{"id":6677,"date":"2012-12-12T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6677"},"modified":"2012-12-12T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:49:07","slug":"googles-lost-social-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/12\/googles-lost-social-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&rsquo;s Lost Social Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/robf4\/googles-lost-social-network\">Rob Fishman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/robf4\/googles-lost-social-network\"><p>In the year since, Google+ has been <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204653604577249341403742390.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories\">derided<\/a> as a &ldquo;virtual ghost town&rdquo; and a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/112678702228711889851\/posts\/eVeouesvaVX\">complete failure<\/a>&rdquo; unpopular even with Google employees. All of which has heightened the resentment shared by Reader fanatics. Today, they are a population dispossessed. Many have disappeared off the grid, while others struggle to rebuild communities that were, with a few keystrokes, deleted. All of them &mdash; the dental student in San Antonio, the academic librarian in Boston, the game developer in San Francisco &mdash; yearn for the scroll-tracked Shangri-La that was.<\/p>\n<p>They wonder why Google deep-sixed superlative features, years in the making, for an upstart social network, a Facebook clone. In the year past, the same question has been framed and phrased in a thousand different ways &mdash; why force an unproven social network on users at the expense of an organic one?<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rob Fishman: In the year since, Google+ has been derided as a &ldquo;virtual ghost town&rdquo; and a &ldquo;complete failure&rdquo; unpopular even with Google employees. All of which has heightened the resentment shared by Reader fanatics. Today, they are a population dispossessed. Many have disappeared off the grid, while others struggle to rebuild communities that were, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,244,96],"class_list":["post-6677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-googlereader","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6678,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6677\/revisions\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}