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Jun292011

Google launches Facebook rival 'Google+'

DateWednesday, June 29, 2011 at 4:31PM

Google have announced their competitor to Facebook called Google+ At first glance it looks a lot like Facebook. At the moment it is in limited testing mode. If you would like an invite or further information or a look at the demo I have included a link to the Google site.

https://plus.google.com/up/start/?sw=1&type=st

Google+

It will be interesting to see if it lures users away from Facebook. I hope that it has much better designed and easy to use privacy setting. At the moment there are close to 700million users on Facebook but I think Facebook has a very clunky user interface and makes setting up your privacy settings difficult.

Google+

What do you think. Would you leave facebook to join Google+? I have also created a Google+ topic on my Tech Forum.

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    Source: Google launches Facebook rival 'Google+'
    by Alexei Oreskovic at Google+ on June 29, 2011
    Google, which has been frustrated by a string of failed attempts to crack the social networking market, has introduced a full-fledged social network dubbed Google+. It is the company's biggest foray into social networking since co-founder Larry Page took over as chief executive in April. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/google-launches-facebook-rival-google-20110629-1gppc.html#ixzz1Qe1LJDTA
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    Source: Introducing the Google+ project: Real-life sharing, rethought for the web
    at Google Blog on June 28, 2011
    Among the most basic of human needs is the need to connect with others. With a smile, a laugh, a whisper or a cheer, we connect with others every single day. Today, the connections between people increasingly happen online. Yet the subtlety and substance of real-world interactions are lost in the rigidness of our online tools. In this basic, human way, online sharing is awkward. Even broken. And we aim to fix it. We’d like to bring the nuance and richness of real-life sharing to software. We
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    Source: What Google+ Learned from Buzz and Wave
    by Gina Tripani at Smarterware on June 29, 2011
    After a half day of using Google+ with the limited number of people I know in the field test so far, I like it a lot. I will love Google+ when and if all my friends show up and stick around. I've been been watching Google flail around social web apps for a few years now, so what I appreciate most about Google+ is that it's a well-thought out product informed by past experience. The more I use Google+, the more I see just how many lessons Google learned from Wave and Buzz, such as:

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