I was impressed with the fact that this post was on plus. It's like Twitter, only with no size constraint and with discussions right on the post. I'm excited to see how its usage will pan out.
while(true) {
Start simple
Add features
Declare it too complex
Abandon it and start again
}YouTube is a pack of raving howler monkeys with the occasional howler monkey researcher at the periphery. And, in fact, YouTube used to have threads, but they were still threads full of howler monkeys.
I'm talking more like your classic bulletin boards producing high quality content, like MetaFilter, Something Awful, and the like.
I'm not intrinsically opposed to threads, but I'm not sure they're super beneficial outside of technical contexts or in an environment where people are expected to break a larger conversation off into it's own little set of discussions to keep the high level conversation easy to understand.
Buzz + suggest who to follow!