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Since Google+ refugees are all the rage at Cake, this reminds me of the discussions we had as the network was new. At the time, when you made social accounts on Twitter or Facebook, you were either all public or all private. There was no in …

I have no personal insight into the ways of Taylor, but I have to imagine that part of Instagram's growth and Twitter's churn has been the concept it's a friendlier place. What always gets me is the reticence of companies to take control away from …

Retweets with a comment should continue to exist. They are not appended to the original. If they are hateful and slanderous, etc, the account should be disciplined, but the goal is to extract the noise away from the original poster if they choose.

https://cake.imgix.net/m/VGRhjftxjlSH_1540088831532.png?fit=max&fm=pjpg&h=640&q=65&w=680 Web content has typically divided into three camps - those who create, those who react, and those who just watch. The lurkers, if you will. From the very …

Awesome photos. The jaguar was absolutely beautiful. Unpictured was when I was reaching out for a shot and he leapt and snapped at me, as if I'd crossed the forbidden line. Wish I had gotten that on video. Less scary? This tiny little gibbon baby, …

Spending time at the Wildlife World Zoo today with the family, I encountered this big cat, who had his eyes on me. Luckily, I had my Pixel 2 XL and captured his stare. That's not a big fence between us, but it works. Also, in the background, a …

A long time ago, I almost quit over our company's URL structure. https://blog.louisgray.com/2011/07/real-valley-stories-nearly-quitting.html I figured as Web Marketing manager, if I couldn't get the site to say Domain/Directory when the engineers …

It checks out. @Vilen

This is a clear and obvious requirement for growth. I waver between the "40 ways to improve Cake" or "10 Things Cake Needs to Do to Grow" posts I have in my head, and realizing it's not a great idea to give away free consulting.

Synaxia was essentially in stealth mode while they built their product. If it did what it was supposed to, it could have upended EMC and NetApp the way Cisco had decimated Nortel and 3Com. Being quiet bought them time to build. I had one hop in …

A few days later, I got a call that offered me the job. I had no idea, really, what kind of salary to ask for, but, having just finished my double major from Berkeley, and getting two years under my belt, I was looking at a 50% raise over my last …

My final interview was a friendly, older, and heavier guy, with short cropped white hair, folded arms resting on his belly, and an ability to talk your ear off. He was the vice president of marketing. I had 30 minutes with him, and for 20 minutes …

That Monday, sure their headquarters was in some garage somewhere, with like maybe 5-8 guys who couldn't write, I rolled in ready to tell them the ins and outs of marketing and publishing on the web. I pulled into the parking lot on Bernardo in …

One of my job hunting volleys reached a company who so obviously needed my help. Their website was this hideous reddish purple and their icon looked like a squished crow. But they promised big things with revolutionary shock waves. I applied for …

My first two years in Silicon Valley were spent in Burlingame at a dotcom that hoped to revolutionize telecommunicatons online - with Web meetings, conference calls and even faxing from the Web. They had great services, but not enough customers …

> What’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made on the job? One more while we're here mocking ourselves. I once emailed our entire company a story from the Wall Street Journal, where our CEO had made comments that said our company was having layoffs. …

> What’s the worst mistake you’ve ever made on the job? In 1998, I was the Online Editor at the Daily Californian (dailycal.org), and was training a new hire, who could possibly put the paper on the Web a few nights a week for me, so I could get …

And here's @Daria from that day (shaking phone camera and all). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_PgrRz5XV8 Tell me there's not real emotion in that song.

In January 2012, with Google+ a few months old, I hosted @Daria at the Plex. She was fantastic. In fact, after her performance, including a rousing rendition of our all-time favorite hit, +1 me, SVP Vic Gundotra found me in the hallway and thanked …

What I've seen from communities on the Web is they translate from real world connections or spawn them. Did you find that Google+ drew you to people you already knew, or did you instead find that you discovered people on the service who are part of …

A successful service often needs three things: Relevance, Community and Evolution. (Simply said... being on topic, having cool people, and continuing to be updated) For the panelists, what drew you to G+ in the first place, and what would you have …

I would also have accepted answers that suggested Cake is filling, and that everybody could use a slice. This is our slice of the Internet.

I just wanted to mention that I was here before it was cool.

When you look at the Pixelbook (https://store.google.com/us/product/google_pixelbook), you gain (vs the current array of Mac laptops), a touchscreen, support for Android apps out of the box, tablet mode, a full 360 hinge etc. It's very …

Re: "It certainly seems like there's less of a switching barrier these days," my view is that the Web platform has eclipsed the need for native apps in practically every case, with lone holdouts in high-end creative and development. It reminds me …