Announcing Google+ Events • Hacker News Board

Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Post by augustl » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

judofyr wrote: post #10

augustl wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's interesting. I like Google+, but none of my friends use it. Inviting them to events would be one way of getting them started. Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone.

> Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone. You can do this now. Just type in an email address in the field where you add people/circles. The user who receives the invite can set his availability-status without having a + account. Anything else (posting, commenting, adding photos etc.) requires an account though.

That's great! I'm trying this now. Hopefully Google isn't too clever here, though... I know that of the people I e-mailed use Google Apps, so perhaps Google detects that it's an Google Apps address and enforces Google+ account creation.

Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Post by kozmikyak » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 9:48 PM UTC

AndrewDucker wrote: post #2

Would love to, but they _still_ don't have the Google Apps for Domains migration tool working.

_This_. I'm frustrated already with having to attach my cellphone to an @gmail.com address (yes, you can have Google Apps for Domains addresses as secondaries, but you're not billed through it).

Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Post by moah » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:43 PM UTC

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #39

jgroome wrote: post #3

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…

Just to reiterate, you can invite people using email addresses. They don't have to use G+, or even have a Google account, I believe.

I tested that with a yahoo address yesterday. And the yahoo address never showed up on G+ event page as Not Responded even though there was no error when I entered it. And I checked the yahoo mailbox and there was no invite email.

Re: Announcing Google+ Events

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Post by Matt_Cutts » Wed, Jul 11, 2012, 1:14 AM UTC

moah wrote: post #53

Matt_Cutts wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just to reiterate, you can invite people using email addresses. They don't have to use G+, or even have a Google account, I believe.

I tested that with a yahoo address yesterday. And the yahoo address never showed up on G+ event page as Not Responded even though there was no error when I entered it. And I checked the yahoo mailbox and there was no invite email.

Wild. I'll see if I can test that out myself. It's possible that Yahoo was marking the email invites as spam, which would be a separate issue.