Google+ Opens to All • Hacker News Board

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by bostonvaulter2 » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 4:23 AM UTC

ry0ohki wrote: post #71

ary wrote: post #64

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It would be wise to note that G+ achieved 10 million+ users in a matter of weeks . Comparing Facebook and Google+ along similar time frames shows that Google+ is doing phenomenally well. The comparisons aren't really that important (to me at least). It's possible that these products can (and will) coexist . What is with the need to pronounce a winner as soon as possible? A product like Google+ is going to take a whil…

The rapid growth of Google Plus compared to Facebook isn't really a valid comparison. When you are the number one site on the Internet (probably #1 or #2 email provider too?) and you add a new black bar to every page letting people know about your service, it's no surprise you gain X million users overnight. I agree with your thoughts that it's too early to count G+ as a failure just yet, but something about their ro…

IIRC correctly Yahoo mail is still a larger provider of email addresses than gmail, maybe hotmail too.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by sigstop » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 4:35 AM UTC

guelo wrote: post #116

ineedtosleep wrote: post #48

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Overall, (and, forgive me, since I'm going relatively OT here) I've noticed a lot of hostility towards Google in every Google post. I've not been with HN for too long, so I don't know if this is what partially defines HN, but I'm starting to get irked by it.

I think a lot of it has to do with the HN love for Apple. HN used to love Google until they became Apple's enemy #1.

What I find more disturbing is the influx of Microsoft friendly commenters. Articles on various MS products are frequent and receive a lot of praise.

Articles that point out how MS is crippling innovation through extortion of Linux users receive relatively little attention.

Google is an extremely open company (with respect to user data and user rights as well as contributions to open source software). However, most comments about Google products and contributions seem to take the most negative view possible. Case in point, today's article on Richard Stallman's comments on Android focused on how he was critical of Android, mostly ignoring that he said "Android is a major step towards an ethical, user-controlled, free-software portable phone..." Android is still the most open major platform out there. It's put Linux on millions of devices.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by nhebb » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 5:01 AM UTC

nl wrote: post #151

nhebb wrote: post #149

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I never signed up for +1, yet I saw +1 buttons next to all my search results. While not a TV or radio ad blitz, that is a form of marketing.

+1 isn't the same as Google+ +1 is a social recommendation and bookmarking service integrated into 3rd party websites and Google's search. It is orthogonal to Google+ (although both Google+ and +1 use the same social graph).

I guess I'm suffering from internet burnout, but I wasn't paying attention to the differentiation between Google+ and Google's +1. If they're not related then that's a really poor naming strategy.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by bad_user » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 5:47 AM UTC

It isn't open to Google Apps users.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by samrat » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 7:04 AM UTC

And when will it be open for those under eighteen years of age?

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by tintin » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 7:16 AM UTC

badclient wrote: post #156

Google+ is dead.

And why would a company bother to continue a services that is dead?

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by yason » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 8:02 AM UTC

Is there a Facebook application already that posts from Google+ to Facebook and imports replies and likes back to Google+? The mass of people on Facebook is a barrier to entry and they have to consider it somehow.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by badclient » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 8:15 AM UTC

tintin wrote: post #166

badclient wrote: post #156

Google+ is dead.

And why would a company bother to continue a services that is dead?

Desperation.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by Jem » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 8:48 AM UTC

pilif wrote: post #81

binaryorganic wrote: post #13

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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.

I had my Gmail account way before they even introduced Apps accounts, let alone before I migrated my company mail to Google Apps. So, let me tell you this: You made a good decision. While dealing with multiple accounts on the desktop is annoying, it's utterly terrible on mobile because their slow-as-hell multiple sign-in feature doesn't work on mobile . Yeah. While on the desktop it's annoying but not that much of a…

What's worse is that since "fixing" the apps accounts I now have different services signed up with both my apps and (empty, useless) gmail account. I have to play a guessing game and hope I'm logged in to the right one to find what I need.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by Jem » Wed, Sep 21, 2011, 8:50 AM UTC

toyg wrote: post #129

muyuu wrote: post #106

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- Privacy considerations - Identity theft - Stalking

Yeah, because Facebook is SO private, and completely devoid of impostors and stalkers. Honestly, if this is the worst that anti-googlers can come up with, well... it isn't much.

I'm not anti-Google; they virtually own my entire life (slightly scary). I still think they fucked up over the real name issue.