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Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by ktsmith » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:07 AM UTC

joeguilmette wrote: post #18

amjith wrote: post #5

And it's already closed. Honestly, what's with this stupid game?

https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153/posts?tab=XX not sure if you need an acct to read the post: Hey Google+ folks! As I bet you've noticed, we are facing pretty incredible demand for Google+ invites. As Engineering Director of Google+, I wanted to take a moment to explain why we're growing the system slowly. First, we want to make sure our infrastructure scales so the service remains fast and reliable. Seco…

You don't need a + account to read public posts. The included link though appears to be a profile link and not to a specific post so when I clicked on it a different post was at the top of the stream. The following link should go straight to the post in question exclusively: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153/posts/Gbg31WL6...

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by dawie » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:08 AM UTC

random42 wrote: post #17

If anyone need an invite, feel free to send me an email for the same. Email is in the profile. Edit - I have got around 30 requests. I will process them in FIFO manner, by the end of the day.

I pinged you. Would love an invite.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by pilgrim689 » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:14 AM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #7

Ugh, I have an email titled "... invited you to join Google+" but it's really just a bunch of shared items and clicking them doesn't let me in. Anyone care to invite me? gabriel.d@gmail.com

I noticed that a stored cookie was preventing me from signing in g+ after being invited. I opened an incognito window and voilà! I was able to sign in :) Maybe this applies to your case?

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by dilap » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:18 AM UTC

ditojim wrote: post #21

tednaleid wrote: post #20

Annoyed that people with a Google Apps account can't join google+, when trying to join the error message is: "Oops... you need a Google profile to use this feature." "Google Profiles is not available for your organization." This is apparently something that Google has been promising for a while now, I also recently went through the pain of migrating my domain over to supposedly link up to Google Profile, but it's sti…

looks like google is working on this. i think it makes sense to roll this out to consumers first and harden it for businesses. https://plus.google.com/100940716892313727285/posts/Cy9ggc6y...

I dunno, it seems crazy that Google constantly treats their paying customers like second-class citizens.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by mbesto » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:19 AM UTC

tushar199 wrote: post #26

I have some invite left, send me your mail id from my profile or via contact from my website. (both in my about)

I sent you a mail via your contact page. Thanks!

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by tednaleid » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:27 AM UTC

dilap wrote: post #34

ditojim wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

looks like google is working on this. i think it makes sense to roll this out to consumers first and harden it for businesses. https://plus.google.com/100940716892313727285/posts/Cy9ggc6y...

I dunno, it seems crazy that Google constantly treats their paying customers like second-class citizens.

Agreed, the people that have their vanity domains backed by Google Apps are the hard core user base with lots of influence over other people. The kind of taste-makers that google desperately wants to get on Google+.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by balakk » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:27 AM UTC

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs?

For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153

Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by dendory » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:33 AM UTC

Am I the only one finding this whole thing fairly uninteresting? It's not like if it was a brand new, revolutionary service. Now I'm not knocking off Google Plus, but it is just a Facebook clone, perhaps better, but all this buzz around how invites are limited and everyone wants to get in seems like an attention grabber more than anything else.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by heed » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:38 AM UTC

balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

plus.ly

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by seldo » Thu, Jul 07, 2011, 5:39 AM UTC

balakk wrote: post #37

I'm curious, what's with the cruddy URLs? For eg: https://plus.google.com/113882113745075873153 Why the gargantuan number? Yeah, it's in trial, but still..

It's a strange irony that Google, the driving force behind the invention of SEO, often fail to bother with it themselves, even on extremely high-profile products.

As noted, Google Profiles have meaningless, unguessable URLs: https://plus.google.com/112349855959838705650

Items in the Chrome app store are similarly opaque: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aidgmjkfmbhldhnhko... (As are all Chrome extensions:) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ddngkjbldiejbheifc...

YouTube videos have no title information at all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfQhfYA2cH8

Orkut (a low blow I realize): http://www.orkut.com/Main#Profile?uid=16458042622225437726

News topics: http://news.google.com/news/more?pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&...

It confuses me.