Originally Posted by Duncan Say, does anyone have a Google Wave invite?
This would be a good joke if I didn't enjoy Google+ much more than Wave. Also if Wave wasn't available to everyone. Also, if Wave was already down. Yeah, it'd probably be funnier if Wave was already down.
A phone service provider is a third party, is it not? Can't always get together with a person in person, especially when you don't live anywhere near each other.
Yes, but to the best of my knowledge a phone/email does not disclose my information to anyone else bar the intended recipients.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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12th July, 2011 at 22:19:41 -
Originally Posted by ..::hagar::.. Yes, but to the best of my knowledge a phone/email does not disclose my information to anyone else bar the intended recipients.
Google Plus does not disclose your information to anyone else bar the intended recipients.
Originally Posted by ..::hagar::.. Yes, but to the best of my knowledge a phone/email does not disclose my information to anyone else bar the intended recipients.
Originally Posted by Duncan Say, does anyone have a Google Wave invite?
i think it was pretty funny the way it was.
also a bunch of people are asking me to join google plus (looks at some directions) and i might give in in the end. is it really worth it? wont i just give away even more of my information with this?
also probably google wave was good. its just that a lot of people never got a chance to use it. i dont know. it looked interesting at least so shame is pretty much dead already.
How is it that those Winkle twins are able to sue the facebook guy for a shedload of money, for supposedly stealing their idea, and yet it's totally okay for google to make such a blatant ripoff of facebook?
I'm a little confused by that.
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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13th July, 2011 at 12:40:35 -
Originally Posted by MasterM also probably google wave was good. its just that a lot of people never got a chance to use it. i dont know. it looked interesting at least so shame is pretty much dead already.
Nah. Wave was interesting, but it had a lot of issues. In implementation, speed AND the invite system. But technology developed for Wave at least made it into other Google services, like their collaborative document editing, which is now a part of Docs.
How is it that those Winkle twins are able to sue the facebook guy for a shedload of money, for supposedly stealing their idea, and yet it's totally okay for google to make such a blatant ripoff of facebook?
I'm a little confused by that.
Facebook was an idea, which actually can't just be patented as-is. It's the specific implementation of such an idea that is patentable. The patentable part of Facebook is their algorithms - how they "calculate" and manage the whole contact relations thing, stuff like that. According to Wikipedia, 'a [software] claim is patentable if it contains "a mathematical formula [and] implements or applies the formula in a structure or process which, when considered as a whole, is performing a function which the patent laws were designed to protect".'
Thus, if Google Plus works very differently in the background from Facebook, it's likely not infringing any patents. The fact that they're putting Circles central to the system already shows their algorithm is sufficiently different. In the end, it's an alternative implementation to a similar idea.
Besides, I'm more surprised at Fortresscraft versus Minecraft. Now THAT would be a straight rip-off.
I still may have G+ invites left, by the way. I honestly can't tell, though.
Originally Posted by DaVince Besides, I'm more surprised at Fortresscraft versus Minecraft. Now THAT would be a straight rip-off.
Minecraft itself is not a wholly original idea. See dwarf fortress, infiniminer, and all the games similar in style that minecraft actually draws its inspiration from.
Not to mention that minecraft generally welcomes the competitors that are "ripping" them off. i remember when terraria was first released, notch tweeting about how great of a game it was, and that he needed to get back to work instead of playing it so much.
i had not heard of fortress craft until just now, and everything i read kept referencing minecraft, and to which one was better. Thats free publicity for minecraft.
It's crazy how much money minecraft brings in on a day-to-day basis, even after all this time its been out. I love minecraft, but keeping up with the numbers is almost more fascinating than the game itself.
As for google+ ripping off facebook, thats a shot in the dark guys. If you were ON google+ you'd see that its VASTLY different than facebook. Not to mention, that social networking is not the sole property of any company. now if google made a social networking site and called it bookface, then they'd get the bejeesus sued out of them, just from the name alone.
if i write something on my google+ wall (thats a stream, right?) and Internet Person and Real Life Person BOTH reply (yet they aren't friends and arent in the same groups) can they still see that they both replied to it. see the reply of the other person?
i want to hide internet world from real world yet i dont want to make double posts for different groups.
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