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Re: G+ invite open again

#81
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..

Maybe they want users to be searching for users and sell more ads, that's their main thing anyways.

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#82
post #67

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…

I can't help but feel like they really want this to succeed, and are betting the entire company on it. From what I've heard, Google+ has to potential to turn out huge. And making sure there aren't any bugs before letting everybody in is simply a must for them - They just can't afford to have any problems with this last attempt at social.

I also think the hype you're talking about only happens in a very small group of geeks. The average guy on the street still hasn't heard of Google+, and until he has and is willing to try it out, Google will lose the social war. Convincing the fb masses to bother is an extremely difficult task, and Google will need all the hype it can get. Right know, I think they're doing exactly the right thing.

Re: G+ invite open again

#83
post #67

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…

I'm surprised that so many people don't take their testing claims at face-value. They've done it before. Many other companies do it all the time.

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#84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Don't use real users as testers, jeesh... Maybe google should invest in some QA.

Testing at scale without real users is quite difficult. You might as well limit the number of initial users so that you can try to iron out the worst bugs before allowing tens of millions of users. Doing a beta for an online service is standard practice - other websites do it, even online videogames do it.

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#85

Seriously, I can't find the invite function in UI. Where is it? Do I just add people to a circle?

This is what I'd been doing:

1. Go to https://plus.google.com/circles

2. The first rectangle before the listing of your contacts should "Add a new person"

3. Enter email address of invitee and hit Enter

4. Enter a name to associate with above email address, select Circle to add into, and hit Save

I'm not entirely sure that this is the 'correct' way - I was just looking around for a place to enter arbitrary email addresses and this seemed like it. A couple of chaps I'd added this way got in, a couple more had to try a few times, and most of them see the "we've temporarily exceeded capacity" message.

Re: G+ invite open again

#86
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..

I noticed that profiles.google.com vanity urls redirect to Plus.

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#87
I wish I had Google's problems. "We have too many people who want our service, yes we currently have sufficient infrastructure, and yes we designed it to scale form day 1, but its not completely tested yet... fortunately you guys will wait for me to be comfortable"

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#88
post #11

Can someone please hook me up? matty69@gmail.com Thank you Who ever sent me the invite. I have no idea what to click. I follow the post link and all i get is a 404 error :) Thanks for trying

Same here, I'd love an invite... email: hn@gom-jabbar.org

send it here too, wud love to get the first feel.. sbaldeep@gmail.com

Re: G+ invite open again

#89

Has anyone looked at the source html of the Google+ pages? Anyone have any clue what's going on there? Is this the output from some compiler (Which apparently is generating the css along with the html) or some obfuscation technique?

Odds are it's output from GWT, the same Java framework Google writes most of their apps in.

Re: G+ invite open again

#90
Am I just old or is anyone else completely uninterested in Google+ ?

Why is Google going to be any less evil than Facebook (or Twitter) ? Hasn't everyone read some of the infamous yet numerous quotes from Eric Schmidt (Google CEO, anti-privacy, unless it's his income/house data) ?

This is any antagonistic law enforcement's wet dream - all cloud data is legally accessed without warrants or notification these days - hey this person protested at an anti-war rally or the DNC/RNC conventions: let's lookup all their circles and put them on the no-fly list just to be careful. What would not have happened years ago because of the cost is now super-easy because you've spoon-fed it to them.

Or am I just old?

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