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Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by jrockway »

Daniel14 wrote: post #82
trezor wrote: 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…

are betting the entire company on it

So you're saying that if people don't like Google Plus, they are going to stop clicking AdWords, move their email to Hotmail, and start using Yahoo for search? That seems very unlikely to me.

This is just a regular product launch. It gets a lot of hype because people like their friends but hate Facebook.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by hallowtech »

You can invite people by adding their email/gmail as a person to share a post with on your stream. You don't need a send invite button. I was able to invite ppl even when it was supposedly closed last week.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by rogercosseboom »

jrockway wrote: post #91
Daniel14 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

are betting the entire company on it So you're saying that if people don't like Google Plus, they are going to stop clicking AdWords, move their email to Hotmail, and start using Yahoo for search? That seems very unlikely to me. This is just a regular product launch. It gets a lot of hype because people like their friends but hate Facebook.

I think what the comment was referring to was that, in Google's view, the social market is becoming more and more important to the greater internet community. Not having a viable product in this space could cost Google dearly later– specifically in those areas you sarcastically mentioned.

Re: G+ invite open again

#95

Post by jamesbritt »

dorkwagon wrote: post #58
jannes wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's your gmail account ID. It hasn't changed since you registered for gmail. I remember that the old Google profiles (before Google+ and before the Profiles relaunch) had an option to choose between a private and a public profile URL. The public version of the URL had your gmail username in it. The private one didnt, it had the your account ID in it. Apparrently they turned off the option for public profile URLs s…

The option of having your username in the URL is still there, but it looks like the setting needs to be toggled again for the new profile scheme. Check near the bottom on https://profiles.google.com/me/about/edit/d . Edit: Strangely, the option shows up only sometimes when I click the edit button.

Too funny. I tried to view that url on my G2 and got a page saying my browser was not supported.

Re: G+ invite open again

#96

Post by cletus »

trezor wrote: 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…

> With Google creating this much artificial scarcity to bring buzz

Oh dear God do I get sick of hearing complaints about the "illusion of scarcity" every time somebody can't get something obviously in demand.

Do you have any idea how many moving parts there are to something like this?

The only message I get from your post is that you can't separate your opinion from reality (like so many others).

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by Daniel14 »

jrockway wrote: post #91
Daniel14 wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

are betting the entire company on it So you're saying that if people don't like Google Plus, they are going to stop clicking AdWords, move their email to Hotmail, and start using Yahoo for search? That seems very unlikely to me. This is just a regular product launch. It gets a lot of hype because people like their friends but hate Facebook.

> This is just a regular product launch.

My point was that Google is putting a lot of effort into competing with Facebook, and that they're willing to use all their other products to succeed with Plus. Think about their bonuses being tied to social, Larry Page as the new CEO, the +1 button in the search results, the renaming of Blogger and Picasa, the redesign of Calender, Gmail etc., the new notification bar accross all Google sites... These aren't just regular product updates, but show how serious Google really is about getting into social, ie keeping facebook at bay.

Re: G+ invite open again

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Post by Terretta »

shrikant wrote: post #85
unicornporn wrote: post #55

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 addr…

Once you add people to circles, there's a bar across the bottom of window offering to explicitly invite those people to Google+.

Click to pop a dialog listing the people as tags or buttons, add more if you like, then invite.

If you leave and come back, the bar isn't there.

This is the same popup shown by the Invite button on your home page when it's there, just a different way of reaching it.

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