{"id":2906,"date":"2011-07-16T13:35:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.talesfromthe.net\/jon\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2011-07-16T13:35:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T20:35:14","slug":"google-and-diversity-a-work-in-progress-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2011\/07\/16\/google-and-diversity-a-work-in-progress-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Google+ and diversity: A Work in Progress (part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Google+<\/a>With over ten million users in just two weeks, and plenty of rave reviews, Google’s latest foray into social networking is off to a great start.\u00c2\u00a0 Ever since it launched, I’ve spent most of my online time on Google+, and so far am very impressed from both the software engineering and business strategy perspectives. I think it’s on track to be a big success, so expect me to be talking about it a lot.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, I’ll start with diversity.<\/p>\n

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Vic Gundotra*, Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s SVP of Social and the head guy in charge of Plus, said,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u009dWe chose the initial seed very carefully. We wanted a lot of diversity, so we have people that represent over 42 of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s languages\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6”<\/p>\n

— Jason Hiner, “Is Google+ About to transform the web?<\/a>“, Between the lines<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well done!\u00c2\u00a0 And multi-lingual support right out of the box is just one of the things that G+ is doing right on the diversity front. A few other examples:<\/p>\n