{"id":15432,"date":"2011-08-24T14:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=15432"},"modified":"2011-08-24T14:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T12:59:39","slug":"on-how-google-will-succeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/24\/on-how-google-will-succeed\/","title":{"rendered":"On how Google+ will succeed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Next Web blog runs a piece by Tom Anderson<\/a> in which he explains why Google+ is not at all a failure many journalists paint it to be. \u00a0It’s quite interesting really, I do agree with a lot of it.<\/p>\n

While perhaps all social networks need to capture subgroups of people to chew away at the core of more dominant players, Google\u2019s massive scale \u2014 both the attention the brand receives \u2014 and the domains it owns: google.com, youtube.com, blogger.com, and gmail.com \u2014 have given Google a weapon no one else has: the power of attrition, via that little black bar and red notification. The constant reminder this black bar\/red notification provides, means that Google+ doesn\u2019t need to have high engagement numbers from all its users in the beginning. Day by day, one key person after another will find that they enjoy the G+ platform more than its competitors. They\u2019ll start posting and then the ball starts rolling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

The Next Web blog runs a piece by Tom Anderson in which he explains why Google+ is not at all a failure many journalists paint it to be. \u00a0It’s quite interesting really, I do agree with a lot of it. While perhaps all social networks need to capture subgroups of people to chew away at … Continue reading On how Google+ will succeed<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2860,1152],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-15432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-google-plus","tag-social-networks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24321,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/06\/08\/important-announcement-about-sms-notifications-in-google-calendar\/","url_meta":{"origin":15432,"position":0},"title":"Important Announcement about SMS notifications in Google Calendar","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"June 8, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Catching up with emails, I saw this email from the Google Calendar team: Starting on June 27th, 2015, SMS notifications from Google Calendar will no longer be sent. 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