Re: Facebook’s big launch coming this thursday
I would like to argue on this thing.
You can’t compare MySpace with Google+. This would have been a huge success if Google hasn’t presented the half baked cookie and has launched it a year before. Why i am arguing on this thing, leme try to explain.
When you are browsing Facebook, you are dedicating your time just on facebook, videos which are appearing on your wall and news being shared with you. You don’t leave facebook to browse anything else. You are giving your focus and dedicated time to facebook. But when you are doing something else, lets browsing a blog, watching videos which has not shared with you .. searching something - you are not on facebook.
This is the basic concept of Google+ - which is in very early stage of its development. Google owns you in every single thing
- You wana search - Google
- You wana watch a video - YouTube
- You wana go somewhere - Google Maps
- You wana send a message - GMail
- You wana tweet - Google Buzz
- You wana read updates - Google Reader
List goes on …
The concept of the Black Bar of Google + is to extend it to on all possible Google Services. Imagine, you wil see this bar on every single Google+ Product. Now etll me, to share something .. would you copy the url and open facebook to share it or just click on the bar to share it? Think about ease of use .. ..
I know one can argue that one case share from webpages **If they have facebook **shared button configured but most of the blogs, RSS feeds etc isn’t that developed yet.
Even though, Google+ has declined a lot and i don’t think that Google+ is going to rise up again but if Google uses its cards accordingly - they will def give Facebook a tough time.