Android app is on the market. Note it eats 8MB of phone memory and can't be moved to SD.
Are you really concerned about 8MB? Are there even Android phones on the market today that ship with less than 8GB of space?
Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
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#22The 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 ;)
I was sure that something like this already existed, but the fact that it's embedded within a social network and is a service by Google makes it a whole lot more appealing.
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#23Found a signup link that works: http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/+/learnmore/forum/
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#24From 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…
They're hoping to do the same thing they did with Gmail: use artificial scarcity to their advantage. It'll work if the people there get invites - that way it'll gradually expand until it opens up to everybody.
It's more natural with an email client, though, because email is already federated, so interoperable with the existing email system. This doesn't appear to be.
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#25From 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…
> Oops... you need a Google Profile to use this feature.
Google Profiles is not available for your organisation.
Come on, Google!
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#26What I'd like to know is if I can use Facebook Connect to port my graph over (doubt Facebook would allow this) -- or if this means starting from scratch yet again.
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#27(cross posted from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2706219)
I'm very excited to try this out. Context (AKA "Circles") is the biggest feature Facebook still hasn't gotten right. By mirroring the way we think about our social graph in real life, Google is making a huge step toward converging Online and Offline identity. It will be very interesting to see how Facebook responds to this... they might finally have a competitor.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.
Not really. Facebook opened it up to entire colleges at a time. So once you were able to get on, most of your friends were able to, too.
I bet those inside Google+ at this early stage can invite others in as well.
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#29Found a signup link that works: http://www.google.com/intl/en_uk/+/learnmore/forum/
The one on the front-page has been fixed now.
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#30From 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…
I think Google simply sucks at anything remotely related to social networking.