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Dnew10@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Google to shut down Keen, its experimental Pinterest-like social media platform

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  • evident5051@lemm.ee
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    I’ve literally never heard of Keen until this article.

    • Zachariah@lemmy.world
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      The traditional way to learn about Google services is from the shutdown announcement.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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      The only Keen I know of (and acknowledge) is the Commander:

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      I know they make shoes.

  • KeriKitty (They(/It))@pawb.social
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    Throwing together a service, telling no one, then promptly cancelling it (often because no one used it) is truly the Googlest thing.

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      why do they even do that when it’s just gonna waste their resources?

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        They invest in a project thinking they can make money off it but forgot to advertise that it exists

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    So experimental I didn’t even know Google had a Pinterest-like social media platform.

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    Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?

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      It’s just self-fulfilling prophecy at this point. No one trust Google to keep anything around for more than a couple years so they don’t use it. Then it gets scrapped as a failure and everyone is proven correct.

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        yep. I don’t go near Google products anymore because I know I’m gonna have to migrate a short while later. I don’t understand how they’re not seeing this

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      In this case, probably. I don’t think the world was asking for a Pinterest clone.

      But the problem is, Google does this with everything.

      Stadia had an incredibly successful moment with the Cyberpunk launch. Yet Google failed to hype it up, and then announced about two months later that they were laying off a bunch of devs.

      At the same time, they restructured the monetization and improved the client, making it a really compelling service. And all the news was “Stadia is dead”. And then it was.

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    https://killedbygoogle.com/

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      An unrelated thing killed by Google that just makes me giggle.

      So they upgraded phones once and then said, “fuck that.”

      Lol

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        Almost 2 years, so they didn’t upgrade even once.

        • bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world
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          Right. Some people believed that they would somehow get a free phone after two years, so were extra pissed over it.

          But all it really was was that you could start the program again and get another phone that you would pay off over the next two years.

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      293 products and counting.

      • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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        Someone stop this bloodthirsty maniac!

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    I guess they weren’t so keen on it…

  • MataVatnik@lemmy.world
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    Yet another Google platform I never heard of that is shutting down

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    Never even heard of it

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      Me neither but I’m sure the Google program manager who proposed it got promoted for that long ago.

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    “The decision to shut down Keen is in line with Google’s shift away from social media and follows a trend of Area 120 projects closing due to company restructuring and layoffs in 2023them killing everything they build.”

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    Shut down what?

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    I also never heard of this product, so the first thing I thought of was Keen Software House (makers of the game Space Engineers).

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      Unable to delete so editing instead. Leaving Lemmy.world due to privacy concerns.

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
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        Billy Blaze!

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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          Grandson of Billy Blascowitz!

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            Oh man, please tell me that’s cannon and I just missed it all these years.

            Edit: It is!!

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
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      Or Keen Games, the makers of Enshrouded (and as far as I know, unrelated to Keen Software House)

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      I thought they made shoes

  • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    … First time I’ve heard of it. Maybe that’s why it’s shutting down.

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    Read about it and more in this month’s riveting issue of Duh.

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      Norm!

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        This was one of my favorite bits that he did. I use it all the time!

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    Never heard of it, ever.

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    I know Google has a terrible reputation for killing their projects but this one is just an experiment from Area 120 so it’s not surprising or terrible that they’re killing it or weren’t advertising it.

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