MeruFM posted:

comments seem to say otherwise gG+ is alive and well

holy poo poo wow yeah caught a glimpse of the comments, unironic google+ supporters seriously wtf

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:10

Fuzzy Mammal: Aug 15, 2001; Lipstick Apathy

movin to android woo. maybe i'll be able to see the android source finally lol

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:25

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

marry Apple kill Microsoft

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:31

spongeh: Mar 22, 2009; BREADAGRAM OF PROTECTION

google+ photos is the only nice thing about google+. i'm glad they're going to continue to innovate in other ways instead of letting their offerings stagnate like mobileme. mobilefail if you ask me, imo.

# ? Apr 25, 2014 02:52

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

PipeRifle posted:

literally tried to onboard the entire team to Google Wave

wave was great

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:19

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

google bring back wave and i will take back everything bad i ever said about any google product

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:19

Kirk: Sep 22, 2003

i'm starting a social network based on irc. its going to have everyone. if your a freenode freak or an efnet enthusiast its all gonna be there for u. reconnect with lost irc buddies. share quotes and warez. ping friends. it's all waiting for you on irc-u

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:24

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

quote:

internally, it's more like a drastic scaling-down of the social network, which at one point was deemed so important to the company that every employee's yearly bonus was tied to Google's success in social.

even when it was alive g+ was a cost cutting measure

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:43

flakeloaf: Feb 26, 2003; Still better than android clock

Kirk posted:

i'm starting a social network based on irc. its going to have everyone. if your a freenode freak or an efnet enthusiast its all gonna be there for u. reconnect with lost irc buddies. share quotes and warez. ping friends. it's all waiting for you on irc-u

glined

the g stands for g+

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:44

Duscat: Jan 4, 2009; Fun Shoe

FAST FORWARD TO THIS

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:45

Cygni: Nov 12, 2005; raring to post

Kirk posted:

i'm starting a social network based on irc. its going to have everyone. if your a freenode freak or an efnet enthusiast its all gonna be there for u. reconnect with lost irc buddies. share quotes and warez. ping friends. it's all waiting for you on irc-u

< Message:[F-serve active! Type "!killme" for access! Unlimited leech! Sharing thousands of hot hot soul crushing pics of your ex significant others in deep relationships with other people, your racist uncle implying Obama was born in North Korea, and a literal neverending supply of engagement and baby pictures to make you feel even more alone!] - SysReset2.45

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:55

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

i use google+ partially because nobody else does

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:56

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

i'd probably have, like, all of the followers if i posted publicaly

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:56

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

but i don't because lol gently caress that noise ~continues screaming into the void~

# ? Apr 25, 2014 03:57

cremnob: Jun 30, 2010

google killed google reader for this lmao

# ? Apr 25, 2014 05:45

duTrieux.: Oct 9, 2003

hey

hey google

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:24

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

i managed to avoid g+ entirely thus far, i hope it dies before I ever have to see it

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:38

Socracheese: Oct 20, 2008

g+ will stay alive forever

it's google's bet that facebook will catastrophically collapse at some point and they'll mop up some fleeing users

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:42

Miley Virus: Apr 9, 2010

Caged posted:

According to two sources, Google has apparently been reshuffling the teams that used to form the core of Google+, a group numbering between 1,000 and 1,200 employees.

lmao what a horrendous waste of human life

how the gently caress

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:49

Socracheese: Oct 20, 2008

i would imagine its 50 ppl doing the actual work and 1150 ppl going "i'll start the wiki"

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:52

Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

and don't forget the one guy who implements some kind of mlp poo poo into it.

# ? Apr 25, 2014 06:56

Miley Virus: Apr 9, 2010

like at that point don't extra personnel just become wasteful if not completely detrimental

# ? Apr 25, 2014 07:01

Thanks Ants: May 21, 2004; #essereFerrari

probably 900 of them are 'community advocates' or 'platform evangelists' or some bs like that getting paid gently caress all but get to enjoy the ballpit once in a while

# ? Apr 25, 2014 10:16

Metrication: Dec 12, 2010; Raskin had one problem: Jobs regarded him as an insufferable theorist or, to use Jobs's own more precise terminology, "a shithead who sucks".

quote:

When Vic Gundotra, the head of Google+, suddenly announced his departure from Google today, many were left wondering "why" and what it meant for the future of Google+. He didn't give a reason for leaving, but according to a report from TechCrunch, the likely reason is a major shakeup for Google's social network.

In short, Google seems to be backing away from the original Google+ strategy. The report states that Google+ will no longer be considered a product that competes with Facebook and Twitter, and that Google's mission to force Google+ into every product will end. With this downgrade in importance comes a downgrade in resources. TechCrunch claims that 1000-1200 employees�many of which formed the core of Google+�will be moved to other divisions. Google Hangouts will supposedly be moved to Android, and the Google+ photos team is "likely" to follow. "Basically, talent will be shifting away from the Google+ kingdom and towards Android as a platform," the report said. The strange part is that both of these teams create cross-platform products. So if the report is true, there will be a group inside the Android team making iOS and Web apps, which doesn't seem like the best fit.

A Google spokesperson gave Ars the same statement the company gave TechCrunch: �Today�s news has no impact on our Google+ strategy�we have an incredibly talented team that will continue to build great user experiences across Google+, Hangouts, and Photos.� On Gundotra's announcement post, Larry Page wrote "we�ll continue working hard to build great new experiences for the ever-increasing number of Google+ fans."
Despite Google's denial, it makes sense for the company to back away from Google+. The social network hasn't gained the massive userbase it would need to rival Facebook, and the aggressive integration strategy has been universally hated by users. As Google gets bigger and bigger, it faces harsher scrutiny, and few things the company has done have been more disliked than Google+. According to the report, Google+'s YouTube takeover was seen as "a rocky move" even inside the company.

It also makes sense for this to be the reason for Gundotra leaving. Google+ was his baby, and when pet projects like this get canceled or don't go well, it's typical for the company and the employee to part ways (See: Forstall, Scott).

It's unclear what the future of Google+ would be, and the report says that Google itself isn't even sure what to do with the rest of the Google+ team members. TechCrunch says that G+ is not officially dead, but with Gundotra gone and the resources being stripped away, the project seems more like the "walking dead." We imagine that internally, it's more like a drastic scaling-down of the social network, which at one point was deemed so important to the company that every employee's yearly bonus was tied to Google's success in social.

If the report proves true, we'll no doubt see the effects of this shortly. As a brand, Google+ is about at toxic as you can get. Any mention of the service getting close to a Google product usually results in instant rage among the denizens of the Internet. So while the identity, photo, and chat services will stick around, we'll start to see the G+ brand downplayed as much as possible. If the Google+ division really is being shut down and parted out to the rest of the company, will you miss it?

scroogled again !!

# ? Apr 25, 2014 10:20

Max Facetime: Apr 18, 2009

a lot of Linux devs post on g+

# ? Apr 25, 2014 11:47

Max Facetime: Apr 18, 2009

like linus Torvalds posts about his cat on g+

# ? Apr 25, 2014 11:48

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

i hope this means youtube will stop hassling me about changing my account

# ? Apr 25, 2014 11:59

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

Max Facetime posted:

a lot of Linux devs post on g+

this is the only reason i use g+

when it goes away they'll probably switch to some Planet aggregator and i'll be none the wiser except my browser's own scrollbars will actually work again

# ? Apr 25, 2014 12:21

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# ? Apr 25, 2024 06:40

SO DEMANDING: Dec 27, 2003

Socracheese posted:

i would imagine its 50 ppl doing the actual work and 1150 ppl going "i'll start the wiki"

50 people doing actual work, 1150 finding and banning people who didnt sign up with their real name

# ? Apr 25, 2014 13:22

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