Google Plus

[Lucas]

Google finally unveiled its social network project (for now it's invite only):

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/introducing-google-project-real-life.html

https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st&hl=en (at the bottom of the page, you can choose your preferred localized version)

[01101010]

FACEBOOK KILLER! 

on a related note, anyone test driving the Google Music Beta?

[climbjtree]

How are the invites handled? Basically what I'm saying is that I'll take one if anyone has one to give out.

[Bann]

Also looking for an invite.

[Tebonas]

I would love Facebook if Mark Zuckerberg wasn't involved with his hate of privacy, and Google has all my data already anyway. So count me in as highly interested.

[Morfiend]

on a related note, anyone test driving the Google Music Beta?

I am if I am allowed to say I am.

[Teleku]

Uh, I know people who are in the music beta, and they are talking all about it, so I don't think their is an NDA.

[01101010]

Uh, I know people who are in the music beta, and they are talking all about it, so I don't think their is an NDA.

I didn't sign or read any NDA stuff on the agreements page and it has nothing listed on the support or help pages in Music so I suspect they allowing chatting about it - esp from a publicity standpoint.

As for invites, you have to request it at music.google.com - took me 4 days to get an invite after applying.

[MuffinMan]

Is any of this actually going to stick or is it going to turn out like Buzz? It seems a lot of Google products never gain mass appeal and just limp along after a while.

[KallDrexx]

Is any of this actually going to stick or is it going to turn out like Buzz? It seems a lot of Google products never gain mass appeal and just limp along after a while.

Only time can tell, but Google is putting it's whole effort into this and not just a silo'd division.  It's definitely not just a side project.

[K9]

In before brainworms

[Cadaverine]

I got in via a friend that works for Google, but it won't let me send out invites at this time.

[Quinton]

I think they just turned on open invites.  Reload the site and look at the bottom of the right hand column and see if you have "Invite people to join Google+".

[MuffinMan]

This is where I whore for an invite.

[Prospero]

Indeed. Me too please!

[Yoru]

Yeah, this could be pretty cool. I'd love an invite if anyone's got spares. In. 

[Lucas]

Same  (and please Google don't let it die like Wave :P)

[Quinton]

They turned on unlimited invites for all users for a few hours yesterday afternoon/evening.  Sounds like they'll be doing this from time to time during the Field Trial to allow the userbase to grow and increase load on the system.

[luckton]

Can I grab an invite as well?

[Yoru]

Yep, I got in when one of my coworkers from a former job added me. I don't see an obvious way to invite people, although I can add all sorts of folks whom I've emailed to my Circles and supposedly this puts them on some kind of priority invite list. Or something?

[NowhereMan]

If you choose to share something with someone it seems to fire off an invite, certainly it does this with gmail accounts not sure about other hostings.

Friend of mine fired off an invite to an older account I pretty much use for junkmail/internet purchasing, which is kind of annoying since I've now got a profile tied to an account I don't check very regularly or ever really give people anymore. There's also no obvious way to remove or delete an account although I can understand that not being in right now since they're trying to build numbers and I doubt many people signing up in the last 48 hours are looking to delete already.

[K9]

I would love an invite if someone has a spare one. Thanks.

[Morfiend]

I also would like an invite if someone is giving them out.

[Morfiend]

Oh yeah, Google Music fucking rocks. I wish they had a few more sorting methods for your songs, but other than that, its really great.

[JWIV]

Oh yeah, Google Music fucking rocks. I wish they had a few more sorting methods for your songs, but other than that, its really great.

First feature I'd wish for - uploading songs via a playlist or criteria.  I've got a library of 4K+ songs, and really would have liked to limit the upload to things I've rated as 4 stars+

[Rendakor]

I'd like an invite if anyone has one.

[slog]

<----whoring for an invite

[KallDrexx]

One would think we didn't already have a thread dedicated to invite whoring

[Mazakiel]

If they turn on the unlimited invites again and anyone can toss one my way, I'd love to give this a look.  Thanks. 

[Viin]

Me twenty-seven.

[Xuri]

<--- Will post funny pictures of cats for an invite. Or dogs. Or spiders. Or <your favorite species of animal>.

[Lucas]

A couple observations sparkling (can observations "sparkle"? Dunno, but it sounds cool :P) from this article I just finished reading:

http://news.idealo.co.uk/news/10936/google-gets-positive-response-but-will-it-threaten-facebook.html

- It seems to me that if they intend to keep a strict "invite-only" policy for the near future, similar to Wave, they might have unveiled this a little too early, so that Facebook now can try to replicate some of those features, especially the "circles" one (which is already somewhat implemented in FB, anyway, if you create friend categories and show any of your wall posts only to a specific category) ;

- Yes, of course it will be fundamental, but let's keep the implementation factor aside for a moment: so, is FB "headstart" of 700 million users (or whatever) too big to catch up with? Would you consider the general userbase of FB "too lazy" to change? Or they might embrace Google + pronto, especially because of the "new, shiny!" factor? What about the casual games audience currently existing on FB?

[luckton]

Someone that is in the beta, please clicky the following and hook us up 

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20075805-285/how-to-invite-your-pals-to-google/?tag=TOCmoreStories.0

[Morfiend]

Someone that is in the beta, please clicky the following and hook us up 

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20075805-285/how-to-invite-your-pals-to-google/?tag=TOCmoreStories.0

I can confirm that this works. If anyone wants to PM me their email, I can do this when I get home in about an hour.

[Prospero]

I just got, so feel free to PM email addresses and I'll try to add you.