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Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by wccrawford »

cryptoz wrote: post #2

From 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 totally agree. Wave died partially because when I got it, my friends didn't have it. And by the time the last of them got it, the rest of us didn't care any more.

Had we been able to all get on at once, we might have found a killer app for it and never given it up.

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Post by mikk0j »

Can't even click +1. Gives me the error "Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature. Google Profiles is not available for your organization." since I am logged into a Google Apps account. Google itself force-merged my personal account into the Apps account, so there's an indication of how well they get 'social' in people's lives. And yes I worked there for many years.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by dpcan »

cryptoz wrote: post #21
mikemaccana wrote: post #13

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?

That ship? Maybe not, but my 1.5 year old G1 is full and I'll have it for a while still.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by Lewisham »

cryptoz wrote: post #21
mikemaccana wrote: post #13

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?

My Optimus V has a tiny amount of on-board space, so 8MBs is actually a big deal.

Some apps can't move to the SD card, moving there means things like notifications from that app won't work any more. It's a terrible architectural decision, but my understanding is that it is a limitation of the VM, so they're stuck with it now.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by rapind »

dfield wrote: post #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 c…

I agree. Circles seem really well thought out. I also like the hangouts idea, especially auto-switching focus based on speaker volume, which is again similar to offline interactions.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by dpcan »

wccrawford wrote: post #37
mikemaccana wrote: post #13

Android app is on the market. Note it eats 8MB of phone memory and can't be moved to SD.

I love how the ratings are all about being able to download it, but not use it.

+100

I just hope that Google will see this and internally realize what's ACTUALLY broken in the Android Market and solve the real problems that exist.

I REALLY hope they see these comments and think "I sure wish there were a way to communicate with my users...." Which is a problem all of the Market publishers have been complaining about for over a year.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by 201studio »

I think this has huge potential. The problem with Facebook, at least for me, is that I have a ton of friends that post pointless shit. Now with features like Circles I can put my REAL friends in one circle, family in another, and all the noise and acquaintances(networking etc.) in a spam filter circle.

This is going to be awesome.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by bmj »

guywithabike wrote: post #12
frisco wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

What was FB's initial college roll out? Tens of thousands of users? I suspect Google would have several times that many in the few minutes of a full roll out.
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