John Resig – Google Groups is Dead

October 28, 2009 by chuq · Comments
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As far as I’m concerned, Google Groups is dead.

via John Resig – Google Groups is Dead.

Yes, it is, and has been for a while. What’s interesting about this to me is that Yahoo Groups isn’t. In fact, it’s doing quite well, has very little spam problem, very active communities, and Yahoo doesn’t seem to get much credit for how well they’re working, because if you listen inside the high tech echo chamber, Google is where it’s at and Yahoo died years ago.

Yahoo groups has had it’s challenges, but it’s a viable place to host a group and hold a conversation, and Google Groups hasn’t been for a long time…

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