So...iPhone app?
Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+
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#82Who's Melissa?
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#83Circles is very interesting, its could solve a work/life/parents social battle I fight, however the demo only allows you to add a person to one circle, I hope this is just a demo limitation, as my sister is also my 'friend'.
AFAIK you can put people in several circles.
Do you have a link?
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.
They really didn't. Facebook had a small target audience originally. You also had to know somebody to get it. Rather than having a closed beta, they were building scarcity and exclusivity at the beginning.
The exclusivity was also emphasized by everyone knowing it had come out of Harvard at the very beginning, which had and has a social cachet that Google Plus won't.
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#85What 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.
Well, Facebook does allow you to download your profile[1], so Google could just write an importer for that.
[1]: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/10/07/1250242/Facebook-Imp...
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#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Well, Harvard's UG enrollment is about 7k.
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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.
I went and looked back at the Techcrunch article and it appears that some of the people in their "bike geeks" circle still appear in the top dragable area of people, so maybe they didn't screw this up after all. It seems really bizarre for them to miss something like this in the demo. It is a demo, after all.
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By default, Android phones store apps on an onboard storage location that is separate from the SD card. On some older phones there is not a whole lot of space here. For example it didn't take a whole lot at all for me to fill up my Nexus One's app partition. It wasn't until 2.2 that the option to move apps to a encrypted location on the SD card was added, and even then it's an option that has to be enabled by the dev…
Wow, why do they make the user manage this at all? The distinction sounds like an enormous misfeature to me.
It's one of the things that dissuaded me from getting an HTC Android phone two years ago (got an iPhone with 32GB instead). I'm glad they're moving towards fixing it.
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#89From 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…
It worked pretty well for Gmail.
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#90This is a solid move on Google's part. Not half-baked like Wave was. Its more evolutionary than revolutionary but it makes the 'package' of Google services a bit more valuable as well.
It will be interested to see if this impacts the IPO plans of Facebook. This does seem to be a direct assault on their home turf.