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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 yesimahuman »

yalogin wrote: post #71
wccrawford wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Or the use case centered around friends when really it seemed more suitable for a business network.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by tomp »

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.

I have the same problem, too much spam, but about this solution having a huge potential... I feel like a lot of people feed on that "spam", i.e. gossip, to fill their lives, and make them more interesting. I think that's one reason why facebook is so popular and people spend so much time on it - there's always something happening, relevant/important or not.

Besides, FB has been offering features like this for a long time already, all the people that I know that actually care about privacy have neat friend lists and post only for specific groups of people, have limited profiles/walls, etc.

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Post by ignifero »

handrake wrote: post #30
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 think Google simply sucks at anything remotely related to social networking.

Me too, maybe they'll be saved by the "hangouts" and photos features?

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by Roritharr »

kristiandupont wrote: post #96

This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this. Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not just the ones with similar interests. Although it looks like a big discussion group, the news feed…

If Google has enough money to develop self driving cars, there has to be some for the development of remote seduction.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by darrenkopp »

haberman wrote: post #38
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…

> WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? Maybe they want to work out the kinks before having 10 million users instantly. The privacy aspect of this will be very important, and the Buzz launch is an example of how opening up to everyone at the same time led to a large backlash.

Yet again I'll be in a situation where I (potentially, hopefully) get invited but everyone else I know won't be, so I won't be able to use it. I think having this be invite only, especially where _Google_ is the entity doing the invites is a recipe for disaster.

Now, if they make it so that invited users can invite a good amount of other users (say, 100), then I think they _may_ be able to salvage this. If not, I'm not predicting a good outcome.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by sandipagr »

kristiandupont wrote: post #52
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.

You can create friend lists on Facebook. I don't use them (I just hide people who spam) but they seem to do what you want..

pretty much only thing you can do with lists on Facebook is assign people to lists.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by netrus »

bryze wrote: post #8

Perhaps 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.

Microsoft produced a search engine which is on Google's level and a Map that can compete with Google Maps. But As they were not much better, I had no reason to check it out regularly and compare. But I am on Google's services 40+ times a day. If they want to get my attention, they will get it.
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