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Google Will Shut Down Google+ Four Months Early After Second Data Leak (theverge.com)
Google+ has suffered another data leak, and Google has decided to shut down the consumer version of the social network four months earlier than it originally planned. From a report: Google+ will now close to consumers in April, rather than August. Additionally, API access to the network will shut down within the next 90 days. According to Google, the new vulnerability impacted 52.5 million users, who could have had profile information like their name, email address, occupation, and age exposed to developers, even if their account was set to private. Apps could also access profile data that had been shared with a specific user, but was not shared publicly.
I have no idea how this clown got hired by Google and then been put in charge of trying to create a social network. Everything he touches is shit or is turned into shit.
One just has to watch this living and breathing manifestation of failure to see that he is the exact opposite of someone you want creating a social network.
I'd also add that they're the masters of half-assed implementations. They very often bring something out that's not even beta level in terms of functionality, get bombarded with requests for new features that should have been there on day one, and then take fucking forever to implement even a few of the requests.
No one should be surprised that Google+ is going away. It never came close to achieving the market penetration they wanted, and was always this weird thing over on the side among social media sites.
That's because Google killed Picasa to force photos over to Google+.