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• j_crazy

  

  Anyone on it yet? It looks pretty sweet.
  
  Story
  
  Another question. How does google determine who gets "invited" to these demos and what not? I'd love to get in on this one.
• Curly J

  

  Google better watch out. They are using the term Huddle. Looks like they might be getting a Certified Letter.
• dlazz

  Too little, too late for Google on this one.
  
  Buzz failed for a reason, this will fail too.
• O-Trap

  

  dlazz;816572 wrote:Too little, too late for Google on this one.
  
  Buzz failed for a reason, this will fail too.

  
  Different arena. Also, Buzz is the exception, in that Google rarely fails at something it invests much advertising into.
• dlazz

  O-Trap;816601 wrote:Different arena.

  
  No, not really. Both are social networking, to an extent. This is a move to take away market share from Facebook and it simply won't happen.
• Trueblue23

  

  I just downloaded it for my Droid.. not too sure what to expect. It'll probably suck, which is rare with Google.
• Pick6

  

  i think it looks pretty cool..but who knows if people will join
• O-Trap

  

  dlazz;816649 wrote:No, not really. Both are social networking, to an extent. This is a move to take away market share from Facebook and it simply won't happen.

  
  Buzz is to Google+ what AIM is to Facebook.
  
  VERY different.
  
  And given the fact that Google is the single most dominant presence on the Internet, I sincerely doubt they're without the ability to compete.
  
  Honestly, their biggest failure with Buzz was trying to incorporate it into the Gmail interface at the start. Should have made it a standalone from the get-go.
• mucalum49

  

  Anyone ever use Google Wave still? I had a demo to that but stopped using it after a day or two.
• gorocks99

  

  mucalum49;816808 wrote:Anyone ever use Google Wave still? I had a demo to that but stopped using it after a day or two.

  
  I think Google discontinued Wave because no one could figure out what it was useful for.
• mucalum49

  

  gorocks99;816818 wrote:I think Google discontinued Wave because no one could figure out what it was useful for.

  Haha very true!
• namod65

  

  I don't see it. Facebook is such a big success because everyone who does the social network thing uses it. If you want to network with someone, look someone up, see who they know, etc..., you go to Facebook, because that's where EVERYONE is. It's essentially a giant database with information on anyone who uses the internet frequently. If Google+ comes in and some people switch over, then it's divided, losing the attractiveness of being able to network with anyone. Why would I go to Google+ when I know the success of networking with anyone I want is less likely because not everyone is on there. I would stay with Facebook because I'm almost guaranteed to be able to network with whoever I want because that's where they all are. I feel that there is only room for one social network site at a time. Myspace had it's time, but was flawed, and Facebook knocked it off. I don't see Google+ taking a significant amount of members away from Facebook. Google rules the search engine arena, and no one will ever challenge them. You want to search something, you go there without question. It's pretty much the same with Facebook. You want to socially network with someone, Facebook is the place to go and that's not changing. There's two sites that most people visit multiple times EVERY day. That's a search engine like Google, and Facebook. I don't think there's any chance that Google could claim both those positions.
• O-Trap

  

  namod65;816917 wrote:I don't see it. Facebook is such a big success because everyone who does the social network thing uses it. If you want to network with someone, look someone up, see who they know, etc..., you go to Facebook, because that's where EVERYONE is. It's essentially a giant database with information on anyone who uses the internet frequently. If Google+ comes in and some people switch over, then it's divided, losing the attractiveness of being able to network with anyone. Why would I go to Google+ when I know the success of networking with anyone I want is less likely because not everyone is on there. I would stay with Facebook because I'm almost guaranteed to be able to network with whoever I want because that's where they all are. I feel that there is only room for one social network site at a time. Myspace had it's time, but was flawed, and Facebook knocked it off. I don't see Google+ taking a significant amount of members away from Facebook. Google rules the search engine arena, and no one will ever challenge them. You want to search something, you go there without question. It's pretty much the same with Facebook. You want to socially network with someone, Facebook is the place to go and that's not changing. There's two sites that most people visit multiple times EVERY day. That's a search engine like Google, and Facebook. I don't think there's any chance that Google could claim both those positions.

  
  Established presences are always up for change if the challenger can (a) improve on the model, and (b) market successfully.
  
  'B' is a given, as Google can market like no other Internet entity. It's all on whether they can improve on the model.
  
  Google is a testament, in fact, of this process. It used to be a series of small search engines. Yahoo, Ask, MSN, and a few others (Dogpile, anyone?) had their cuts. Google came in as the small fish in a big pond, but they began offering advantages, ranging from a more effective search matrix to effective marketing platforms to exclusive email.
  
  Same happened to AIM. People still use AIM, but not NEARLY like they use Skype. Why? Because Skype is everything AIM was, and then some. It has adapted to the Web 2.0 feel. It has prominently incorporated streamlined voice and video calling. It has added the capability to call non-Skype phones. From a usability standpoint, it blew AIM out of the water. As such, people moved over. It took some time, but it happened.
  
  Now, I'm not saying this is a lock for Google. They've failed before. However, nobody has the potential to succeed on every project like they do, so if ANYONE can rival Facebook (not just the smaller niche social media sites like LinkedIn), it's SkyNe - er - Google.
• I Wear Pants

  I am skeptical of Google's success in this. FB is to social networking anymore what Google is to search. Others (Bing) can come in and be successful but I doubt they're going to really steal much thunder.
  
  The problem with this is, how do I convince all my friends to get it? That will be very hard because without that the service is pretty useless. And they've had a pretty bad record recently as far as collaborative/social things go. (Google Buzz/Wave anyone?).
  
  I think they bring some neat things to the table but I really doubt there chances of ever becoming Facebook like in the sector.
• sleeper

  

  I think it can be successful as it has some cool ideas, but when it comes to social networking its really hard to beat Facebook and Twitter.
• I Wear Pants

  I think they may have been better off somehow using the new ideas that they have, which some of them are neat, and integrating them with Facebook and Twitter via the APIs they have. I think that would have given them more success.
• j_crazy

  

  it won't take over the market from facebook and twitter, but it should give them some ideas to improve. That's a good thing because facebook is getting stale.
• O-Trap

  

  I Wear Pants;816999 wrote:I think they may have been better off somehow using the new ideas that they have, which some of them are neat, and integrating them with Facebook and Twitter via the APIs they have. I think that would have given them more success.

  
  This might not be a bad call. Good thought!
  
  There is a little marketer in all of us, apparently.
  

  j_crazy;817108 wrote:it won't take over the market from facebook and twitter, but it should give them some ideas to improve. That's a good thing because facebook is getting stale.

  
  I agree, which is why I said the potential exists for Google to do it. The conditions are similar to when they overtook Yahoo as the primary search engine.
• Devils Advocate

  

  O-Trap;817792 wrote:
  There is a little marketer in all of us, apparently.
  
  
  

  
• I Wear Pants

  O-Trap;817792 wrote:This might not be a bad call. Good thought!
  
  There is a little marketer in all of us, apparently.
  

  
  Gross.
  
  But fo' realz, I would hope so seeing as it's my major.
• Nate

  From what I saw in the demo, I like it.
• O-Trap

  

  I Wear Pants;817862 wrote:Gross.
  
  But fo' realz, I would hope so seeing as it's my major.

  
  Well I guess that's good, then.
  
  In hindsight, I wish I would have at least taken that as a minor, if not double majored in it. I'd love to have a background of it, since all I've done since college has been sales and marketing.
• I Wear Pants

  
• dlazz

  I got an account tonight. It's quite simple. If someone wants to try it, shoot me a PM with their email addy.
• hasbeen

  

  dlazz;818275 wrote:I got an account tonight. It's quite simple. If someone wants to try it, shoot me a PM with their email addy.

  
  Pm should have been sent. First attempt doing it via tapatalk.