Razib Khan

Category: Google

  • The reign of {{{Sundar Pichai}}}

    Where Will Sundar Pichai Take Google?: There were louder executives at Google. There were brainier ones. There were more aggressive ones and those who were doubtlessly better at throwing a sharp elbow, too. And many more political ones — even if those who have been running one of the world’s most powerful companies continued to…

  • Google+ bombs

    Google+ Lags Far Behind Facebook, Twitter and MySpace in Latest Study: Google+ became the fastest growing social network within months of its debut last June, but a recent study casts doubt on whether most of its users are spending much time on the site. According to ComScore, users spent an average of just 3.3 minutes…

  • Google+, very different from Facebook

    TechCrunch has a post up on the declining public usage of Google+. It’s been several months since I’ve been “using” Google+. I put usage in quotes because I am not a big active poster on twitter, Facebook, or Google+. But I do participate passively a fair amount. At this point for me I can say…

  • Real life interaction is a feature, not a bug

    The prince of neurobloggers Jonah Lehrer has a good if curious column up at the Wall Street Journal, Social Networks Can’t Replace Socializing. He concludes: This doesn’t mean that we should stop socializing on the web. But it does suggest …

  • ~1 month into the new social network order

    I am only being added to Google+ “circles” at a clip of half a dozen per day. This is off the peak of nearly 20 or so per day a little over a week ago. I’m now at nearly 500 people in my Google circles, though only 5 were individuals …

  • Google+ is not Buzz or Wave reprised

    Over the past few weeks I’ve seen several media stories profiling the rise of Google+ by noting that hoopla also greeted Google Wave and Google Buzz before their expiration as “It” technologies. This caveat was probably more true for …

  • Google+ observations

    – I have invited 5 people to the service (as per their requests). And yet I have 163 people in my circles. Right now the rate of people adding me to their circles is increasing. – At least half the people I don’t even recognize at all. Most of t…

  • Google+ vs. Facebook: browser wars part 2?

    There’s an amusing story up at The New York Times on the activity surrounding Mark Zuckerberg’s Google+ account. Zuckerberg is of course just scoping out the competition. Here’s the heartening part: So far, Google’s new social serv…

  • Circles are for real!

    Google Circles knockoff hits Facebook courtesy of unofficial plug-in: …Circle Hack is a self-described “one-night experiment with Javascript” created by a few Facebook engineers in a non-affiliated capacity, which unofficially brings …

  • Google+ 2 days

    Google+ for the Blogger and Researcher: After a couple days of playing with it, I haven’t quite identified what it is for, or at least how I’m going to use it differently from twitter or facebook, but so far I am generally impressed –…

  • Google+, not Wave or Buzz

    I’ve been playing around with Google+ a little today. Farhad Manjoo no like, More Like Google Minus: … First, I don’t know whom the company thinks it’s kidding; Google+ is obviously a direct competitor to Facebook. Given the lar…

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