[Unknown Target]

I'll pass, personally. I'm not a huge fan of Facebook as-is and I don't need another service. Besides, Google already has access to all my emails and search habits, I don't really think they need everything else too.

I'll sit out the rush on this one.

[Bob-san]

Not exactly the smartest move to post email addresses as-is in public forums. I can only assume you've been already been datamined and added to even more spamlists than you were already.

As for Google+, it's in limited early public beta test where you apparently need to have public profiles or your profile will get deleted. Not really interested at this time. Let's see again when it's actually ready for use. I hardly ever use Facebook, so I dunno what G+ has to offer. And why is it called Google+, the name doesn't roll off the tongue that well.

Public profiles are no problem at the moment; nothing important is on G+. Right now it's just building a userbase. I really hope that the rivalry kills social networking. But it's unlikely.

[Unknown Target]

Why would you want to kill social networking? This forum could be considered "social networking".
I think what you want is to kill the corporitazation and subsequent profitization of all of our personal lives, hopes, and relationships, so that what is essentially a zombie society can continue to lurch forwards, unthinking and unfeeling of the destruction it wrecks upon people's lives.

[Luis Dias]

I've heard that google's idea about G+ is that google employees really hate facebook corporate bull****, and wanted to make an open sourced social net. So they are first building it up in closed proprietary form to open up later.

Dunno if tru.

[Kolgena]

Got a G+ account, but haven't really done much with it. It'll take some time before it reaches the utility that facebook currently offers, so I'll wait.

[Snail]

anyone who sends me an invite will be strangled

[Luis Dias]

Quick Goober send me an invite so I can give it to Snail.

[Unknown Target]

I've heard that google's idea about G+ is that google employees really hate facebook corporate bull****, and wanted to make an open sourced social net. So they are first building it up in closed proprietary form to open up later.

Dunno if tru.

I might be interested if that's true.

[Luis Dias]

Yeah me too... but I'll wait till the open source side of things arrive to the equation. G is still a corporation... and one that sells eyeballs...

[Ghostavo]

You know, this service might seem like a good idea until one is reminded that Google is the only company in the world with a worse history regarding personal data than Facebook.

[Mars]

Source?

[Bob-san]

You know, this service might seem like a good idea until one is reminded that Google is the only company in the world with a worse history regarding personal data than Facebook.

Retaining, using, or losing? Because Google retains pretty much everything, doesn't use anything quickly identifying, and has lost very little. Facebook, on the other hand, retains pretty much everything, uses pretty much everything, and lets the Applications platform get a copy of all the data too.

[Mars]

I'm pretty sure there are banks with worse track records than both Google and Facebook, and considering how much information Google has available to it, I believe it has a statistically pretty awesome track record.

[JGZinv]

I'd be interested to take a look at what the fuss is about, although I use FB more as a IM panel to people that can't be bothered
to use actual IM protocols...

Email ain't hard to figure out, it's my forum name @gmail.com.
Appreciate it...

I guess the real question is how long before a major hack attack on G+ happens, it would make for a lovely target.

[Mars]

They did pretty well with China hacking their GMail accounts.

[Snail]

Google Buzz tasted like shampoo, this can only taste worse.

[Luis Dias]

https://plus.google.com/117388252776312694644/posts/bGJPTALDkDe

Google+ To Pass 10,000,000 Users Tomorrow (on 7/12)

As I promised on Saturday night, I have finished updating my Google+ membership model with new data and re-estimated the Google+ user base.

My surname-based analysis shows that the number of Google+ users worldwide reached 7.3 million yesterday (July 10) – up from 1.7 million users on July 4th. That is a 350% increase in six days. The userbase is growing so quickly that it is challenging for me to keep up, since the number of users of any given surname (even the rare ones I am tracking) seems to be climbing every day.

More impressive than last week's growth is the astonishing growth in users from yesterday at mid-day to tonight -- a 30% jump. My latest estimate tonight shows approximately 9.5 million users. This suggests that 2.2 million people have joined Google+ in the past 32-34 hours.

I project that Google will easily pass 10 million users tomorrow and could reach 20 million user by this coming weekend if they keep the Invite Button available. As one G+ user put it, it is easy to underestimate the power of exponential growth.

[Snail]

****.

[jr2]

I'd love an invite: [email protected]

It looks like the doors are temporarily closed, but I assume that they'll let more people in over time.

You likee spam??  Posting e-mail in plain text on forum = spamstorm, at least in my experience.

Err...  ninja'd

Not exactly the smartest move to post email addresses as-is in public forums. I can only assume you've been already been datamined and added to even more spamlists than you were already.

As for Google+, it's in limited early public beta test where you apparently need to have public profiles or your profile will get deleted. Not really interested at this time. Let's see again when it's actually ready for use. I hardly ever use Facebook, so I dunno what G+ has to offer. And why is it called Google+, the name doesn't roll off the tongue that well.

[KyadCK]

I'd be interested to take a look at what the fuss is about...

mail sent, have fun