Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
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Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#2From plus.google.com:
> Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people.
WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly disallowing social networking! This is so frustrating.
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#3From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…
Worst part is their sign-up page has gone MIA - 404
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#4The hangouts feature seems like a big win to me. Group video chats in the browser from someone like Google can really change things.
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#5This thing is pretty neat though:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#6The hangouts feature seems like a big win to me. Group video chats in the browser from someone like Google can really change things.
I disagree. Social networking, unlike skype or email, requires low cognitive load--you come to hang out on your own terms. While group video chat is a convenient feature when you need it, it's not going to fundamentally change the game.
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#7There are different kinds of media coverage in SV. There's the excited, this is cool buzz, and then there's the look what big player X is doing sort of coverage. This feels like the latter. People are talking about this, but I don't get the sense that anyone is pumped up about it.
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#8Perhaps this will make facebook better. Competition can often improve product quality. For google this might, however, turn out the same way that Microsoft's grab for web applications is going. First to market is hard to break.
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#9From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…
In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.
Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
#10The hangouts feature seems like a big win to me. Group video chats in the browser from someone like Google can really change things.
You should check out tinychat ;)