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wordcross · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:35 am Post subject: 1

I've got invites if anyone is interested and doesn't already have one. I've had some issue with invites that go to non-google e-mail addresses, so provide that if you can.

(and really, you'll have to make a google account anyway, so even if you don't have one you might as well make one even if it's just for this Revenge most foul!

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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

Could you send me one at zag.steve@gmail.com. Thanks.

wordcross · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 4:14 am Post subject: 3

done
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Antrax · ESL Student

I thought they already allow people to sign up.
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Jack_Ian · Big Endian

Just tried signing up. They have reached their testing capacity, so no new entrants for now.

Samadhi · +1

Sure, why not. samadhi69 (gmail)
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Sentran · Ray of Sucking Funshine

I could also use an invite, scevxa@yahoo.com. Thanks!
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wordcross · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 5:04 pm Post subject: 8

invites sent to both of you. Sentran, let me know if you get it at your yahoo e-mail address. Also, if they've stopped letting people in for now, it may be a few days but they'll open it up again, just keep trying. It took me a few days when I got my invite.
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Sentran · Ray of Sucking Funshine

In now, thanks Wordcross!
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

mnvanatta [you know that a thing] alaska.edu

It is a google based email address. I am glad I didn't have a gmail account because logging into both at the same time requires a workaround.

wordcross · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:12 pm Post subject: 11

invite sent.

If you use google chrome, then the "incognito" window option is great for opening two of the same kind of account at once. You can be logged into two separate facebook accounts or gmail accounts or, oh, I dunno, two bank accounts...

but yeah, it's occasionally handy Revenge most foul!

(Also, it's 'cuz google is awesome)
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Google+ explained.
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

I guess it doesn't like alaska.edu still. I didn't receive a message or anything...

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

I'd like a look per invite....
hennieschaperATTHINGYgmail.com
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wordcross · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:03 pm Post subject: 15

sent to dp and resent to mattv
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MatthewV · Daedalian Member :_

See the funny thing is that I don't see anything. The plus.google site just says "Google Profiles is not available for your organization". I think the problem is that the University of Alaska is being lame.

Dragon Phoenix · Judge Doom

Thanks! If you run out of invies, I can share mine.
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Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

Zag · Unintentionally offensive old coot

OK. This one was better.

Lepton* · Guest

I think that, five years from now, we're going to look at Plus as the inflection point for Google. In other words, 2011 is the year Google lost its cool.

For the vaguely-tech-savvy, Google has always been an attractive company. They used algorithms to solve the search problem. They blew open the email paradigm. Apps, Docs, and plenty of other tools are free and -- if neither polished nor widely-used -- nonetheless useful. Best of all, perhaps, Google revolutionized advertising and killed (or at least set back) the blinking, bright-colored, noisy, scripted adverts we all hate so much.

All this time, Google's products were free for us to use, often restricted, in "beta" and sometimes a bit buggy, and lax about lock-in. You felt, at least in some way, that you were using some web tools that had been cobbled together by a friend. But that's changed. Google labs is gone, the plethora of semi-functional tools has been trimmed back, and when I log in to Gmail, there's a red link suggesting that I rescue my friends by bringing them into the Google fold.

Worse, though, is Google's efforts to integrate their products, culminating in Plus. Now, from my Gmail inbox -- which I, like many people, leave open through much of the day -- carries an ugly bar across the top with links to other Google services and a number of social networking icons. When someone adds me to Plus, there's a red button that appears at the top of my Gmail screen. There's a field that asks me to "share" things. I don't want these things. I feel like my screen is being intruded upon.

Facebook, of course, has these little intrusions. Facebook is full of little red dots and fields begging me to pour out my heart and connect with old friends, or at least look to see if they are married yet. But that's the difference: although both facebook and Gmail have chat options, built-in email, and now, social media, I have no interest in combining the two sides of my online life, communication and creeping.

For me, the ability to leave Gmail open all day is Google's killer app. The people I chat with on Google are the same as the people I email -- that is, those I have a serious interest in keeping up with -- and I don't mind their interrupting my work. I like being able to respond quickly to email, and to be continuously up-to-date. If social media starts entering my Gmail inbox, that's going to change. If my social networks -- friends, old friends, people I used to know -- start overlapping with my professional networks, I'll be useless. Imagine forwarding all your email to become facebook messages (this is possible, by the way). I wouldn't be able to handle it: email would return to the pre-Microsoft Hotmail era, when it was a duty or an awkward tool, rather than a paradigm.

Conclusion: Google has every right to use their existing suite of products to leverage Plus on us, and it might just stick. But if it does, it will be the beginning of the end for Google. The truth is that, as useful as it is, nobody actually wants social networking.

At least, not in their inboxes.

extro...* · Guest

I do like the circles, now that I just realized I can add one for "people I don't actually know".