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Google To Rebrand Blogger & Picasa For Google+ Integration
dkd903 writes "Google plans to rebrand its photo-sharing platform Picasa and the blogging platform Blogger and will re-introduce them as Google Photos and Google Blogs. All this forms part of a massive feature addition to Google's new social network, Google+."
You need a friend who already has it to invite you. They are not doing "official" invites right now, but you can still get an invite by having someone add you to a circle and then send you a notification of some content being posted. That's how I got in, a stranger from 4chan added my e-mail address and I got a link in the e-mail to sign up.
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That's it. I'm completely fed up with hearing about this stupid new whizz-bang service, dammit! Please stop posting and blogging and writing articles about this crap.
until you send me an invite
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I suspect they are being exclusive so they don't blow up their servers before they are sure they can handle the load.
I can't believe that people are complaining that they can't join the beta of a social networking site that just launched less than a week ago. Come back to complain when it's been 4 months. They were planning on letting more people in right now, but then someone found a bug that allowed someone to send infinite invites and they got overwhelmed. Give it a little bit and I'm sure it will open up again.
Yes, my friend got one of those invites from someone already "in", but Google told her that it was full when she tried to claim the invite and set up an account.
As a member of G+ - I can understand why they shut off new subscribers.
Their threading logic was cumbersome and needed work. The "rings" concept is cool - but when you have threads that "fork" - as in one conversation becomes closed to one ring - and another conversation to a different ring - the UI representation was horrible. If the people I interact with weren't limited - I would have turned away from G+ pretty quickly.
I'm get the feeling invites will open up again, soon. The UI has undergone some minor tweaks, the mobile app got updated, HangOuts is working better now.
Some of the stuff that's not quite perfected (IMHO) are the "nearby posts" and "incoming posts".
/me sips his coffee and ponders a new sig...
You think they're running on a Pentium III server in Sergey's garage? It's Google we are talking about, not Twitter :p
They already index the whole world, read everyone's e-mail, and watch you from roving surveillance vans. Connecting you with your friends and letting you share pics shouldn't tax them too much.
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Blogger and Picasa are good names: concise, searchable, and trademarkable.
But I guess that Google's marketing department wants headlines to reverberate their name in the tech and business media.
I will adjust, but I still think that the decision sucks.
With Google+ you can actually save all of your photos to your hard disk. It downloads them as a zip. :)
They should use something more evolutionary and more suitable for giant company, like: Google Plus Picasa Photo Service
Does this mean that Google will be trying to leverage Picassa and Blogger to coerce people into joining their Network in order to use them? That's what I read in the word 'rebranding' and it doesn't sound good.
They already index the whole world, read everyone's e-mail, and watch you from roving surveillance vans. Connecting you with your friends and letting you share pics shouldn't tax them too much.
"Welcome to Google+. Would you like to connect your account with your friends and family?
Just kidding. We already know who your friends and family are. By the way, here is a satellite photo of your daughter, whom you forgot at soccer practice."
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I hope they don't roll up picasa and blogger until *after* they've fixed Google+ integration with GoogleApps hosted domains.
Google have acknowledged that Google+ can't be used with email addresses hosted in GoogleApp domains but there is no word on when or if this will be fixed. Moving other products into Google+ will just reduce the number of google services that I can access, and I'm a paying google customer!
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I have a sneaking suspicion that under the covers at least some of the tech is wave-derived. Well, the video hangout at least is almost certainly some form of XMPP MUC with Jingle
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