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Google releases Games for Google+

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Re: Google releases Games for Google+

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Post by Khao »

I love how Google has really taken time to address the problem number 1 with Facebook games : they are spam machines! Games in Google+ will feel more like real games (pc, mobile or console games) as in if I feel like playing a game and I see my friend also plays that game, then we can share scores and stuff. But when I'm not feeling for games, then games don't invade my news feed. What would be the point anyway in knowing my friend had a high score in a game I wouldn't play? It's only spam.

Clicking on that "Game" tab on Google+ will be just like opening Steam and seeing all your friends' activity and going "Cool, which game do I play now? Is there anyone online right now?" and I love that!

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Post by jerhinesmith »

AshleysBrain wrote: post #4

So are these games all HTML5? Or a combination of technologies? I can't find any info about that. Looks very cool though!

Definitely a combination of html, flash, etc. These aren't games developed by Google -- rather games running on Google's platform (similar to Facebook games).

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Post by alecco »

This is problematic given the current vulnerability to spam Google+ has. Anybody can friend you, via your own friends.To make it worse, Google will give you a red notice for this on every service, even search. I've been friended by multiple online media sociopaths through my friends.

Say Mr. X social media adds a few of your publicly listed friends. And some add him back. Then Mr. X adds all their friends by looking at their circles (both ways). This includes unlisted people. They add all of them. Again, some of them add them back without double-checking. This is reinforced when Google+ shows contacts in common. You think, hey this is a friend of a friend. Often they have more than 2 contacts in common.

It's either spreading like fire or my friends are particularly vulnerable to this, wich I doubt as most are tech-savvy.

I hope Google takes care of this issue before the Zyngas creep up and make the service as trashy as Facebook.

Edit: reworking examples to make it a bit more clear.

Re: Google releases Games for Google+

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Post by AshleysBrain »

jerhinesmith wrote: post #5
AshleysBrain wrote: post #4

So are these games all HTML5? Or a combination of technologies? I can't find any info about that. Looks very cool though!

Definitely a combination of html, flash, etc. These aren't games developed by Google -- rather games running on Google's platform (similar to Facebook games).

Cool. Would be nice to hear that they're definitely supporting HTML5 though!

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Post by munificent »

alecco wrote: post #7

This is problematic given the current vulnerability to spam Google+ has. Anybody can friend you, via your own friends.To make it worse, Google will give you a red notice for this on every service, even search. I've been friended by multiple online media sociopaths through my friends. Say Mr. X social media adds a few of your publicly listed friends. And some add him back. Then Mr. X adds all their friends by looking…

> Anybody can friend you and it will be shown across all Google pages, even search. I've been friended by multiple online media sociopaths through my friends.

I don't see how that leads to spam. Friendship isn't symmetric in G+. Media sociopaths can follow me all they want. If I don't follow them back, I don't see a word they write in my stream.

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