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Google+ gets a C- for capacity
INTERNET SEARCH GIANT Google has launched its Google+ social networking web site but it won't permit new users to sign up.
In an attempt the knock Facebook of its social networking perch, Google launched Google+ yesterday. It's available via the Android market or online but don't bother wasting your time trying to sign up because you can't sign up even if you've had an invitation.
We've had an invite at The INQUIRER, not from Google though, but we can't sign up because the Google+ web site says, "Already invited? We've temporarily exceeded our capacity. Please try again soon."
"Right now, we're testing with a small number of people, but it won't be long before the Google+ project is ready for everyone."
In a statement, Google told The INQUIRER, "We are not sharing exact numbers on the size of the trial or who we invited. There will be enough testers involved to provide comprehensive, real-world data about how people use the product."
The web site aims to defeat the goliath of social networking, Facebook, with a combination of different areas. These include '+Circles' for different groups of friends, '+Sparks' for sharing content and '+Hangouts' for, er, hanging out.
Google got badly burned with its previous attempt at social networking with Buzz and had to pay $8.5m to settle a law suit over alleged privacy violations. It's obviously being much more careful with the design and testing of Google+ to avoid having such a mishap again.
That doesn't stop people from getting annoying at being told they're not allowed to sign up, though. We personally feel left out and our feelings are a bit hurt, like the kid at school who gets picked last for the football team. µ
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It is not exactly nobody that can't sign up alreply. I use it since the announcement day, even on cellphone.
It seems that for now they allow entrance of people who has been texted, many of my friends did sign up, oh and I have Googlers that texted me from it. It does have quite some stuff to be solved, with me occurred 2 bugs already, both on the android interface.
For commenting on what I think of it, I like it very much because you are able to select who to share something, but always having to select a sharing group is quite annoying when you quantity to do a public post. How ever I miss the groups as on Facebook and the interaction with other social services, such as buzz and tweeter.
Google it really getting orwellian, a SOCIAL network that nobody is allowed to sign up to? War is Peace, Rejection is Acceptance!
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Nice move on the "football team", that way it works on both sides of the altantic.
do you not think that this is a planned PR move by Google to drum up interest in the new service while not giving many people access to it. do you really think that Google with their billions of dollars and huge data centres cant cope with people signing up to a new website?
I have some invites left, request them here: http://wp.me/p1FykR-6