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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 yalogin »

wccrawford wrote: post #41
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.

Wave died because no one (not even developers) understood what it is or what applications could it have outside of mail.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by petegrif »

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. It is somewhat ironic that Paul Adams who promoted this idea so forcibly whilst at google now works for...facebook.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by afterburner »

cskau wrote: post #5

This thing is pretty neat though: http://www.google.com/intl/en/+/demo/

That's a nice demo, beats a video that I have to sit through.

Also, I'm liking the features; it also adds a few points in the 'pro' column for Android phones when I decide on a replacement. (I currently have an iPhone, and while the web version of this stuff might still work, I'm guessing it'll be even neater on Android.)

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by afterburner »

owenmarshall wrote: post #70
MatthewPhillips wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm afraid it might not be... and that's a deal-killer. You can't mess up the most important feature of your social network like this. Now faced with having to choose one particular bucket people will just throw everyone into one big bucket or not use the site at all.

> I'm afraid it might not be What leads you to that conclusion? Any article I've seen hints at the opposite. I'd be shocked if, as you note, they intentionally cripple one of the core components of this site.

The demo example doesn't allow multiple buckets, but in fairness the demo is presented as a puzzle with one correct answer.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by nuclear_eclipse »

skbohra123 wrote: post #66
cskau wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's back up: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleplus/ gogogo !

gives a 500 error

It also gives an insecure script warning in the latest version of Chrome unstable, which made me laugh since I just started seeing those today.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by brown9-2 »

201studio wrote: post #47

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.

The problem with this is going to be convincing all those people you care about to join Google+, and/or posting their interesting content there instead of on Facebook.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by fedd »

tonfa wrote: post #59
fedd wrote: post #32

too complex to use may affect usage negatively. too many features is not always good. trying to mimic real live brings the complexities of real life to the web. check this: "With Hangouts, the unplanned meet-up comes to the web for the first time. Let specific buddies (or entire circles) know you’re hanging out and then see who drops by for a face-to-face-to-face chat. Until teleportation arrives, it’s the next best…

Then remove him from the circle.

that's like removing a guy from the circle in real life. not always easy

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by markgx »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #68
201studio wrote: post #47

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.

From the demo you have to choose one and only one circle for each person. To me this is a huge problem. A lot of people hang out with some coworkers off-hours and they should be able to put these people into more than 1 bucket.

I'm hoping this is just a limitation of the demo.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by MatthewPhillips »

rapind wrote: post #45
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.

Circles is not well thought out if the demo is accurate in only allowing one circle per friend.
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