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Why yo momma won’t use Google+ (and why that thrills me to no end)

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Post by MichaelApproved »

drblast wrote: post #21

I read an interview with a record executive a long time ago and he answered the question, "How do you find the next big thing?" "That's pretty easy," he said, "I just look for something that parents will hate." That this is a successful strategy is self-evident. (American) kids want to differentiate themselves from their parents and will pay money to do so. They'll probably latch on in some form to anything as long a…

He's not saying parents will hate this, they just won't hear about it or understand it if they do.

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tomjen3 wrote: post #60
timmyd wrote: post #50

While I haven't used it yet - my biggest difficutly with the service seems to be that Circles actually act as "silos" and are mutually exclusive. That is, you cannot add "Robert Scoble" to different circles such as "friends" and "Tech feed" - you must choose EITHER "friends" OR "tech feed". This draws difficulties [and again I haven't used it so please someone clarify if I'm wrong] - if I have a friend who is both a…

You are wrong. I have added people to different circles, which is quite nice. Also you don't know which circle you have been added to, so no worries about other peoples feelings.... Oh and if you want an invite, put your email in your gorram profile.

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Post by dimmuborgir »

eiji wrote: post #33

One thing that I haven't heard yet is that Google+ is the worst name they could ever come up with! "+"? Are you kidding me? On the other hand: here is a feature that would help G+ to take of: Tight integration with Android (2.1 and above at least!!! not 3.1) with android video hangout over wifi and 3G for free(!) international! A tough move, I know, but without something on this scale, this could just be another wave…

I think the name Google+ is way better than some arcane name like Orkut.

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Post by klbarry »

eiji wrote: post #33

One thing that I haven't heard yet is that Google+ is the worst name they could ever come up with! "+"? Are you kidding me? On the other hand: here is a feature that would help G+ to take of: Tight integration with Android (2.1 and above at least!!! not 3.1) with android video hangout over wifi and 3G for free(!) international! A tough move, I know, but without something on this scale, this could just be another wave…

The worst of it is, if you google "Google+", the site is the 4th result. If you google "Google +", it doesn't even show up. I guess Google doesn't hire SEO experts?

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Post by For_Iconoclasm »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #39

How do you bold and italicize on Facebook? I'm not aware of the ability. Personally I think having a Word interface for a textarea is pretty darn geeky. Using Markdown or some other markup language is better solution since those who don't know just won't use it.

Facebook Notes support simple HTML. You can't use bold or italics anywhere else, to my knowledge.

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Post by nextparadigms »

mgkimsal wrote: post #59
kschrader wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that you're fooling yourself if you don't think that G+ is going to have Farmville on it soon. It's too big of a draw and too big of a money maker for it to not have them.

I really dunno about that. I suspect there will be some, but they only flourish with network effects. If people on g+ don't play them now, they won't invite others to play, etc. And why would you leave facebook to play the same game in a different chrome setting? If there's some g+-only games, I'd see that happening.

I just hope it doesn't degrade into what Facebook has become because of all the useless game shares. I'm probably ok with seeing a game on my feed that a friend +1'ed or shared something about it once, but I don't want to see 20 shares in a day with his achievements in the game.

Google doesn't need to enable that, because they don't really have to make money by taking a cut from the game developers. So I hope they are much more strict with what developers can enable for users to share.

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Post by adamdecaf »

To bold text you surround that text with asterisks. Like this* GEEKY ALERT! Italicize? Put underscores around the text. Strikeout? Put hyphens around it.*

Really? The most trivial markdown syntax is for the Geeks only? I don't want to live in that world; that sounds like a nightmare of truly incompetent users.

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