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Announcing Google+ Events

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Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Share instantly with Party Mode Snap photos during the event and share them with everyone at the party in real time, right from your phone. Thanks, but no, thanks. Life looks more and more like a Nathan Barley episode.

Nathan Barley has aged so well, hasn't it?

With things like Google Glass on the horizon, it's just going to get worse ..

Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Very cool-looking, especially the cover photo for events. Should companies/bands/artists and the like start taking G+ seriously, this will be a big selling point (they love little branding opportunities like that). Calendar integration: Just makes sense. Not really a feature so much as an obvious subfeature. "Party Mode" looks promising. I'd say the only thing I don't like about Facebook's events is the lack of a gro…

until the people I know are actually on Plus, G+ events are just going to be something else just for the geeks That should not a problem, as most of the people you know, have a Google account, and implicitly are subscribers of Google+

Sure. On paper, as a Google account holder, I'm a G+ user. But I'm not.

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Pretty poor implementation. Random people are inviting me to events and I see no way to block that. Linus says his homescreen is filled with invites - https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/Lwz4yjas...

Google, the default should be such that only people in your circles can invite you.

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It's a bad day to be a Wedding-organising startup.

Absolutely not. Managing the Google+ event(s) becomes just one more service you can provide. People who would downsize from a professional wedding organizer to Google+ event(s) weren't your bread-and-butter anyway.

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Pretty poor implementation. Random people are inviting me to events and I see no way to block that. Linus says his homescreen is filled with invites - https://plus.google.com/102150693225130002912/posts/Lwz4yjas... Google, the default should be such that only people in your circles can invite you.

Or if people outside your circles invite you it goes "somewhere else". This would be a perfect use for the (now gone?) Incoming.

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The Youtube flash video player is displayed on top of the create event form. (On my MBP screen). Looks like they haven't tested it with smaller screens.

my screen is 1080p and this still happens.
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