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Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by buster »

fpgeek wrote: post #47
justincormack wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I accidentally created an account during Android phone activation, as it was very unclear (already had one on other account and didnt want another). They could get up to 700k a day like this, maybe this is most of them.

Were you activating a Galaxy Nexus? So far as I know, pre-Ice Cream Sandwich Android releasesare also pre-Google+, so they don't prompt you for anything Google+-related during setup.

Not sure what he did, but i activated my Galaxy Nexus yesterday and it's pretty much the same procedure as with the Nexus One and other Stock Android ROMs.. It's only asking for your Google Account, and since that includes you G+ account there is no seperate "create/login with G+" in the setup procedure. Wouldn't even make sense..

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Post by pgtart »

i like neither facebook or google+ in holland there is hives, much better.

I'm confused why these big players, make such horrible user interfaces to manage friend contacts, it is really puzzling me. (try to find back your video's on facebook) (try to manage permissions) (try to upload, try to ...etc etc etc.. its all awfull)

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Post by pgtart »

edpark1 wrote: post #55

I wonder if Facebook is becoming the new Myspace in terms of quality of content shared. With Google you have the sense that some people are using it to replace their blogs and possibly connecting on a more professional level whereas Facebook is more about catching up with others and sharing random thoughts/opinions via short messages and likes/dislikes. The first one to have a tighter integration with Twitter and has…

a blog ?.. Thats something from 1980, not that facebook/google solved what's the new thing far from that.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by robert_nsu »

vidarh wrote: post #97
cytzol wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've never been a fan of Facebook. This is something that's puzzled me . Is it the privacy implications, or just a general dislike for the company? The way I see it, it's a publishing platform for posts shorter than blog entries and longer than tweets. I read things that my friends write, and I write things for them to read. While there are games and pages and things, you don't have to use them. I've had friends sw…

A big part of it is that it is just too much work to clean up what you see to a point where I don't have to wade through massive amounts of pure junk to see anything that's interesting. No, I don't care what you had for dinner Meanwhile Google+ makes it exceedingly easy to group people in ways that makes filtering easy, and now with the slider to let you "mix" how much from each circle appears in your full feed, I ca…

> Google+ is already more usable for me than Facebook, and they already have far better tools available to deal with an information overload that doesn't really exist there yet. I'm far more confident that as more people I know starters using Google+, I won't drown in updates I don't care about.

Facebook lets you tone down updates and the like as well. Also, have you tried managing a page with Google+ yet? Let me let you in on a secret: they did not make it very intuitive.

> A big part of it is that it is just too much work to clean up what you see to a point where I don't have to wade through massive amounts of pure junk to see anything that's interesting. > No, I don't care what you had for dinner

That's not a Facebook problem, that's a "people" problem. Whenever there are people involved, you will know what someone had for breakfast, lunch, afternoon snack, dinner, etc.

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Post by alain94040 »

cheald wrote: post #19

All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure. I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely for API testing. I can count the number of things I've posted to Facebook in the past year on one ha…

I dislike monopolies using their monopoly power to eliminate a competitor. Even when the product they come up with is technically superior.

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Post by ww520 »

spiredigital wrote: post #77

Google+'s killer feature (at least from what I've seen) is Circles. Not being able to easily control who sees what on Facebook is the reason I don't post more personal content to it. Being able to easily control what I share and with who - like I do in the real world - would make me 10x more likely to become an active participant on a social network. It might be time to actually sign up for an account....

Circle sounds good in theory but it's a pig to use in practice. Sign up and see for yourself.

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Post by mvgoogler »

ward wrote: post #92
mvgoogler wrote: post #78

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I'm on the G+ photos team. Do you have an example of a slow loading image? If you can send me a link I could take a look. Latency is definitely something we care about.

In hopes you'll still see this, is there some sort of obvious Google+/Google Calendar integration in the works? Or just somewhere an official roadmap available for the Google+ development?

Sorry - I can't comment about any upcoming features or plans.

Is there something specific you're looking for? I could pass it on to the product managers.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by mvgoogler »

fl3tch wrote: post #80
mvgoogler wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on the G+ photos team. Do you have an example of a slow loading image? If you can send me a link I could take a look. Latency is definitely something we care about.

Edit: Well wouldn't you know, this just happened: http://i.imgur.com/ESojw.png Typical of what I see. This is a fresh Firefox profile, no cache, no extensions. It's also not a network problem, since I don't see this on other sites, even other Google properties like search or Gmail. It's unique to G+

Thanks for the screenshot!

Two quick follow-up questions: On that screenshot, it looks like it's the main profile picture and the profile picture thumbnails for the circles that are slow to load (but the images from the stream are loaded). Is that typically what you see, or is that just what happened in this case?

Do have a sense for whether this happens more often when you're looking at profiles of people who are in a lot of circles (like Tim O'Reilly)?

Thanks for your help.

Re: Google+ passes 62 million users. Adding 625,000 new users per day.

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Post by idspispopd »

cheald wrote: post #19

All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure. I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely for API testing. I can count the number of things I've posted to Facebook in the past year on one ha…

Google+ itself is a good service, but my distaste for it comes from taking a look at a "bigger picture", as this is not just about sharing cat photos and fart jokes online.

Let me begin by saying I don't hate it, I just see it as a poor decision as Google+ allows Google to make a verified and robust profile of me for sale or subpoena, while giving me very little more than what facebook already offers. (Keeping in mind that while the USA already has low-requirements for digital subpoenas, it's still heading towards a completely warrantless-everything approach for digital information.)

G+ picks up where GMail and Google Analytics weren't able to go:

- It will have my full name (with google killing off accounts that were using pseudonyms.)

- It has my phone number and contacts: With a Google+ on my phone it has access to my contacts, geographic location and phone number.

- It follows me around the web far better than what Analytics was able to achieve.

- It follows me around real life: It can know what I'm doing and where I'm doing it, even if it has nothing to do with the web such as tagging, GPS-photos from all current era mobile devices, events and location based ("geo-everything") services.

Then when I include other google-owned services such as search, maps, youtube & blogger. I'm left placing a huge amount of information and trust in a company that has a business model defined by profiling me, a history of providing information to the USA government (don't forget Chinese hacking) and a track record of storing more than what I bargained for (such as Google Desktop) with the later landing them in hot water with the EFF.

I take pause because I live in a country where there was raging debate about combining the profiles from various government run services as it gives the government an orwellian-like power over it's citizens (they remained separate). Plus it provides an obvious target for those looking to abuse the data. When you consider that in the judicial system, a judge must approve the fishing and combining of this sort of information, I'm not about to hand over the same level of information to a company free from oversight.

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Post by yoklov »

RexRollman wrote: post #93
starnix17 wrote: post #30

Don't forget, if you create a Google account you automatically have a Google+ account. I made a new Gmail account for my mom a few days, now she has a Google+ account too but I doubt she'll ever touch it.

That's lame. People should only have a Google+ account if they actually want it. I personally find this behavior distasteful and Google is obviously using it to artificially inflate their numbers.

Why would Google want to fragment its userbase by having to separate classes of accounts, Google+ accounts and regular ol' Google accounts. That would be lamer.
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