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Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…
"You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow." For some reason it doesn't let me add anything by using that button. I can manually select each one and add them using the popup :)
Silly error... I don't (currently) use G+ on a daily basis, so this error message is a bit facile - I haven't even touched G+ today, so either the HN shared circle is too big, or it's reached it's own daily limit.
Edit: apparently the limit is 1000, so just add the shared circle from a posting that has https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts/DaWro5Hp... )
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#83I can't find this feature. I guess it's because I'm logged into a G+ account via Google Apps for Enterprise? I find Google's rollouts for Google Apps customers a huge source of confusion. You'd think they'd get that under control by now. Anyway, looks like a killer feature that will slowly become indispensable.
It's not yet rolled out to all users, regardless of whether they're Apps customers.
I see. I was able to find it on my non-Apps for Enterprise account.
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
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Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.
Yes! Leave it to Google to screw up privacy, I don't use G+ much but this right here has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I would say it's intentionally convoluted to get people to have poorly set settings (more "sharing"), but let's face it, Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design (they're engineers!). Anyway, I spent 20 minutes frantically trying to figure out how to handle gChat privacy settings…
Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design
This is false. Google has many staff UI designers and does tons of internal testing and UI research. (We have rooms with one-way mirrors all over the place, just for UI research.) It's likely that you find the privacy settings difficult because Google+ does a lot, and privacy settings are, in fact, difficult.
Very scary. What else are they going to "integrate" without asking me??
Why is this scary, other than the fact that it's different from what's happened in the past? Was the Chat / Mail integration scary too?
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doh. And now I have a whole bunch of people showing up in my chat client. Is there a way to disable that? I see the options for 'Who can start a Messenger conversation with you?' but they are somewhat limited and that's not the option I'm quite looking for.
Yes! Leave it to Google to screw up privacy, I don't use G+ much but this right here has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I would say it's intentionally convoluted to get people to have poorly set settings (more "sharing"), but let's face it, Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design (they're engineers!). Anyway, I spent 20 minutes frantically trying to figure out how to handle gChat privacy settings…
>DO THIS BEFORE YOU JOIN!
From my experience, you can do this even after you join.
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#86Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! Leave it to Google to screw up privacy, I don't use G+ much but this right here has left a bitter taste in my mouth. I would say it's intentionally convoluted to get people to have poorly set settings (more "sharing"), but let's face it, Google's hilarious UI's come from their aversion to design (they're engineers!). Anyway, I spent 20 minutes frantically trying to figure out how to handle gChat privacy settings…
>DO THIS BEFORE YOU JOIN! From my experience, you can do this even after you join.
Yep, it took me all of three seconds to reverse this setting (admittedly, when I had been told where to look).
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
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https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts it's just a page. if I understand correctly what's going on on the page, we need to add people to our own circle every time they publish the updated circle. //edit: it looks fine except people who write public posts in their native language which I do not understand. I hope the author thought about spam prevention or we'll get lots of 'funny videos and pictures' pro…
I wish posts had a native language the are posted in, since I have friends in Mexico that post things both in English and Spanish, I have no desire to grok their Spanish posts, so the ability to filter circles or the main stream based on certain things is something Google+ as a whole needs.
Not to mention that Google could very easily set filters up to detect the language used.
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#88I added myself to this circle when it was first announced. Today I've gained over 1000 followers! Wondered why and found this post. Interesting to see that 89 votes and 34 comments leads to around 1000 people taking action. Makes you realise how big this community is!
Me too - I'm afraid it's just a bunch of marketers or spammers who found it as a way to broadcast directly to HN crowd. I guess we'll know soon..
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#89Isn't the whole point that if these Hacker News G+ results are good they should be shown to everyone and if they aren't then they should not. This isn't a 'social' problem it's a ranking problem, right?
Yes and no. Yes, in that part of what you do is to tell Google "I trust these people" and give them higher ranking than random "search engine optimized" pages. No, in that someone who follow the hacker news circle and search for "android" will likely prefer results about programming and marketing android applications, which are not the optimal results for the general public. So the social graph does to things: it sta…
The example Google gives is that you can now type "photos" and see pictures of your family and friends. Instead of going to some other site and navigating, you just type your desires into Chrome's URL bar and the Right Thing automatically shows up. (There are some internal goals for this, but I'm not sure which ones are public... but this will only get cooler as time goes on.)
Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go to https://plus.google.com/106419647632534512037/posts and, in one of the "Hacker News has shared a circle with you" posts, click the blue "View shared circle" button. Name the circle and voila, you now have a circle in your Google+ account with all the HN people who signed up on http://hngp.axxim.net/ Edit: I forgot to warn you that several hundred people will add you to their circles, and you will get notificati…
"You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow." For some reason it doesn't let me add anything by using that button. I can manually select each one and add them using the popup :)
It's fixed now. They splitted the main circle in circles with 999 people each.