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Title: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 08:26:33 PM
Does anyone here have Google+?  If so, do you have any invites to spare?
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: idolminds on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 09:56:45 PM
I can invite anyone, just need email addresses.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: PyroMenace on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 10:02:20 PM
Yea me too if anyone else wants one.
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Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 10:18:18 PM
Yep, just sent one to you, Scott.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: W7RE on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, 10:47:11 PM
I can invite as well. I have some of you in my circles already. There's probably more of you on there, but I can't remember everyone's real names.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 06:06:19 AM
Yep, just sent one to you, Scott.
How do I retrieve it?  I'm not seeing anything in my Gmail account.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: Xessive on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 06:57:49 AM
How do I retrieve it?  I'm not seeing anything in my Gmail account.
That's odd, it didn't keep you in my Circle.. Sent out another one, check it now :)
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 07:23:54 AM
Schweet.  Thanks!

At first glance it looks like a really simplified Facebook.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 06:26:55 PM
Weird, so you can go to other people's profiles but you really can't do anything there except look at their stuff.  You can't send them a private or public message like on Facebook it seems.  Odd.

And I see a category "Buzz" on other people's profiles but not on mine.  I've heard of Buzz and I'm familiar with the logo, but I don't know how to use it.  I found something about Buzz from my Gmail and went in there and all that was there was just a few places I've checked in via Google Places on my mobile.

What's up with Google and all of their half-baked stuff?
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: W7RE on Wednesday, July 13, 2011, 08:13:43 PM
Weird, so you can go to other people's profiles but you really can't do anything there except look at their stuff.  You can't send them a private or public message like on Facebook it seems.  Odd.

And I see a category "Buzz" on other people's profiles but not on mine.  I've heard of Buzz and I'm familiar with the logo, but I don't know how to use it.  I found something about Buzz from my Gmail and went in there and all that was there was just a few places I've checked in via Google Places on my mobile.

What's up with Google and all of their half-baked stuff?

Not sure about Buzz.

If you post a message on your "wall" (or whatever Google is calling it), you can use the dropdown to dictate which circles it's shared to. If you type +JohnSmith it will only share to John Smith. That's sort of like posting to someone's wall on Facebook. It doesn't show up on their wall though, it shows up in your stream. That means they have to be viewing a stream that includes you (since it's possible to view only one circle's stream at a time).


EDIT: I just messed with it a bit. I started a post on my stream/wall/whatever with +FriendName and it popped up and thing that let me click his name. Then I wrote a message. It sent him an alert for it, and he came and replied. If you view your own profile (not your home location, but view your profile), in the upper right you can tell it to let you view it as a specific circle, a specific person, or as an anonymous user. This will show you who can see what on your stream. Only the friend that I designated in the post can see it. So if you want to have a private conversation through PMs, that appears to be the way to do it.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: shock on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 09:41:47 AM
I don't think I have any of your emails.

https://plus.google.com/100124776866052134874/

I think that links to my page.  Add me!
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: beo on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 10:22:52 AM
i'll take an invite if there are any going spare! slothman(at)gmail*dot*com
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 10:49:41 AM
Sent.
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Post by: beo on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 11:46:41 AM
cheers!

if anyone sees simon beckett adding them (if that's how it works?) that is me.
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Post by: Cools! on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 06:31:40 PM
I'm on it as well (thanks to K-man): link (https://plus.google.com/100297390082105150113/posts)

Got invites as well if anyone still needs it.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: W7RE on Thursday, July 14, 2011, 06:49:04 PM
This should be a link to my page. (https://plus.google.com/117180247159700702937/posts)
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: angrykeebler on Friday, July 15, 2011, 12:24:39 AM
someone toss me one!

angrykeebler@gmail.com
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Post by: PyroMenace on Friday, July 15, 2011, 02:44:04 AM
Sent you one Keebs.
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Post by: angrykeebler on Friday, July 15, 2011, 05:03:47 AM
thanks broski's
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Friday, July 15, 2011, 06:49:16 PM
G+ still has a lot of bugs.  I usually leave it open.  Every once in awhile, I look at it and posts will be missing.  I will refresh the page, click Streams, or click the Google+ logo and *poof*!  They're back.  Today I checked in at a place for the first time using the mobile app.  On the full-fledged website, this shows if I look at my profile, but it doesn't show on Streams.  Which would be fine except other posts I make show up on Streams, so the behavior is inconsistent.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: ren on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 06:52:56 AM
I really like the circles concept but I can't see myself ever using this for anything. Perhaps I don't have enough friends on it yet but my stream is completely barren as the friends I have so far also don't seem to use it for anything.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: scottws on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 07:36:31 AM
Same here on both points.  I like how the circles give you complete control over who sees what without making it overly complicated, but so far it's pretty empty.  I've been posting stuff on Google+ and Facebook at the same time just to keep it lively.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: shock on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 07:38:02 AM
It seems better than facebook on a lot of counts.  It's still a social networking site where I feel compelled to post funny/witty/insightful things, but I am basically too lazy to post much of anything.  So I probably won't use it all too much.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: idolminds on Saturday, July 16, 2011, 09:26:18 AM
I'd post on there but for some strange reason when I click the box where you type in the update it says "Opening..." and then nothing happens.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 05:35:54 PM
Who got left-over invites?

Send an invite to:
themysterd@gmail.com
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: W7RE on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 07:37:46 PM
Who got left-over invites?

Send an invite to:
themysterd@gmail.com



sent
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: MysterD on Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 09:04:10 PM

sent

TY! :)
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: Xessive on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 04:09:10 AM
Who's Heather Justin?

Google+ keeps recommending adding her, when I check people in common it's all you guys! hehe Whose woman is she?!

P.S. I do not mean to imply that a woman is a possession of a man, even if it is a well-reputed gentleman of our circle.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: idolminds on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 08:24:25 AM
Heather is Ques girlfriend.
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Post by: Pugnate on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 08:37:45 AM
Wait... who the fuck is AngryKeebler then?
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: ren on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 09:26:25 AM
That would be the girlfriend of Jack's lukewarm rage. Aka jacksrag. Aka hoob.
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: Xessive on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 09:31:25 AM
Heather is Ques girlfriend.
Ah, domo aregato!

Que, say Hi to Heather for me! :)
Title: Re: Google+ invites?
Post by: Quemaqua on Thursday, July 21, 2011, 09:41:22 AM
Haha, will do.