A quick note on Google+

[matgb]

Lots and lots of the people I normally get all with trying out a new web feature have had emails to Google+ and are having fin getting it working.

I haven't had an invite yet.

It looks cool. Nothing groundbreaking, but some substantially well through through UI tweaks to existing ideas (Dreamwidth users are probably pointing at the "Circles" idea and going "ours" quite a bit, whereas G+ is laughing at the management interface...)

So, y'know, if anyone has a spare invite kicking around ;-)

ETA: I know have an account, and it is good-never actually received an invite, I just got in via a link, weird.
Mat Bowles - Google+

Comments

[andrewducker]

Are Circles that different from, say, LJ's friends lists? Or even the friends filtering you can do on FB?

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Yes. [As far as I've played with it to date,] you can't put people into more than one circle at a time, unlike LJ filters. But you can choose to see one/two/many circles on your list, and post things to one/some/all circles. It seems to be more like DW friending than LJ friending as far as privacy goes.

[andrewducker]

You can have people in multiple circles (I've done this).

And you can post to multiple friends lists at once in LJ as well.

DW's main difference to LJ's friending system is that you can grant access to people without putting them into a filter for reading - and they know it. You can't do that with G+.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Of course you can post to multiple friends lists in LJ.
...unlike LJ filters. But you can
This indicates "the first thing is not like LJ. The second thing is the opposite of that" [i.e. like LJ].

I'm still unable to have people in multiple circles; I will have to play with that a bit more and find out why.

[andrewducker]

Sorry, misread you there. Clearly I'm not properly awake yet.

I managed to drag someone into a circle when they were already in a different one. When I hovered over them both circles glowed. I wonder why that would work for me and not you. Seems odd.

[matgb]

From what others have said about them, no, not really, except for the vastly superior user interface for them, and the extra emphasis they've put on them.

But until I've played, can't be sure.

[andrewducker]

I like the fact that you _have_ to put someone in a circle to add them.

And yes, it's kinda pretty.