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Does it feel odd to anyone else that you click the "Request an invite" button and it doesn't ask who you are? Also nowhere on the page does it show my identity.
It was odd indeed. And I checked to see which account I was logged in under, and it wasn't my "normal" account. So I switched to my Gmail/Google+ account and re-clicked, and then it said "you've already requested an invite." Odd.
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Facebook has consistently done the same thing with all of their new features (Graph Search, Timeline, etc). I fail to see why this is so egregious?
In general people don't like ads for things they cannot have.
People literally lust into ads for "things they cannot have".
That's also part of the success of all the "Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous" style shows and magazines on the poor/middle class.
"Request an invite". Dear god, Google still thinking it's a cute little startup. It really is the Microsoft story all over again.
Seems like a smart decision to me. I probably wouldn't have cared about GMail if thirteen year old me didn't want an invite more than anything. Anyway, it's still a gradual rollout, just with hype. Seems like a smart decision to me if they don't overuse the gimmick.
A 13 year old wanted "more than anything" a ...Gmail invite of all things?
Google map was the one of the first web applications that revolutionized the web with Ajax. This new Google map could be another one that revolutionize the industry again with WebGL.
It is not ready for prime time and I shudder to think what people on older machines or laptops are going to experience.
Bing Maps are quite aware of the zip code change that happened to my neighborhood more than a year ago and can map my address quite well. Google Maps are still pointing to a location that does not exist in real world unfortunately. I'd have hoped that they fixed these things first.
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I don't really think it was stale or stagnated exactly. You probably saw recently a few posts about how much work goes into them and why exactly they're better than Apple's or Microsoft's. It's very subtle and fundamental stuff. They didn't change much, it's true, but that's because the competition was so bad and they leapfrogged them by so much at the beginning. We'll see how the new look works in action - I can't s…
In comparison to http://here.com Google Maps was stale.
"Request an invite". Dear god, Google still thinking it's a cute little startup. It really is the Microsoft story all over again.
Would you want a billion new users all slamming your brand new codebase and infrastructure all at the exact same time? Sure Google can handle scale better than anyone, but a stampede is still a stampede. Soft launches are way safer and easier to manage.
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Would you want a billion new users all slamming your brand new codebase and infrastructure all at the exact same time? Sure Google can handle scale better than anyone, but a stampede is still a stampede. Soft launches are way safer and easier to manage.
Google has been using A/B testing for quite some time I think; they even do it with Chrome nowadays. Wouldn't that work to manage load?