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Some fascinating insights. I know you and your team are busy, but it'd be great to read more of your learnings. Do you have a company blog or anything where you document stuff like this?
Joel wrote about this a few years ago (2000, before the creation of StackOverflow):

If you're going into a market with no existing
competition, lock-in, and network effects, you better
use the Amazon model, or you're going the way of
Wordsworth.com, which started two years before Amazon,
and nobody's ever heard of them. Or even worse, you're
going to be a ghost site like MSN Auctions with
virtually no chance of ever overcoming ebay.

Extracted from: "Strategy Letter I: Ben and Jerry's vs. Amazon": http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html
I'm surprised that so many people don't take their testing claims at face-value. They've done it before. Many other companies do it all the time.
I would definitely like to see Google add groups as pseudo-people... And then you can put that group in a Circle and share to it.

People in the group can see who else is in the group. Groups could be curated (need approval to join) or just open to anyone, and moderated (need approval to post) or not depending on the choices made by the group owner.
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Limor Fried (Adafruit): https://plus.google.com/108772200278976934119/posts

Gina Trapani (Lifehacker): https://plus.google.com/113612142759476883204/posts

Merlin Mann (43folders): https://plus.google.com/100537991844787325512/posts

Marco Arment (Instapaper): https://plus.google.com/110386126391315414323/posts

Tim Bray: https://plus.google.com/107606703558161507946/posts
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For pay by the hour services where you can scale up a ton of instances, then destroy them when you're done and only pay for time used, then yeah it's more cost effective to do it that way. However, this is about a monthly payment of nearly $1000 for a server you're supposed to have for a long time (there's no order it for 3 hours, then kill it and only pay for 3 hours of time used). If we were comparing EC2 instances to purchased hardware then yeah, that argument would be better suited.
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I'm in the valley for a visit right now.

My impressions: Mountain View and Palo Alto are beautiful, wonderful places.

SF is a scary place. It's an old city, and it reeks of shit. I was going through some neighborhood once by car and everything around me felt like GTA4.

I took this picture about a block or two away from the caltrain station

http://i53.tinypic.com/2ivy8mv.jpg
The easiest way to correct this would be to allow posting to intersections, disjunctions of circles. It's gonna come for sure.
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Skype may have a good relationship with Facebook, but their products are still indirectly competing. Now that Facebook supports one-to-one video chat, I have no reason to download or register with Skype. Facebook went through great pains to keep user data anonymous from Skype. If Facebook is successful in getting its users to video chat, Skype will effectively become just a technology provider. Once that happens, Facebook could replace the underlying Skype technology with something developed in-house, thus killing Skype entirely.

Of course, given the good relations that Facebook has with Skype/Microsoft, I doubt they have any desire or intention to kill Skype, but the two services are certainly competing for the same users now.

Facebook's video chatting feature has no influence on my decision to use Google+, but it does influence my decision to use Skype.
Testing at scale without real users is quite difficult. You might as well limit the number of initial users so that you can try to iron out the worst bugs before allowing tens of millions of users. Doing a beta for an online service is standard practice - other websites do it, even online videogames do it.
This seems to be the standard in technical computing; people say "codes" instead of "code".
I have several projects atm and feel a bit stressed. In my experience, laughter will help in these situations and reading about Joe's first experience with IE really made my day:

Joe: “I don’t know what anything means.”
(Joe reads the text on IE and clicks on “Suggested Sites”)

Me: “Why did you click on that?”

Joe: “I don’t really know what to do, so I thought this would suggest something to me.”

(Joe reads a notification that there are no suggestions because the current site is private)

Joe: “I guess not.”

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To clarify: I was laughing at our industry as a whole that expects users to be computer literate to the point where ppl like Joe have to struggle really hard to get even the most basic thing done.
Facebook and Google+'s video chat tools compared
I think the rule is you're only allowed if you claim forgetting your ID was an accident; you're not allowed to fly without ID as a liberty advocate.
Well, for me this post is the only one that made sence and thanks to it I now have a clear understanding what e is. "e is the function which is its own derivative" is way less intuitive.
Well, there's StatusNet - you can modify, re-distribute and install on your server. The problem is that nobody uses it (relatively to email or Twittter).
It seems to me that the most active use for G+ at the moment is as a broadcasting system, very much like Twitter. Maybe Google has envisioned this, maybe not. I admit I didn't. I thought Google would have done whatever it takes to promote more intimate and private communication among close friend circles.

But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love to consistently post tech stuffs, but while this activity satisfies his geeky followers, it would annoy his friends and families. And there is no way a tech celeb can manually add his followers into different circles.

I imagine if G+ fixes this problem, it will completely replace Twitter in no time at all.

One solution is to introduce a concept called Channels.

Suppose I follow DHH. The problem is DHH has a lot of interests, ranging from Ruby, entrepreneurship, to Forbes bashing (DHH fans bear it with me here). Now DHH doesn't know who among his followers cares about which of his interests, but he creates some Channels, namely "Ruby", "Entrepreneurship", "Forbes Bashing", etc anyway, so followers can filter themselves.

Now a Rails guy found DHH's G+ page. He would like to follow DHH, but he doesn't care so much about DHH's financial insight. Now that when he adds DHH to his "Follow" Circle, he can choose to pick some among many DHH's Channels and everyone is happy.

Finally, DHH's "public" posts are only visible to those who specifically added him to the "Follow" circle.
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This is what I'd been doing:

1. Go to https://plus.google.com/circles

2. The first rectangle before the listing of your contacts should "Add a new person"

3. Enter email address of invitee and hit Enter

4. Enter a name to associate with above email address, select Circle to add into, and hit Save

I'm not entirely sure that this is the 'correct' way - I was just looking around for a place to enter arbitrary email addresses and this seemed like it. A couple of chaps I'd added this way got in, a couple more had to try a few times, and most of them see the "we've temporarily exceeded capacity" message.
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You paid WAY too much.

Let's look at theoretical numbers. Say you have a mediocre conversion rate of 1%. At 30c per click it will cost you $30 to make a $2 sale. Thus, the most you could have expected from this venture is like $3, but even worse, you managed to not figure on Apple taking 30%, so your'e back to $2 in potential money on a $50 spend.

Ouch.

Next time bid a penny and see what happens. At a penny you could profitably sell your app at a 1% conversion rate. That's $1 cost to make $1.40. Not great money, but it's at least got potential and if you got enough volume of sales you could become a top app and make some sick money.

Also, never listen to Ad Networks on what to bid. Bid based on YOUR profitability, not THEIRS. If you can't afford more than a penny a click, then fine, move on.
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Please find your precious time to review it, your suggestions are greatly appreciated.

Thanks
What Google+ needs to do to be awesome  
#7 Push use of Circles across all Google products; I want the ability to share a Google Doc to all in my ‘Colleagues’ circle, share a Calendar Appointments to all in my ‘Friends’ circle or send a text message from my Android handset to all in my ‘Family’ circle.
Visual Studio is an awful product. It's bloated, performs badly, expensive and extremely unreliable.
I think you're missing his main point, which was he set it to spend "evenly throughout the day" and it was all gone in one minute.
G+ doesn't support Opera... why?
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Thanks Michael - fixed the broken link.
I do sometimes resort to help - it seems like when I want some very task-local information, e.g. What's the syntax for this textbox? Recently I just needed the Exchange recipient policy codes and the help from that dialog box goes right there.

But normally help doesn't help - it asks me for a foo-binding-string, I go to the help to see what one should look like for this program, the help says nothing more than "enter your foo-binding-string here".
Adam smith said that something is worth whatever a person at a particular time is willing to pay for it, there is no consistent, inherrent value in any given trade.

SMS is popular because it is ubiquitous, the mobile phone networks have priced it at a point where the vast majority of users are happy to pay for it. There is no law against high profit margins, nor should there be in my opinion. You could argue there is a competition/monopoly/cartel issue here, but that wasn't too apparent in the article.

And as others have said SMS will eventually go away due to the availability of data plans. I wish all my friends had data plans and were on twitter, I would never need to send an SMS again, until then I can afford it, especially since I don't send very many.
In these cases I've often thought it would be useful to have an "interactive" character guiding you around the application, such as a dog, or maybe a paperclip for a word-processing program.
I've heard it called a bunch of stuff, but yep, that's one of 'em! Sorry i was writing while exhausted :)
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Seeing that I am thinking more and more about creating a personal "never ever work with those people/companies" database...
Perhaps this would be more intuitive if shown graphically. Something like; draw a curve where the gradient is the value. As the value goes up, so does the gradient, so does the value and so on. What you have drawn, e^x is the function where the value is the gradient - exponential growth.
If you have the slightest interest in online communities and social networking I strongly recommend that you sign-up for a Ravelry account and see what the fuss is about. It's truly inspiring how well-designed the community is with its knitting specific features and fun interface. If more communities took the Ravelry approach to social networking Facebook wouldn't have a chance.
Alternate uses with the idea?
The difference there is "I want a link back from your site to my site." That's the point at which the offer loses all possible shreds of credibility.
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I understand the frustration of getting a rejection from Apple, it probably wouldn't sting as much if they had better bedside manner. When it happened to me, I was livid for about 5 minutes, thinking it was actually due to a bug on their end. Then I investigated it and discovered that it was actually my mistake, and didn't feel so bad. But a little less terseness and I wouldn't have had that initial anger because I would have correctly understood the reason for the rejection.

I appreciate greatly the long list of issues you just presented. Despite the tone of my previous post, I was on the fence about android.

I'm dismayed to hear that google doesnt' seem to be supporting the NDK as much going forward, as one of the alternative solutions I'd considered was using the Unity engine. Unity is a game engine, but it can be used to make just about anything you want, and you could concievably do a regular, say, business app in it, with the advantage that the same app can be produced for multiple platforms, including iOS and android.

It seems to me, the way to support android would be to do a web app. Presumably the browser, being based on webkit, works and is reasonably targetable. But that limits android as a platform to situations where a web app works as a business model.

Thanks again!
That's not Google taking away traffic that belongs to a website. That's either 1) user error (typing a string of letters != typing a URL) or 2) poor design on Mozilla's part.
This is a good list. I think these are the final pieces needed to bring G+ up to the level of all the existing sites.
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I needed to request access to use the spreadsheet, not sure if thats what you meant. Either way, i just noticed that they closed invites again anyways.

Regardless, if you get in and can send invites, ill appreaciate it if you send one to b.surmanski@. (gmail)

Thanks anyways!
It seems like their bandwidth costs are a bit high, though, which would mitigate the savings in many cases. Anyone know if they'll play ball and include free bandwidth? This would be a great machine to host Destructoid.com if so.
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It's not the same sharing relationship. You have to be friends with someone before you add them to a Facebook List. Google+ has no concept of "friends". How you see someone is not necessarily how they see you.
Your explanation appears more elegant, but it isn't simpler. I as an algebra student can grasp nearly all of the lesson from betterexplained. I haven't yet learned derivatives, so your explanation doesn't much sense. I very much appreciate the lower knowledge level explanation, as all my teacher would say when we covered natural log was that e was a magic number used in growth equations.
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Make it easy for developers to build awesome apps to sit on the google+ platform - make it much clearer and more user-friendly than facebook, and you've got a game-changer ...
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Probably lack of resources.

Opera has allways been one of the nicest browsers, at one point in time even the only sane IE alternative, but never got the market share it deserves, except on the dombphones as Opera Mini.
Where does the non-Euclidean geometry come in? OK, I see normal circles, you could interpret that as lines in the hyperbolic plane (though I'm not sure having two planes overlap like that is meaningful), but it's not like that interpretation is necessary and I don't see anything else that suggests non-Euclidean. But I must admit I'm not really too familiar with geometry; anyone else can say?
I knew I'd forgotten a bunch of the buttons... You just reminded me about the "your ears are burning" feature -- if your name is mentioned in a thread you get a message about it, so you can jump in and see what people are talking about.
Point 7 seems like the biggest for me. Recently wanted to plan/discuss a few days away with the family. A shared google calendar with a circle and discussion around that would be superb for such things.
That's not SEO. That's spam. SEO is about optimizing portions of your website for people using a search engine. Lumping all SEO together is akin to lumping all hackers together as criminals. I equate the techniques to those used in journalism. You want to front load the article with the most important information. The least important information should be at the end.
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Part of the problem is getting people to come to new reddits, even if they might be generally interesting. One of the reason some of the bigger ones are so big is that they come as default subscriptions with every new account. But yeah, it's a very intense spotlight at this point.

I'm wondering if they've ever thought of just building up pseudo-random front pages for different visitors. So everybody doesn't just see the same 25 links (which to be honest are mostly imgur at this point). Reddit almost suffers from a critical mass problem. New submissions, if timed poorly will go nowhere, while others will fly to the moon simply because other people have upvoted them.
Excellent article Jon. Shared it on Google+ :)
It looks good. I've seen a few startups trying to use restaurant kitchens like this for home delivery meals and I had wondered whether the economics would really work out for them since they would be requiring restaurants to make small deliveries to lots of people.

Bigger deliveries to larger groups is the obvious solution to that. Good luck :)
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true, but as far as i know Opera is the browser that cares the most about standards, so i do not understand why G+ should be incompatible.
Also i think that i should be able to choose if i want to navigate anyway, even if the website is incompatible.
So, are these massive leaks of user information happening more and more often, or are we just hearing about them more often?
They doesn't support Opera also in Gmail, Calendar, etc..
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=...
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6557
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Is it possible to do projects like glowing bacteria and stuff like that with this kit ? (if that sounded like a noob question, that's because I'm one :) )
Turns out there was an undisclosed character limit on questions, and posting such fails silently.

Otherwise, the question (and answer!) are posted there now. Thanks, Jared!
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events? this seems like the most obvious thing missing from g+. have i missed it somewhere?
This.

Ease of integration with app and game circles could do wonders.
I noticed that profiles.google.com vanity urls redirect to Plus.
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Creating events with Google Agenda and being able to show them in G+ would be awesome !
A really well crafted Google+ experience for the iPad would make it stand out.

I can't speak to Facebook's iPad interface as I don't use it, but G+ on the iPad is pretty awesome in my opinion, just through safari.

It's not a native app (through the app store), but it's a really nice just-for-ipad interface that suits me just fine.

Author: have you not tried this and are therefore unaware, or do you simply disagree with my opinion that the site they serve to iPad users is easily good enough?
Lack of resources is a answer I am willing to accept from say Grooveshark. But, when Google and Facebook offer that same excuse, its a lot harder to digest.
Also, once you realize that Opera supports most Google products without any special optimization, that fallacy of that logic becomes apparent. Remember that Google optimized Google Instant for the listed browsers, but it didn't for Opera. Yet, Google Instant worked in Opera right from the beginning, as long as you masked your useragent as Firefox. Yes, changing the useragent fixed the incompatibility problem!
Same thing is happening with G+. Mask as Firefox and the notification and share options that are normally not available in the Google bar in Opera because visible.
Browser sniffing sucks. Its time that Google followed what it preached and developed websites that follow the spirit of "Open Web".
Related Reading Material: http://techie-buzz.com/browsers/google-instant-opera.html
http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2009/11/05/the-lengths-to-go-t...
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They may be selling well, but the reviews are quite harsh. A common sentiment: "your phone is likely more powerful than this piece of garbage."
The article hit the nail on the head - this community was built from within, by people who know and love their craft.

It's hard to see a similar thing becoming a more "general" community - reputation is a strongly guarded thing in these tighter-knit communities (woe betide you if you rip someone off on a pattern or steal money/etc. from other knitters, or don't come through on a swap).

Also it's a great way to get involved in the indie craft scene. Crafting materials can be hard to acquire, especially good quality and variety of fibres and yarns, so it's great to be able to go to the source of indie dyers and spinners to get hand-made and custom work done. I know of several indie dyers who would not exist if it hadn't been for Ravelry. Anyone can have an immediate audience for their related goods and services, and there is a great appreciation for quality work (whether it is dying, spinning, or pattern-designing). This sort of immediately accessible feedback is really good for community building.

I don't think it'd be a good idea for all communities to copy Ravelry piece for piece, since it's such a contextual site, but you can certainly think of Ravelry as a case study for an excellent design and response to user needs.
It seems the OP was updated with a better list...
I have a flashblock extension - so the facebook part was blocked but the +1 was there. Interesting all the problems with the page though