Time to see whether it will fly or the slowdown was a sign of trouble.
Google+ Opens to All
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#12...almost everyone. "Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Learn More." I should have known better than to get my hopes up...
Indeed. It's tough to be a fan of Google's when they do this to paying Apps users with every new product.
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#13...almost everyone. "Google+ is not yet available for Google Apps. Learn More." I should have known better than to get my hopes up...
This. They must have really backed themselves into a corner somehow when they were building Google Profiles. I. Will. Not. Open. A. Secondary. Account. Ever.
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#14Why is everyone complaining about Apps accounts not being able to sign up? It says right on the "features" page http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html "99.9% uptime SLA" which means that if they add a service with less than 99.9% uptime, they're going to lose money. They haven't even finished writing Google+ for normal users, there's no way they can make promises about support yet.
Edit: according to this, you're not even logging in to the same service. http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/static.py?page=gu... That's... not optimal.
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#15Time to see whether it will fly or the slowdown was a sign of trouble.
I think this is probably one of the key things they are thinking. Which is it has enough users that they probably have a handle on scaling it and knowing the resources needed per 1000 users, and its fallen off the front page (its not the 'hot ticket' it once was).
I've always found that multiple people editing a document was a killer feature. And with hangouts that seems to make it even better.
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#16Except for Google Apps users
Could you please explain what this means? The blog post says that anyone can join the project.
Google offers a service called Google Apps. With this service, you can use a branded subset of their products at a non-Google domain. For example, you could use Gmail with a bob@mycompany.com address.
Because Google Apps is largely targeted at business/enterprise customers, it takes a while for some new updates and products to make their way into it; presumably the lag time is so that the the paid product can be kept as stable as possible.
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#17google plus is like the bing of social networks
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#18The whole "real names" fiasco[1] diminished my excitement for the platform.
1: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2011/08/04/real-na...
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#19Too late, guys.
Facebook is already copying the features that make G+ cool/useful (circles, etc), and the one big, inherent advantage you had in your favor (Your user base, e.g every Google account) you alienated by keeping it "invite only" for too long.
Either open it to everyone sooner, or hold off on this prolonged "invite period" so you don't risk confusing / alienating people that want to try G+ but can't.
G+ feels like its the same 10 guys posting the same thing over and over, while Facebook feels like, well.. Facebook.
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#20Why is everyone complaining about Apps accounts not being able to sign up? It says right on the "features" page http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/business/features.html "99.9% uptime SLA" which means that if they add a service with less than 99.9% uptime, they're going to lose money. They haven't even finished writing Google+ for normal users, there's no way they can make promises about support yet. Edit: according…
Non-apps services aren't subject to the same SLA. If you go into the domain management UI, they are very explicit about this.