Comments on: Googler’s Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook’s Armor

By: Unfriendly: Google Blocking Ex-Employee’s "Social Circles" Book (Oh Yeah, He Now Works At Facebook) | Tech 2 Up

Tue, 23 Aug 2011 05:02:40 +0000

[...] work at Google on user experience and made a popular presentation that suggested how Google could go after Facebook in the social space — namely, friend groups. That, of course, ended up happening with [...]

By: Unfriendly: Google Blocking Ex-Employee’s "Social Circles" Book (Oh Yeah, He Now Works At Facebook) | TechCrunch

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:57:56 +0000

By: 2010: A Year of Blogging, Curating, and Sharing Tech News by @ScepticGeek

2010: A Year of Blogging, Curating, and Sharing Tech News by @ScepticGeek — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:33:12 +0000

[...] Googler’s Take on Social Networking Reveals Chinks in Facebook’s Armor (15,657) [...]

By: Facebookの’フレンド’の非現実性を指摘したPaul AdamsがFacebookに移籍–Googleからの異様な頭脳流出

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 09:46:50 +0000

[...] 今朝（米国時間12/20）、Googleのユーザ体験部門(User Experience, UX)を指揮していたPaul Adamsが、1月からFacebookの社員になると発表した。彼はあの有名なスライドで、Facebookのソーシャルグラフには重大な欠点があり、人間の本当の人間関係を表せない、と指摘した。Adamsはこれまで4年あまり、GoogleのUXチームで仕事をしていた。 [...]

By: One social network to rule them all? A modest proposal « here's the thing:

One social network to rule them all? A modest proposal « here's the thing: — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:51:09 +0000

[...] Facebook’s focus on real-life relationships, Google will seek to beat them at their own game. A recent presentation by Google employee Paul Adams, who’s believed to be working on Google’s putative social [...]

By: RealID is still lousy. | Azeroth. Me.

RealID is still lousy. | Azeroth. Me. — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:13:03 +0000

[...] find it most useful. If you’ve got a moment or five, it’s worth looking through this presentation on social networking, which goes into a lot of the problems with the current (Facebook-driven, RealID-adopted) model of [...]

By: Jannik Lindquist

Jannik Lindquist — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:10:48 +0000

In my opinion, Paul Adam is wrong in just about everything he says about Facebook. Yes, all your contacs are called “Friends” on Facebook – but that doesn't mean, that you can't group them. In fact, Facebook offers great options for keeping your groups separate. You can post a status, an image or an album to any given group (or groups) – or you can block any given group (or groups) from seeing a status, an image or an album. Whether you think Facebook's options are complicated is a matter of taste – but it is pretty absurd to deny their existence

By: A different kind of social | b r a n t s

A different kind of social | b r a n t s — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:38:41 +0000

[...] Mahendra's excellent key takeaways+thoughts post if you need a quick snapshot without having to read 216 [...]

By: Can Google Figure Out How to Appeal to Lobsters As Well As Pandas?

Can Google Figure Out How to Appeal to Lobsters As Well As Pandas? — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:32:43 +0000

[...] to attack this defect in its makeup: it is thinking hard about how social networks function, if a recent presentation by a Google staffer is anything to go by, and it is attempting to hire a “head of [...]

By: Daniel Endy

Daniel Endy — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:06:18 +0000

Great points. I saw these issues clearly years ago. I disagree that one social network platform can't handle it all. It's just a matter of allowing users to categorize connections as close, moderate, or moderate, and being able to group users and address posts to certain groups. FB already allows groups. It would be fairly easy to make these changes.