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Might just be me, but with Google opening and closing invitations like this all the time, it's not even "like Gmail all over again". It's much worse. With Google creating this much artificial scarcity to bring buzz, demand and publicity, they are really creating immense expectations and putting themselves up for slaughter. People are going crazy right now trying to get invites, to find the invites closed, their recei…
And G's announced goal of minimizing bugs (as the user base scales) seems legit.
Might just be me, but with Google opening and closing invitations like this all the time, it's not even "like Gmail all over again". It's much worse. With Google creating this much artificial scarcity to bring buzz, demand and publicity, they are really creating immense expectations and putting themselves up for slaughter. People are going crazy right now trying to get invites, to find the invites closed, their recei…
The fact that I can invite someone and then they can't get in is ridiculous. Do you think that person is going to try to get in again later? Probably not. And with only a handful of my invites getting in, my feed might as well be twitter with a lot of big public figures I followed. There's nothing personal there. It's a stupid way to launch a social service. Social is nothing without my network. So far I have to rate…
Well, they aren't, really. They're just using you to test their system, which I can understand.
Personally, if I got an invite, I'd use it to look around a bit, and then wait for the whole thing to completely open up before actually starting to use it (which would make me a poor tester from Google's perspective).
Is this the output from some compiler (Which apparently is generating the css along with the html) or some obfuscation technique?
With all the hype aside, what's the real value proposition in one sentence?
Might just be me, but with Google opening and closing invitations like this all the time, it's not even "like Gmail all over again". It's much worse. With Google creating this much artificial scarcity to bring buzz, demand and publicity, they are really creating immense expectations and putting themselves up for slaughter. People are going crazy right now trying to get invites, to find the invites closed, their recei…
But not opening it up - as you say - risks expectations that are too high as the buzz continues to build.
Mind you - I never heard anyone complain about the quality of the iphone after they waited in line several days before hand. Not saying the google+ will meet expectations in the same way. But you know - it's seems preferable to have maximal buzz than minimal in just about all scenarios.
Seriously, I can't find the invite function in UI. Where is it? Do I just add people to a circle?
But it looks like this doesn't work anymore.