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G+ Migration posts via Exporter

Saving of public Google+ content at the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine by the Archive Team has begun

The archiving of _public_ Google+ content to the [Internet Archive](https://web.archive.org/) by the [ArchiveTeam](https://www.archiveteam.org/)...

The Plexodus is a Month Old

The Plexodus is a Month Old Plexodus https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DG-e3nACKfA/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAAAAg/ZzPxfMNjSkc/w720-h406-p/photo.jpg Google announced its intent to shut down Google+ on October 8, and we hit the one-month threshold this past Thursday. I thought I'd note some of the things that have and haven't happened in the past four weeks. Truth to tell the action wasn't entirely unexpected, and some of us have been wondering what took Google so long, but the announcement itself came without warning, out of the blue, and by all appearances, without any significant advance planning at Google itself. What was originally 10 months to sunset is now 9. Progress From a dead start, there's been some fairly impressive progress on numerous fronts. Among those: The Google+ Mass Migration community We've crossed 3,000 members since 8 October, all current and active. The group was John Lewis's effort, several others started at roughly the same time, including one I'd launched sti...

Clarifying G+ Migration Goals and Intent

Clarifying G+ Migration Goals and Intent (Posted to "The Beginning is Near (https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/eetPRdL4VkP)" G+ Community. Lightly adapted.) As a quieter space, I'm going to use (and invite others to use) "The Beginning is Near" as a planning and strategy space. Mass Migration got the jump on users, but we can play signal to our strength. The goal is for those of us who've cultivated a significant personal social network on Google+ to carry that forward to some new platform. The platform itself does not have to be a direct analogue of G+, though it should offer at least a reasonable set of similar features. This is a set of individual migrations across a wilderness, not a single massive boatlift. I'd initially selected the refugee ship image below, the Vlorna delivering thousands of Bulgarian refugees to Italy in 1991, for Mass Migration's hero. It ultimately doesn't represent what we're going to accomplish, in all likelihood: the mass migration ...