Google+ Enters Open Beta

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Posted by Unknown on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @05:55AM from the google-hangouts-replace-real-hangouts dept.

First time accepted submitter morgosmaci sends us a Google Blog post about the transitioning of Google+ from a closed "field trial" to an open beta. As part of the update, Google threw in a number of enhancements to the Hangouts feature: an Android client, named hangouts, integration with Google Docs, and a preliminary web service API. And you can finally search for users, posts, and other content.

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For the impatient... by damn_registrars · 2011-09-20 05:59 · Score: 4, Informative

go to google.com/+ and you can sign up through there.

Or you can read the article and eventually find the link.

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Still no Apps for Domains by Imagix · 2011-09-20 06:00 · Score: 5, Informative

And yet you _still_ cannot join Google+ if you have a paid-for Google Apps for Domains account.
1. Re:Still no Apps for Domains by grasshoppa · 2011-09-20 06:23 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  You know, it's annoying that it's not available but my main issue is the lack of communication from Google on this issue. What timeline do we have for this being implemented? "Soon", for the past 6 months we've heard that. What does "soon" mean? Tomorrow? That's soon. Or is it "Google Beta" level soon, where it could be YEARS before they get around to fixing it.
  As an administrator of a number of paid for Apps domains, I find their behavior on this issue to lack any kind of competence or professionalism. I am regretting my decision to recommend google web base email and am actively exploring alternatives because of their behavior.
  
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Re:open? by trunicated · 2011-09-20 06:28 · Score: 5, Informative

I think you're starting to get into the "Free as in freedom or free as in beer" territory. This is open as in "available to everyone", not open as in "open source".

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Re:Google+ is a success by tycoex · 2011-09-20 06:49 · Score: 3, Informative

This is untrue. Yes the default (you can uncheck it) is to upload all your photos to Google+, but they are not shown on your profile until you specifically go onto G+ and show them. Until you do this they are just hosted online for you to view privately.
Re:Google+ is a success by znrt · 2011-09-20 07:13 · Score: 3, Informative

Well, you better hope Google doesn't ban you for not using real time or if they even think you're not using your real name - Google+ ban isn't only to Google+, it's to all the other Google services like Gmail and YouTube too.
not true. i'm banned from g+ because of name policy violation and can access gmail and youtube. ban only affects socalled social services like g+, picasa and buzz. besides, I can still access g+ in readonly mode.
the naming policy is completely off. they really can't pretend to know better than me how I want to be named. I find it outright idiotic, so there goes g+ ... good sw, though. a shame.
Re:Google+ is a success by Riceballsan · 2011-09-20 07:38 · Score: 4, Informative

Not true, in both categories. Google+ by default lists the main parts of your profile, that is true, but as soon as you upload any content, comments, posts, pictures etc... the first thing it does is ask you who you want to be able to see it with the default being your circles (people you have added). Facebook 6 months ago, if you created an account, and uploaded 3 photos and made a status post without changing any options, all of that would have been public. Games take a list of people on your friends list, which makes sense, a social game should list your friends for the sake of knowing who's high scores to show you. Now if say I added a jerk to my friends who idiotically plays a ton of games and accepts every darn "tell your friends about the retarted cow you stepped on" update. Those go to the games feed. If I don't play games, I never click the games feed and thus I never even see the spam. It never mixes in with the posts and things my friends are sharing, etc... Facebook 6 months ago, if you had 2 friends who clicked every stupid share with friends in their games, your feed got so frickin crowded you couldn't find any of the non game-based posts until you started blocking the games, and then you have to block each and every game to keep up with them. Bottom line G+ isn't perfect, but it is leaps and bounds foward from facebooks defaults.