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jee wrote:Just as a matter of interest... my bookface gmail addie is a bogus :) Never use it if you want to reach me :)
Same here, just checked it to collect the Google+ invite Annie sent there and I have over a thousand unread mails. Mostly spam from Facebook and Youtube... so don't send mail there.
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Mmmmm I wonder if I have replied to any of your emails there. If I did - it is spam ;-)
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jamin_za wrote:
jee wrote:Just as a matter of interest... my bookface gmail addie is a bogus :) Never use it if you want to reach me :)
Same here, just checked it to collect the Google+ invite Annie sent there and I have over a thousand unread mails. Mostly spam from Facebook and Youtube... so don't send mail there.
Silly bugger. Give me your updated mail then please? ;) :P
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:lol:

Alright everyone Invites are now closed.
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Again? What is Google up to? They're getting this one wrong IMHO.
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So we are stuck with the people we have
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Tribble wrote:So we are stuck with the people we have
I guess until they decide to open the next round of invites.
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I only say this because I am unable to send any out. Maybe I am capped? Anyone else have a invite button?

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I will go and look
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there isn't an "invite" button anymore.....

so this means that i am stuck with you lot till it opens again..... :tongue:

on another note.... i am no longer safe as mommy dearest as now joined the ranks and is on google+...... :evil:
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I have a button to create a hangout but no invite button. But I did invite people this morning using the other method. Will see if they get it

@KK = put her in a different circle to your other friends. The theory is that she cannot see what you say to them.
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I still have an invite button

Edit: scratch that. Ctrl+F5 took care of that :|
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Tribble wrote: @KK = put her in a different circle to your other friends. The theory is that she cannot see what you say to them.
It would be a great test.

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it would... :twisted:

but i see invites are open again...
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KatrynKat wrote: but i see invites are open again...
Lol, Google can't make up its mind.
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Stuart wrote:
KatrynKat wrote: but i see invites are open again...
Lol, Google can't make up its mind.
do i dare say what all men say.... :?:
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KatrynKat wrote:
Stuart wrote:
KatrynKat wrote: but i see invites are open again...
Lol, Google can't make up its mind.
do i dare say what all men say.... :?:
That a woman's controlling the Google+ invite system?
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that too...
but no....
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This is funny and explains why the Invite did a disappearing act :lol: :lol: :lol:

http://venturebeat.com/2011/07/09/googl ... isk-space/
Google on today’s massive Google+ spam influx: “We ran out of disk space”
July 9, 2011 | Devindra HardawarView Comments

Many Google+ users saw a massive amount of notification email messages from the service this afternoon, and now Google’s head of social Vic Gundotra has an explanation.

“For about 80 minutes we ran out of disk space on the service that keeps track of notifications,” Gundotra wrote on Google+ tonight. “Hence our system continued to try sending notifications. Over, and over again. Yikes.”

The spam notifications seems to have affected users differently. I received a quick succession of 41 repeat notification messages around 5PM Eastern this afternoon, while others I’ve talked to didn’t notice any issues. Luckily for me (and I assume many others), the spam messages got filed under a single conversation thread on Gmail. On my iPhone, however, I received a headache-inducing string of 41 individual messages.

“We didn’t expect to hit these high thresholds so quickly, but we should have,” Gundotra added. Indeed, it seems strange for a company with seemingly limitless resources to by stymied by a simple disk space issue.

Gundotra apologized for the spam issues several times throughout his message. He also reiterated that Google+ is still in a “field trial,” a reminder which he’s likely hoping will lead users to go easy on Google over the gaffe. Google typically keeps its services in perpetual beta testing mode, which some have criticized as a way for the company to slough off blame for any technical issues that may arise.

But we’ll likely see even more issues than normal arise from Google+, since its “field trial” status — which has led Google to limit participation in the service so that it can see how Google+ handles the initial stampede of traffic — seems to indicate that it may even be less mature than a typical Google beta test.

For a field test though, Google+ seems to be off to a good start. It’s been the most buzzed about tech topic since it was announced last week, and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt also recently said that it has millions of users (not that that’s a huge surprise).

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Finally got into Google+ :) hmm i may drop facebook one day soon.
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OK.. currently have ALL my different groups of friends in ONE circle... its going to be ult!

for now....
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Oh Just make sure that you turn off the Google Web history... otherwise you can see the whole history (at the little gear thingie)
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jee wrote:Oh Just make sure that you turn off the Google Web history... otherwise you can see the whole history (at the little gear thingie)
Did Kat see all your naughty searches :?:
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jamin_za wrote:
jee wrote:Oh Just make sure that you turn off the Google Web history... otherwise you can see the whole history (at the little gear thingie)
Did Kat see all your naughty searches :?:
Ja, but she was standing right behind her taking notes.
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