Google Spaces將於4月17日停止服務 - Google

1. 情報or新聞 連結：

http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/google-spaces-shut-down/

2. 內文：

Yet another Google service is being sent to the graveyard. Google Spaces,
which launched in May 2016 shortly before Google I/O 2016, is being shut
down. The service will be read-only starting on March 3, and it will close
down for good April 17.
The move is interesting, but not all that surprising — Google catches a lot
of criticism for launching, then shuttering messaging services, and Spaces,
which was a group messaging service likened to a stripped-down version of
Slack, is no exception to that. The goal of the service was to help groups
organize conversations around specific topics — and it functioned less as a
messaging service and more like a group forum app.
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The way it worked was relatively easy. You could simply set a topic, then
invite anyone with a Google account to discuss said topic. Key to how it
worked was its ability to use search to pull in YouTube videos, images, and
search results.
「As we focus our efforts, we've decided to take what we learned with Spaces,
and apply it to our existing products. Unfortunately, this means that we'll
be saying goodbye to supporting Spaces. We want to thank all of the Spaces
users who tried out the app and shared their feedback,」 said John Kilcline,
Google product manager, in a Google+ post.
Spaces was undeniably a social service, and it highlights Google's long and
winding attempts at jumping into the social media network space. First, the
company launched Google+, which largely failed despite the fact that it still
exists. While Google+ is now a much different service than it was when it
launched in 2011, the fact is that Google has a long way to go before it
launches the Facebook and Twitter competitor that it has long hoped to create.

3.心得:
簡單來講，Google Spaces這服務4月17日就會被關閉。
3月3日開始，會先變成只能讀、不能PO新的東西。
不過應該很少人聽過甚至使用過這個服務吧，
畢竟從去年5月開始的，到關閉的那天也不到一年。

當初覺得有趣，用這個服務開設了一個遊戲討論區，
結果今天突然說將要關閉，連備份功能都沒給.... ˊ_>ˋ

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