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Very cool-looking, especially the cover photo for events. Should companies/bands/artists and the like start taking G+ seriously, this will be a big selling poin
by jgroome 14y ago
Very cool-looking, especially the cover photo for events. Should companies/bands/artists and the like start taking G+ seriously, this will be a big selling point (they love little branding opportunities like that).
Calendar integration: Just makes sense. Not really a feature so much as an obvious subfeature.
"Party Mode" looks promising. I'd say the only thing I don't like about Facebook's events is the lack of a group photo album for events, so Google have done well in integrating this.
But, again, until the people I know are actually on Plus, G+ events are just going to be something else just for the geeks.
- tzury 14y agountil the people I know are actually on Plus, G+ events are just going to be something else just for the geeks That should not a problem, as most of the people you know, have a Google account, and implicitly are subscribers of Google+
- augustl 14y agoThat's interesting. I like Google+, but none of my friends use it. Inviting them to events would be one way of getting them started. Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone.
- judofyr 14y ago> Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone. You can do this now. Just type in an email address in the field where you add people/circles. The user who receives the invite can set his availability-status without having a + account. Anything else (posting, commenting, adding photos etc.) requires an account though.
- icebraining 14y agoAnything else (posting, commenting, adding photos etc.) requires an account though. For now. Google's patent on "ghost profiles"[1] is probably intended to fix that. [1]: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_FULAgAAEBAJ&dq=social+network&ie=ISO-8859-1 http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_FULAgAAEBAJ&dq=s...
- augustl 14y agoThat's great! I'm trying this now. Hopefully Google isn't too clever here, though... I know that of the people I e-mailed use Google Apps, so perhaps Google detects that it's an Google Apps address and enforces Google+ account creation.
- jgroome 14y agoSure. On paper, as a Google account holder, I'm a G+ user. But I'm not.
- freshfunk 14y agoI haven't used it but I'm guessing that the invites will be tightly integrated with email. The user experience will probably be something like invite users by email. Ones that have gmail/G+ can click through to further integration. Others will simply see an invite page (a la evite).
- tubbo 14y agoIt's only not a problem if they get alerted via email when people invite them to events. Unlike Facebook, people don't check their G+ every day, so it's more likely that they won't see that event being posted without explicitly being invited by email. And if that's the way G+ events are being promoted, I might as well just set up an email list.
- abrahamsen 14y agoThere are opt-out email alerts, and you can also invite people without G+ profiles to the event. The advantages over an email list can be convenience for the sender, the look of the invitation, and additional features for those who have G+ profiles.
- simondlr 14y agoI can easily see Facebook implementing "party mode" for their events, especially with their new Camera app. If you take a photo, it checks if you are supposed to be at an event, and asks if you should post it there. No-brainer.
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoJust to reiterate, you can invite people using email addresses. They don't have to use G+, or even have a Google account, I believe.
- moah 14y agoI tested that with a yahoo address yesterday. And the yahoo address never showed up on G+ event page as Not Responded even though there was no error when I entered it. And I checked the yahoo mailbox and there was no invite email.
- Matt_Cutts 14y agoWild. I'll see if I can test that out myself. It's possible that Yahoo was marking the email invites as spam, which would be a separate issue.