Alas, Poor Google+, I Knew Him, Horatio.

I just posted this in regard to this article: MediaShift . Google+: Social Media Upstart 'Worse Than a Ghost Town' | PBS.


It's a fact I learned long ago when I worked for Novell: It rarely matters if your technology is better, if you're the first to make it out with a gap-filling technology, you usually stay on top. For example, people needed a GUI operating system, Windows filled the gap (or some might argue created their own niche). It doesn't matter that any half-decent flavor of Linux can run circles around Windows, regardless of whether or not you use KDE or Gnome. And security... forget about it! Windows is like a deep sea fishing net compared to Linux. And if you purchase a supported version of Linux (like SUSE and Ubuntu), the support costs are easily half that of Windows. We all know these facts.

However, it doesn't matter, because Windows, more or less, got here first. (No, I won't go into marketing tactics and strategies here).

We could argue the same about Google+. Facebook came to the top (although MySpace seemed to be there first, so, did the superior format win out, or just the fact that Facebook didn't feel as sleazy as MySpace) and stays there. I like a lot of the features of Google+ much better. I feel it's more secure and in a lot of ways easier to use, but, for the present, Facebook will still sit on top...or "Sit on MyFacebook" as one friend calls most of those social media networks.

My opinion is that Google+ is better, but might not ever rise to the top, as it should. Maybe it will just stay as a backwater social network for geeks and those who know what's better, but can't do anything about it.

NASA

NASA’s> Puffin Is Way Cooler Than a Jetpack

I tried using Post This last year, but it didn't work, so I'm cutting their link. I really hope to see more development in this realm of technology.

And it never posted, it got stuck in drafts. I haven't tracked any developments on this in a while, but I did just find this: