Paul Papadimitriou

With Google applications we return to the app to do something specific and then go on to something else, whereas great social applications are designed to lure us back and make us never want to leave

Google is utilitarian by DNA. Social networking mostly fanciful. If you want to understand what’s at stake for Google Me, this is a must read -even if I don’t agree with it all. ➡ Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications…