Google+

[andrewducker]

If anyone has a spare invite I'd be delighted, by the way :->

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[onceupon]

Me toooooooooooo. From what I've heard, they're full up for a little while, unfortunately.

[birguslatro]

Have you heard what the exchange rate is between Google+ invites and Dreamwidth invites?

[andrewducker]

17:1?

[birguslatro]

Hmmm. Andrew has 17 Dreamwidth invites left. Not pulling his weight!

[andrewducker]

Last few times I advertised them I got no takers.

[birguslatro]

Those who know what DW is and want a journal here will already have one.

Technically, it's pretty good. But the front page needs a major makeover, it not really suggesting what you're getting. "Share your writing, your artwork, or your innermost thoughts" kinda fails when you can't even store your artwork here. (Yet.) And they don't call it a social network on the front page, or describe what the reading page is, which is surely the core to it.

All of which I'm sure will come in due time, but it's sure taking a while...

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

"I would like to try a social network without many people on it, please!"

sounds silly when you put it like that :-D

[andrewducker]

Well, they all start with no people in them. And I'd like to both claim my user name while I can, and take a look at it for myself.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

yeah, you don't want that trainspotter andrew ducker taking the name and people thinking he's you

[andrewducker]

Seem to be a couple more of them nowadays too!

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Are you sure it's not just accounts you forgot you opened?

Google+ sounds like facebook but with slightly cutesy names for things.

On the other hand, if something that isn't facebook becomes popular, that'd be pretty neat. Facebook's "oh, that was private? Yeah, our bad. we uh totally meant to tell everyone it was becoming public *snigger*" is rather annoying me.

[andrewducker]

Or to put it another way:
http://xkcd.com/918/

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

This is basically how they market new MMOs, against WoW.

If Google bought Flickr and had the option to pretty seamlessly integrate it into Google+ I'd suddenly be a lot more excited. I like Flickr. Regrettably, Google have Picasa already.

Pity that Facebook is the place with All The Photos and the absolute worse functionality.

[andrewducker]

Shame Yahoo already own Flickr. I suspect they don't want to sell it.

I do like the idea that things I +1 will affect my search results and recommendations.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

Is +1 a private thing, or a public thing?

If it's private, I'd be tempted to use it.

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

I don't like any personalization of search results. It's bad in all kinds of way, never mind that Google's revenue comes mainly from advertising.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'll get one somewhere. Let us know what you think of it?

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

Think there's one on it's way.