Tag: Social Platforms

2 posts

How an Instagram page became an app

A decade of building community, the principles that shaped it, and the platform that grew from it.

Mar 14, 2026

Here's what Google+ could have been

Confession: I want to like Google+. I think competition is a great thing, and Google is in a unique position to do something fascinating with social platforms. It's also significant that a lot of really brilliant people from the decentralized web community - Chris Messina, Will Norris and Stephen Paul Weber, for example - now work at Google. (Not to mention Elgg's Evan Winslow.) I have nothing but respect for those guys. And, hey, I'll admit that I'm a little envious that they get to work on it.

Apr 6, 2012