Google+ Catch-All

Maq, you are both a gentleman and a scholar.

The "Join Google+" button is taking me to the Tour and the "keep me posted" button right now, but I'll keep checking it.

still no invite.. I'm unloved.

thegameguru at gmail dot com

TheGameguru wrote:

still no invite.. I'm unloved.

Should be covered now.

Posted this to the other thread before knowing this one existed, so thought I'd repost here:

So far my impression of Google+ is really good. It seems to have the things I like about Facebook, without the things I don't. (XKCD nailed it.)

There are lots of little things I really like about it:

* the ease of control over who sees what, and how much, especially in the profile; it's not deliberately obfuscated, like Facebook, it's right out in the open
* (correlary) Circles are a great way of solving an issue I have with Twitter: when I talk about hockey a lot, the people who follow me for geeky things are annoyed, and vice-versa. Now I can broadcast the right things to the right groups of people. If you could tag a post with a topic, that would be even better though, otherwise I'm /assuming/ that person A doesn't want hockey stuff, and person B doesn't care about open source software.
* resharing something someone else posted is easy, and works nicely, although I wish if I reshared something I saw from someone's feed, it would not show their version of it unless someone comments on it or something
* I like the "incoming" field for deciding how to add people, as people find their way onto Google+. I generally used my gmail.com account for signing up for open-source mailing lists and such, so I have a *ton* of people in my GMail contacts list that are just some random person I responded to on a mailing list. Now that I have enough folks in my contact list that I've reached a semi-critical mass, I don't have to search out who I care about in that list, I can just see which of them find me. My contacts should essentially grow to "those I care about following" organically, without having to do a bunch of hand-management of groups.

The one thing I wish it would do is let me take posts from Twitter and auto-post them to my Google+ stream, so I don't have to share things twice for those two audiences. That's really just a transitional thing, and I expect once API access opens up, it will happen (either through a Twitter integration, or by adding Google+ support to Twitter clients like TweetDeck).

In all, +1. It's Facebook done right.

Tagged, from the other thread.

Can I get an invite? Sorry for showing up late to this party.

cjansen at sbcglobal dot net

I'm getting reports from a few friends that when they try to click on the "Learn more about Google+" link they're getting a "Sorry, we're full at the moment!" message. Anybody confirm this?

Tanglebones wrote:

I'm in - Tanglebones should be up as an "other name"

Yeah, other names seems to be the place for this type of name. The Nickname field only has one option. I should have taer as my other name.

Are invites working again? I thought Google stopped them because the response was overwhelming ... ?

Anyway, garion333 at gmail .... you know the rest.

Benticore wrote:

I'm getting reports from a few friends that when they try to click on the "Learn more about Google+" link they're getting a "Sorry, we're full at the moment!" message. Anybody confirm this?

Yeah, I'm trying to join up my wife and I'm getting the same message.

Rallick wrote:
Benticore wrote:

I'm getting reports from a few friends that when they try to click on the "Learn more about Google+" link they're getting a "Sorry, we're full at the moment!" message. Anybody confirm this?

Yeah, I'm trying to join up my wife and I'm getting the same message.

Well crap, but it's to be expected really. I'm just glad to have managed to add those that I could.

More proof of how awesome Goodjers are: I got TWO invites not an hour after asking for an invite. Thanks guys!

Also: all hail the hypnopuppy!

I too would like an invite to your illustrious GoogleMen's Club. phair.kevin at the googlez

I thought I'd cross-post this from the other + thread:

For those who have received invites and can't activate it:

me wrote:

I wish I could provide more details on timing, but I can't. I would recommend trying your invite 2x a day - morning and late afternoon.

My understanding (full disclosure I am not on the Google+ team) is that we're rolling out spaces throughout the day, but as you can imagine, there is insane demand. To optimize the experience (for those who are active) we are phasing in more people at a sustainable rate. Less than ideal for eager people waiting, I know, but this way we don't bork the system which would result from instant geometric growth.

Hedge beat me to the cross post... we might want to stop posting in one or the other of these two threads.

MonoCheli wrote:

we might want to stop posting in one or the other of these two threads.

Agreed. Since this thread was created first, perhaps ask Certis to move it to Everything Else (where more people are likely to see it) and lock the other thread.

+1

Benticore wrote:

I'm getting reports from a few friends that when they try to click on the "Learn more about Google+" link they're getting a "Sorry, we're full at the moment!" message. Anybody confirm this?

Same here. I tried to get a few of my friends in, ACCESS DENIED.

I am also filled with wanting an invite.
Email is mikeasands at gmail dot com.

MikeSands wrote:

I am also filled with wanting an invite.
Email is mikeasands at gmail dot com.

sent an email

I know I've been sent invites, but no mail yet.

Ranger Rick wrote:
MikeSands wrote:

I am also filled with wanting an invite.
Email is mikeasands at gmail dot com.

sent an email

Thanks!

drmarlin at gmail dot com for any kind, giving person.

I would gladly and humbly accept an invite:
bordone at gmail dot com

I got the invite, so thank you very much, whoever invited me. But Google refuses to let me use the service unless I associate a phone number with the account, and I'm not presently willing to do that.

Android app is updated to show more than one account during initial setup. :p

Why not use a Voice or Skype number, Malor?

Sephirotic a gmail, please! I love you all!

Done, done, done, and done for the last four requests.

Thanks for the invites! I'm getting the over-capacity message now as well, but should be able to get in eventually.

If anyone else has one...

the name is "kevin dot p dot grubb at gmail dot com"