Episode 36 - The Google Graveyard
With Google's announcement of the impending demise of Google Plus, we discuss various Google products that have succeeded and failed over the years, and what we can learn from it.
Also: the security breaches from Facebook and Google Plus, Amazon's AI hiring program and the bias it sustains, and Tim Berners Lee's dream of a decentralized web.
Products Mentioned: Google Plus, Google Hangouts, Google Drive, Google Photos, Dodgeball, Wave, Google Buzz, Google Maps, Google Reader, Google Hangouts, Inbox, Facebook Graph Search
Articles
Amazon’s Scraped AI recruiting tool
Tim Berners Lee’s New World Wide Web
My fixed version of stickymap.com - upgraded from Google Maps V2 to V3.
Previous Episodes
Episode 32 on my Sabbatical Projects including Subjective Tagging
Episode 31 on Causality
Episode 12 on Virtual Friends and Virtual Enemies
Episode 7 with Dennis Crowley who Founded Dodgeball as well as Foursquare
Episode 6 on Decentralization to the Rescue
Episode 2 with former Google Forms Engineer Maryam Aly
