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Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by kanamekun »

goldensaucer wrote: post #9
suivix wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please explain what this means? The blog post says that anyone can join the project.

You can host Google Apps on your own domain, like s.archer@isis.org, but you can't register for a G+ account using that email address. You can only use gmail addresses, and not everyone uses or wants to use a gmail address as their primary account.

Awesome Sterling Archer reference! http://archer.wikia.com/wiki/Sterling_Archer

Although it's unclear that Archer is set in the modern day and would have access to Google.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archer_(TV_series)

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by glhaynes »

Not at all sure if it was stupid of them to wait this long to let everybody in (you want socializing on your social network!) or brilliant because now they'll get a lot more press right when the buzz seemed to be dying down.

One also wonders how this route will affect their demographics long-term... it's got a bit of a "geeky" slant so far, which seems to be working for them, but might not be in their best interests against Facebook.

Edit: kadabra9 makes a good point in saying that Facebook can (and rapidly seems to be!) copying/nullifying any advantage that Google+ provided so perhaps they shot themselves in the foot by not growing as big and as fast as they could. Time will tell.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by seabee »

goldensaucer wrote: post #9
suivix wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please explain what this means? The blog post says that anyone can join the project.

You can host Google Apps on your own domain, like s.archer@isis.org, but you can't register for a G+ account using that email address. You can only use gmail addresses, and not everyone uses or wants to use a gmail address as their primary account.

I actually set up another Google profile using an email account managed by Apps, and this works fine for me. But it's not the solution I want since you have to switch users whenever you want to use Plus.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by suivix »

seabee wrote: post #23
goldensaucer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can host Google Apps on your own domain, like s.archer@isis.org, but you can't register for a G+ account using that email address. You can only use gmail addresses, and not everyone uses or wants to use a gmail address as their primary account.

I actually set up another Google profile using an email account managed by Apps, and this works fine for me. But it's not the solution I want since you have to switch users whenever you want to use Plus.

It's advantageous to have them on separate accounts in case you are arbitrarily banned from Google Plus. This way it has no chance of affecting your other services. It would devastate me if I lost my main email.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by noarchy »

pycassa wrote: post #17

google plus is like the bing of social networks

I'm almost willing to be that more people are using Bing, relative to Bing's main competition. G+ has to get the buzz back, or this risks becoming Wave, Part 2.

Edit: I deserve some flack for using the word "buzz", I know ;)

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by laacz »

sp332 wrote: post #14

Why 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…

I don't think that's the reason. 99.9% uptime is plenty. Uptime in SLA is defined as "Monthly Uptime Percentage", which is explained as follows (http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/sla.html):

"Monthly Uptime Percentage" means total number of minutes in a calendar month minus the number of minutes of Downtime suffered in a calendar month, divided by the total number of minutes in a calendar month.

For average month of length 30.4 days (~43776 minutes in total) that means acceptable downtime of 437.something minutes or 7 hours of combined unavailability.

Minding all of that, there is also a term "Google Apps Covered Services", which is explained as:

"Google Apps Covered Services" means the Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Talk, Google Docs, Google Groups and Google Sites components of the Service. This does not include the Gmail Labs functionality, Google Apps - Postini Services, Gmail Voice or Video Chat components of the Service.

So, legally speaking, there is no uptime guarantee for Google+.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by suivix »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #15
Hyena wrote: post #11

Time 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.

I find it very interesting that they aren't using Gmail or Google search to heavily push or advertise it.

Re: Google+ Opens to All

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Post by SandB0x »

noarchy wrote: post #27
pycassa wrote: post #17

google plus is like the bing of social networks

I'm almost willing to be that more people are using Bing, relative to Bing's main competition. G+ has to get the buzz back, or this risks becoming Wave, Part 2. Edit: I deserve some flack for using the word "buzz", I know ;)

> G+ has to get the buzz back

Not a great choice of words there!

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