#googleplus

@nyquildotorg I loved the Ripples feature that early #GooglePlus had!
It was very neat to see it ripple through communities with reshares, and occasionally was a great way to find and tap directly into new audiences.
It probably also could be a privacy nightmare
Early introductory example video of Google Ripples in action on Google Plus
Being able to scrub through the timeline and watch the post spread out to other people, with the size of the circles representing how big an audience it reached, and then being able to click on them to see the other circles it reached through them, filtering down deeper and deeper recursively. Getting an overview of the biggest 'influencers', languages, and stats like longest chain length, average shares per hour, and longest chain; I don't think I've seen a similar set of features since.
RIP #GoogleRipples and #GPlus.

Am I the only one for whom #Microsoft pushing #AI into every single product is the same, but absolutely the same scenario like #GooglePlus was? With the expected flop at the end as well?

Als damals Google+ einfach so beendet wurde, war ich traurig und auch wütend, weil ich ein Netzwerk verlor, das mir von den Menschen her zusagte. Über Umwege fand ich dann zu Mastodon und ich glaube, ich habe ein besseres Google+ gefunden und eine digitale Heimat.

#Mastodon #GooglePlus

I wrote about SPECT a long time ago when I was doing #SciCom on #GooglePlus, which I converted to a blog.

https://medicalimaging.imagedistillary.com/2014/10/26/medical-imaging-101-pt-7-spect/

@CyberpunkLibrarian that still exists? I remember it was an alternative being built during the demise of #GooglePlus, and IIRC it was drawing too many right-wingers for my liking, though I could be misremembering.

You know what is another thing I miss from #GooglePlus?
Being able to preview the snippet for links before posting, and the ability to select which of the page images to accompany the snippet. Especially if it would be combined with an optional alt text for the snippet media.
Yes, I know I could also just upload a screenshot or manually download and attach the relevant image, but this would feel a lot more streamlined.
#mastoDev #mastodon

im absolutely convinced that creating a googleplus alternative in the fediverse would have an insane potential. I would totally love to design and iterate on it, I would just need frontend & backend devs

if you wanna talk abt that, please reply to this post or email me at contact@matlfb.com

boost appreciated

#fediverse #googleplus #fullstack #fullstackdevelopment #fullstackdeveloper

Does anyone else miss Google+ ?

#Google+ #GooglePlus

#Mastodon ist nach #GooglePlus das erste wirklich soziale Netzwerk, das den Namen verdient. Und die Möglichkeiten des #Fediverse habe ich noch nicht mal ganz erfasst.

Ernsthaft:
Aktuell wünsche ich mir die
#Circles von #GooglePlus zurück. Das ist ja leider hier nicht möglich. :(

Has anyone done a #fediverse version of #GooglePlus?

Take your time and watch this film. Remember? On #GooglePlus I created the Hashtag #CW2 and #CivilWar2, after several trips to the formerly United States. Seems like it is arriving in main stream media now. #Kassandra.

The movie is a great journalists' film and #HeartOfDarkness / #ApocalypseNow trip that gets more and more grippy to the end. Maybe too hard to stand... Don't read any spoilers, it's crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6akI-LbDsdA

For Google Plus users only: A Walk Down Memory Lane.

Five years ago today, Google commenced the shutdown of Google Plus. The process took several hours as different geographic regions of the world went dark, one after another.

Here is a blog post with screen shots of what our beloved social networking platform used to look like.

https://shuttersparks.net/for-google-plussers-only/

#google #GooglePlus #GPlus #G+ #history #memories

Weird idea: a thingy that imports #GooglePlus posts from Google Takeout and puts them up as fedi toots with the correct date and everything (and "Google+" as the client app).

Got a quote from this guy for some tree work, and I feel like if I can actually find him on #GooglePlus, then he deserves my business.

#Google #WeekendThoughts

I just took an #Elsevier survey on "how the research community views and uses different #SocialMedia platforms for professional and personal purposes."
https://confm.it/r/bYedqfc

One question asked which social-media platforms I use. It offered a list of platforms with checkboxes. The list included #GooglePlus, and excluded #Mastodon and #Bluesky.

If #GooglePlus had survived until #Musk began pillaging #Twitter, would #Google have seen the wisdom of keeping it and adapting it to the new conditions?

What would #Google give to be a player in today's #SocialMedia ferment of creative disruption?

I'm one of those kooks who think that Google was way too fast to pull the plug on #GooglePlus, even for a company with a penchant for plug-pulling.
* And that it was wrong to lose interest and drop features years before killing it.
* And that it botched the death blow by deleting G+ posts instead of preserving them as it did with the #Usenet posts it previously hunted down and reposted.