Why 's Lisa Eadicicco's column on Google+ failed.
Why 's Lisa Eadicicco 's column on Google+ failed. The latest "Google+ is dead" article comes from an acquaintance of mine named Lisa Eadicicco (she's been on my show a few times, and also on TWiT): http://www.businessinsider.com.au/what-happened-to-google-plus-2015-4 The piece exists to explain why Google+ failed. In the article, Lisa makes 3 errors fatal to her argument, which add up to a grossly misleading article. Here are those errors: 1. Lisa accepts without question the false idea that spinning photos out of Google+ means Google+ is failing. When Google properties like Google Play and YouTube were integrated into Google+, the tech press didn't give those events as evidence that Google+ was winning. Spinning out photos is a good thing, and doesn't affect Google+ at all. 2. Lisa says something that's untrue: "Google+ never really caught on the same way social networks like Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn did." In fact, Google+ is f...