Google announces "Google+"

[ChazB]

Been playing around with G+ since yesterday. All I can say is Facebook will be ending up in the same graveyard as Myspace and Friendster

I wouldn't go THAT far, but it is a nice product with a TON of potential.

 

[Liquorpuki]

If you haven't tried it yet, get a bunch of your friends together and use the Hangout feature. Very cool

 

[MacDawg]

This just in, Google+ is now open to anyone with a Google account. Go to: plus.google.com and sign up

 

[GoCubsGo]

I'm not hooked on Google+ yet myself, I also took years to really make use of MySpace (it became my indie band stop). However, I read this article last night and have opted not to use Google+ for photos that I care about.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...photographers/2011/07/08/gIQAr2Ea3H_blog.html

 

[tablo13]

Sending invites, PM me.

This just in, Google+ is now open to anyone with a Google account. Go to: plus.google.com and sign up

Did they send all of them or something? It says "Keep Me Posted" on my other account.

 

[SXR]

This just in, Google+ is now open to anyone with a Google account. Go to: plus.google.com and sign up

Really? That's amazing. Lots of people gonna sign up now.

 

[iPhone1]

If you need an invite PM me and I'll make it so.

 

[MacDawg]

It has been off and on and hit and miss still as far as I can tell

This was apparently tweeted earlier...

 

[smithrh]

-1

I posted the JPG elsewhere, but I'll do so again. Of course, it's horribly incomplete, Google has much more than that, they also have (depending on how deep you've committed to Google):

* your AP's MAC address (via Streetview)
* your DNS lookups (via Google DNS servers)
* your photographs/metadata (via Picasa)
* your voicemails, if not entire conversations (via Google Voice)
* your location, direction and speed (via Google Maps)
* where you're interested in (Google Maps and Google Earth)
* what videos you like to watch (YouTube)
* ....

* Profit!

I'm not making value judgements here. If you want to use Google+, more power to you. But you _should_ know that you're handing more and higher order information to what winds up being the world's largest advertiser. Sure, there are benefits to doing so, but you probably should know what you're signing up for when you do this.

There, I'll get out of the way of the speeding freight train now!

 

[DeepIn2U]

To be honest I can really see a market for the Circles feature. Being a year out of college and 5 years out of high school, I have circles of friends from my home town, my high school, my college and work, as well as immediate and extended family. I think that Circles, as demonstrated here, represent a social reality—the fact that we interact with people in our different social circles differently, and that these groups don't necessarily intersect.

This was, in part, the genius of the original Facebook: it was limited in scope to your college, and therefore your friends from college. In the years since, Facebook has been diluted and washed out to where everybody you meet for more than 5 minutes wants to be your friend. But the reality is that we don't want to share everything with everyone (as much as Mark Zuckerberg & co would like). I currently have google groups email lists with my best buddies from high school and college—we can bounce stuff around that we would never post on each other's walls on Facebook, things that we know the rest of the group will be interested in, organize get togethers and so on. Circles really popped out at me as a smart, natural way interact with friends.

Think also of our you interact or communicate with business contacts as well! this is completely different than how ANY of us would act when around family and close personal friends or the friends you party with. Almost "two-faced" like but its a natural adaptation for 80% of the working force in the western world; you wouldn't even wear the same kind of clothes.

Been playing around with G+ since yesterday. All I can say is Facebook will be ending up in the same graveyard as Myspace and Friendster

interesting thought. If Google truly honors the secrecy and privacy of users and groups & circle's this could potentially cause issues for LinkedIn as well.

 

[maflynn]

It has been off and on and hit and miss still as far as I can tell

This was apparently tweeted earlier...

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I've been trying on and off and finally got in. I think its the games google likes to play on this stuff. Its like when they bid Pi on the nortel patents (and lost). sometimes these games work to their advantage and sometimes it doesn't.

 

[Votekinky06]

When it goes live will there be a way to just import your fb friends list?

 

[AAPLaday]

When it goes live will there be a way to just import your fb friends list?

A developer already made an extension that does this but it was quickly blocked by Facebook. But i have most of mine invited (most still waiting to get in though) as i sync my Mac address book contacts with gmail contacts. Im assuming it scans for contacts in my list and where i have an email address entered for them it suggests that i invite them to G+

 

[rick snagwell]

i have invites open again...if anyone needs in.

 

[0dev]

I'm not hooked on Google+ yet myself, I also took years to really make use of MySpace (it became my indie band stop). However, I read this article last night and have opted not to use Google+ for photos that I care about.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...photographers/2011/07/08/gIQAr2Ea3H_blog.html

That's a standard clause on all sorts of photo sharing sites (Twitpic also picked up some media attention recently for having the same thing in their ToS, for example).

As for Google+ monitoring your usage for ads, it lets you opt out of that when you register, which is more than I can say for Facebook.

Now I've been on G+ for a bit longer, and am building up more connections, I'm starting to warm to it. The web app works very well on my iPhone, too, though the basic one it shows on my BlackBerry is near enough useless.

 

[benhollberg]

The web app works very well on my iPhone, too, though the basic one it shows on my BlackBerry is near enough useless.

I can't stand the mobile web apps from Google+ on the iPhone and iPad. The iPad desktop viewer also doesn't work well at all.

 

[Rodimus Prime]

When it goes live will there be a way to just import your fb friends list?

yes there is.
Get a yahoo account. Have yahoo import all your facebook contacts.
Then export those contacts and them import them into your google contacts.

Guess what BOOM you have just imported your entire facebook account. Only problem is that it can flood your address book.

 

[kristoffer4]

Does anybody know if there is a way to only see your friends in you stream? I know I can switch to it but would like it to be just my friends as a default.

 

[alleycat]

It all looks like another method for Google to track you. Facebook for all its faults is still a much better deal.

 

[jbennardo]

Google+ runs out of disk space, floods inboxes with notification spam http://engt.co/qxMt0d

Ooops lol

 

[animezine]

snagged one!

 

[L0s7man]

The invites seem to be on and off. They let some people in, close it, only to reopen it a bit later.

From what I've seen G+ will be awesome. The Android App is excellent and there is a really cool group messaging service attached to it.

I think the plan is to go beyond what FB does; there's the social network aspect, but you can also easily follow other people and their work on a much less personal level. Particularly cool if you're into open source, or anything that get's posted periodically on the internet by some individual. G+ circles is a great mechanism to separate all this stuff; family / friends / work / writing stuff on the internet, all in one place; and you have full control of who sees what.

 

[Liquorpuki]

I think the plan is to go beyond what FB does; there's the social network aspect, but you can also easily follow other people and their work on a much less personal level. Particularly cool if you're into open source, or anything that get's posted periodically on the internet by some individual. G+ circles is a great mechanism to separate all this stuff; family / friends / work / writing stuff on the internet, all in one place; and you have full control of who sees what.

This is what I like. I stopped using FB because my damn relatives found me. Now I can choose who sees what.

And Hangouts is very cool.

 

[L0s7man]

This is what I like. I stopped using FB because my damn relatives found me. Now I can choose who sees what.

And Hangouts is very cool.

I told my mom that I won't add her on Facebook ;P Neither my aunts and uncles and grandmas, etc ;-) But now it's somewhat different story...

Been using G+ just few days and already I see people posting a lot of cool programming / tech related stuff that's relevant to what I do. I like that and there was none of that on Facebook.

I also like Picasa integration; just switched to Picasa for storing my whole photo collection in the cloud. 80GB space costs you 20USD/year. I just upload everything -- originals and processed stuff; that's my all-in-one backup solution (was using Amazon storage until now, but Picasa is so much cheaper, and for photos, frankly better). It's blazingly fast -- photos switch faster than on my laptop, AND I can share them with people on G+ with exact control of who I want to share them with. AWESOME.

I also hope for Goolge Reader integration so shared items would show up in G+ stream. Pretty much any half-decent RSS reader these days has Google Reader sync; no one would even look at it otherwise ;-) And there is a lot of smart people out there and I want to know what they are reading/sharing.

Facebook can't catch up without changing their model. With G+ you can follow people who aren't your friends or neither your friends' friends or in your network, etc. You add a dude (or gal) to some circle and you'll see their public updates. It might eat somewhat into the Twitter crowd as you can use it for exactly the same purpose (and much more).

 

[r1ch4rd]

Looks promising, but the problem for me at the moment is the lack of users. Once I get some more friends moved over and they start to post content I think there will be a jump from Facebook for a lot of them. Only thing that seems to be missing that I use a lot on Facebook is the ability to create events.

If anyone wants an invite drop me a PM.