"Google+ has lost its way," declares former UX designer in a blog post on Medium.
Former Google+ UX designer (and hashtag inventor) Chris Messina has declared Google's social network a bust in a scathing post on Medium.
Monday, December 1, 2014
The Fucking Mac Calendar 1 Is Now Off Fucking Center Too!
JESUSASFDG&$HGDRT%EGHJKN/!)YBDMGÑCHRIST! They did it again. Look at it! Look at that freaking haters-gonna-hate number 1 proudly walking through OS X's dock! Some (asshole) reader made me notice this today and now I want to punch my MacBook Pro Retina screen like Joe Pesci.
Marketing Day: Cyber Monday Social Conversations, Finding Your Marketing Flaws & Mobile Design Tips
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: Black Friday & Cyber Monday Driving More Social Conversation Than Ever Black Friday’s importance for retail success might be waning — what with the National Retail Federation announcing an 11% drop […]
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Every Ship That Has Carried Humans Into Space, In One Chart
Space is big, humans are small, and spacecraft, well, vary more in size than you might think. Redditor Heaney555 has compiled an a chart, to scale, of every rocket, spacecraft, and space station involved in human spaceflight. And man, Saturn V is huuuuuuuge—it's as long as the whole International Space Station.
President Obama Wants To Put Body Cameras On 50,000 Police Officers
The White House is putting together a package that will allocate $75 million to lapel-mounted cameras.
Last week, when President Obama addressed the nation following a grand jury decision to not prosecute Darren Wilson, the Ferguson police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, he seemed to bite his tongue and left a lot of things unsaid. On Monday, however, the president proposed a landmark three-year, $263 million spending package, part of which is designed to put body cameras on 50,000 cops.
Former Google+ designer slams the service for being 'Facebook lite'
Google+ is a social network "adrift at sea," representing a big missed opportunity for the company, a former Google employee who worked on the service says.
Chris Messina, who worked on Google+ user experience design before leaving the company over a year ago, wrote a long post on Medium, in which he criticizes the service for not delivering on its initial vision of empowering users with the vast amount of data that Google collects about them. He also calls out Google+ for not having any meaningful differentiators over its more successful competitor, Facebook. "Most people would likely describe Google+ as a newsfeed, a kind of Facebook-lite," he wrote. Read more...
More about Google, Facebook, Social Media, Apps Software, and Dev DesignWhy The Supreme Court Is Ruling On Facebook
The Supreme Court will decide what exactly constitutes a death threat on social media.
In 2010, a Pennsylvanian man named Anthony Elonis made an ill-advised move: He threatened to kill his estranged wife in a Facebook post. Elonis was sentenced to four years in prison, of which he served more than three years before release, and eventually appealed his case to the Supreme Court.
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