[jdeibele]

I just finished listening to the first episode of "Acquired" on Google and it ended with Google pushing Google Plus into everything in an effort to compete with Facebook in social networking. It really hampered all their other offerings.

https://www.acquired.fm Acquired podcast does long (2 4-hour episodes on Google) episodes on various companies, mostly tech but recently Trader Joe's

[taeric]

The debacle that was Google Wave into Google Plus is... really hard to really come to terms with. I don't even know that Hubris is enough to explain how badly managed that time period was by them. Just so bad.

[devilbunny]

Google Wave... what an amazing piece of work just thrown in the trash.

I never used any of its collaboration features, just looked at them. I did use it as a friendly-for-non-geeks version of IRC for a group of people that lived in three separate cities as a virtual watch party for LOST. And for that, it was spectacular even if it was painfully slow on a netbook (so was everything else, but it was cheap and light and worked).

[dpark]

Wave was an interesting jumble of ideas that just didn’t bring a coherent answer for why anyone should use it.

Google Plus was 100% hubris. “If we build our version of Facebook, it course everyone will flock to it.”

[marssaxman]

Google Plus launched between the time I interviewed at Google and the time I started work there, and that really took the shine off the whole thing.

[bambax]

Google Plus was insanely disastrous. And there was a guy, generally well respected, who was in charge of search I think? who went around advocating for Google Plus on forums, and people responding: if one needs Google Plus to find things, doesn't that mean that search is bad? But he didn't seem to make the connection, or he pretended not to.

[kingkawn]

Do they talk about Trader Joe’s illegal union busting and attempts to get the national labor relations board disbanded ?

[Rebelgecko]

You could probably ask an LLM to listen and answer this question