{"id":8748,"date":"2014-04-26T20:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8748"},"modified":"2014-04-26T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T00:00:26","slug":"google-to-end-forced-g-integration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/26\/google-to-end-forced-g-integration\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to End Forced G+ Integration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/04\/report-google-to-end-forced-g-integration-drastically-cut-division-resources\/\">Ron Amadeo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2014\/04\/report-google-to-end-forced-g-integration-drastically-cut-division-resources\/\"><p>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&rsquo;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&mdash;many of which formed the core of Google+&mdash;will be moved to other divisions. Google Hangouts will supposedly be moved to Android, and the Google+ photos team is &ldquo;likely&rdquo; to follow. &ldquo;Basically, talent will be shifting away from the Google+ kingdom and towards Android as a platform,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;t seem like the best fit.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron Amadeo: 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&rsquo;s mission to force Google+ into every product will end. With this downgrade in importance comes a downgrade in resources. [&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":[25,51,870,49],"class_list":["post-8748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-google-plus","tag-twitter"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748","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=8748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}