Maybe add an option for "haven't got an invite yet" update: got one :)
Whats your email id.
I would also like to request one for [REDACTED]
Many thanks in advance. [edit] Thanks to my sponsor!
Poll: What do you think of Google+?
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#62I take it like a fresh start.
This is why I switched from Y!Messenger to Gmail Chat. There was a good opportunity to get rid of annoying people in my list, and to handpick the ones that I really wanna chat with
I will try to do the same by switching from Facebook to Google+. It seems easy enough that my folks will be able to use it. So for one thing, I will be very active within my Family circle, given the fact that I live abroad and I share lots of photos and do a lot of video chatting with my family. Second, I have the chance to better organize my friends and acquaintances and to share relevant stuff with them.
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#63With 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 used to think that it matters, but you can create circles with people who don't have plus (as long as you have their email) so I don't think it will hamper adoption.
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#64With 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+.
They used the same invite-only strategy with Wave, didn't they? That was a ghost town when I finally got in...
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just watch as your friends and family drag you through the don't-need-it wall carving a Google+ shaped hole. Google+ will succeed because it's an exact clone of Facebook, but faster, more open to search engines (shocking!), integrated right into Gmail and makes it easier than Facebook to spam people. The feature which Google is claiming to be the revolutionary new thing (Circles) has already existed in Facebook for a…
Facebook lists are pretty much useless. Yes, you can hide all your status updates from a selected bunch of people, but if you want to show them a single one you've got to make a bunch of additional clicks and then type in the lists' name (if you can recall it). It seems as if the feature was on purpose crippled so no one would bother to use it. Simplifying the whole process should be quite easy - and that's what Goog…
That's right. By making the feature opt-in (choose who should see this), instead of opt-out (choose who should not see this), Google has made a better version of Lists.
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#66I 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.
That phrase and many others like it, are said when technologists give up and decide to stop moving along with the times.
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#67a new thinking in social networking
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#69I find I miss the simplicity of Facebook to a degree. With plus, it's not really clear who I'm sharing what with at any given time, or what the relationships I've set up are. Facebook has one kind of relationship (1-1) and one kind of sharing (to your friends or to everybody, depending on how your security settings are configured). It's also missing a number of essential (at least for college students) facebook featu…
facebook really mess up with our privacy
Re: Poll: What do you think of Google+?
#70We're working on a startup with an app that functions very similarly to the Sparks feature of Google+. The app will recommend new things for you to read and watch based on your interests (which are stored long-term, but can be ordered, edited, removed). Now that Google+ has a very similar feature in Sparks, I need to think long and hard on whether to continue with the idea. (We are a small team with three developers…
If you're a startup building another social network, I think the question to ask yourself is: what's our business model?
Unless you are well connected in the valley, have insane traction already, have boatloads of cash, don't like or need money or are doing it for charity, it's not a startup, it's just a hobby.
I think the smart thing to do now is ride the social networking wave and build something on top of it.
Think Zynga, not Facebook.