Poll: What do you think of Google+? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by zachanker » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:43 AM UTC

antihero wrote: post #9

Invites are so bloody rare. Gmail was groundbreaking (and empirically offered way more space, etc) so people were going nuts for invites. This is, at best, a "bit better than Facebook". And much as people dislike it, Facebook is a pretty powerful tool, as opposed to webmail before Gmail, which majorly sucked.

The invites weren't actually that bad, nothing like Gmail was initially. Most (Everyone?) had unlimited invites for a good 4-5+ hours.

You could actually get in if you refreshed the main page, they seemed to let people sign up through some magical formula.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by kunalb » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:45 AM UTC

While the UI is good with animations and a nice design, I don't see anything that will make me shift completely away from FB: I might use it for hangout as an alternative to calling over google chat/skype. That's about it.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by personalcompute » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:46 AM UTC

JoeyRJ wrote: post #12

From what I can see (From demos, no invite yet, got one? :( ) Google got alot of things right that Facebook got wrong. Mostly concerning privacy and sharing. Now, like most people say, Facebook has all these settings to share stuff with the people you want to share with, but my problem is that the whole security settings thing is a MESS! If google can do that right, while providing a better android app than FB does,…

Can't invite you w/o contact information. Add an email to your bio.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by bvi » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:47 AM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #15

bvi wrote: post #13

If anyone has an invite, (pretty) please get in touch!

They took the invite system down tonight due to too much demand, else I'd send you one.

Ah yes. Pity! Appreciate the gesture, though!

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by meatmanek » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:48 AM UTC

xd wrote: post #8

With all the hype surrounding google+ it's a crying shame it's not openly available. Within a couple of days my interest will have subsided and it will be nothing but a distant memory .. which I can imagine will be the case for a lot of people. Hopefully if it is any good, it will claw it's way back into the media spotlight, but how many people will try for a second time to sign up. IMHO the invite only plan will kil…

Making it invite-only forces people to talk about it. Gmail's slow launch was done really well, and probably drove interest more than harmed it. If Google handles this well, the same thing could happen for Google+.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by Blarat » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:48 AM UTC

xd wrote: post #8

With all the hype surrounding google+ it's a crying shame it's not openly available. Within a couple of days my interest will have subsided and it will be nothing but a distant memory .. which I can imagine will be the case for a lot of people. Hopefully if it is any good, it will claw it's way back into the media spotlight, but how many people will try for a second time to sign up. IMHO the invite only plan will kil…

I haven't seen any hype surrounding google+ except for HN and other similar communities. I don't think the regular FB user is even aware that google+ is in testing phase, or that google is even working on anything like it. Heck, how many have heard of google wave outside of the geek circle?

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by meatmanek » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:49 AM UTC

jonursenbach wrote: post #15

bvi wrote: post #13

If anyone has an invite, (pretty) please get in touch!

They took the invite system down tonight due to too much demand, else I'd send you one.

If you share something with a specific email address, I believe the email they get has a signup link.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by Vmabuza » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:49 AM UTC

1st thing they should do is to drop the ''Google'' and call it Plus-Its clean

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by praptak » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:55 AM UTC

patio11 wrote: post #18

I do not have a Google+-shaped hole in my life right now. If a) it starts to matter to non-technical Internet users and b) they tie it into search heavily (which is the Google go-to playbook for promoting properties of strategic importance), I will start caring with alacrity.

"I do not have a Google+-shaped hole in my life right now."

Neither do I but the only hope for G+ is not plugging known holes - FB does that already. They need to create new possibilities instead.

Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?

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Post by xd » Thu, Jun 30, 2011, 8:58 AM UTC

Blarat wrote: post #26

xd wrote: post #8

With all the hype surrounding google+ it's a crying shame it's not openly available. Within a couple of days my interest will have subsided and it will be nothing but a distant memory .. which I can imagine will be the case for a lot of people. Hopefully if it is any good, it will claw it's way back into the media spotlight, but how many people will try for a second time to sign up. IMHO the invite only plan will kil…

I haven't seen any hype surrounding google+ except for HN and other similar communities. I don't think the regular FB user is even aware that google+ is in testing phase, or that google is even working on anything like it. Heck, how many have heard of google wave outside of the geek circle?

For the UK the BBC news, daily mail, the sun etc to name a few are running the story.