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Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

#11

Post by gfodor »

frisco wrote: post #9
cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.

Not all 'private invites' are created equal. Facebook isolated it to a single campus at a time. This meant all your friends were on Facebook, or none of them were. See the difference?

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

#12

Post by guywithabike »

frisco wrote: post #9
cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.

Not really. Facebook opened it up to entire colleges at a time. So once you were able to get on, most of your friends were able to, too.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by Skalman »

cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

They're hoping to do the same thing they did with Gmail: use artificial scarcity to their advantage.

It'll work if the people there get invites - that way it'll gradually expand until it opens up to everybody.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by SonicSoul »

heh.. somewhat ironically, minutes prior seeing this post I noticed the "+1" next to every search result. after exploring it told me that my "+1" will be used all over the web including ads. (am assuming this is part of Google+)

I immediately searched for a way to turn it off.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

#17

Post by [deleted] »

frisco wrote: post #9
cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.

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Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

#18

Post by trafficlight »

frisco wrote: post #9
cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

In fairness, Facebook did the same thing.

They really didn't. Facebook had a small target audience originally. You also had to know somebody to get it. Rather than having a closed beta, they were building scarcity and exclusivity at the beginning.

Re: Google Reveals Its Stealth Social Project, Google+

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Post by cskau »

cskau wrote: post #3
cryptoz wrote: post #2

From plus.google.com: > Google+ is in limited Field Trial Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone. Leave us your email address and we'll make sure you're the first to know when we're ready to invite more people. WHY?! WHY are they doing this again? They did this with Wave. Google, you cannot launch a social network while explicitly…

Worst part is their sign-up page has gone MIA - 404

It's back up: https://services.google.com/fb/forms/googleplus/

gogogo !

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