There was a recent announcement that G+ opened the doors to businesses and organizations for g+ pages. This means we can have an official G+ page with google’s blessing. We’ve opened one up here. We plan on having “hangouts” from time to time so people can show off what they’ve done. Don’t worry if you’re not into the g+ thing. All stories will still be published here on the site. Maybe we can take a page from Adafruit’s book and record some online “show and tell” sessions to share with you guys.
Of course, sometimes it can be more fun to follow the writers individually, since we are more prone to post opinions and things that aren’t official hackaday info, you can find me,( Caleb Kraft ), pretty easily. For the others, you’ll have to search for their names. None of them are online right now so I can ask permission to link to them.
I’m still waiting for them to remove their 18+ age requirement so I don’t always have to log into a fake account to check my G+ page.
Ditto. For some reason Google thinks I’m 13 and won’t allow changes. I guess I’ll have to wait another five years before I can use Google+ and vote again.
One has to ask. “Why” ?
Because we(I) seek every opportunity to interact with readers. We have a facebook page, twitter, g+ etc. Its kind of standard business practice, especially since we don’t advertise. That and I really like the hangouts.
@baobrien
Is this something they introduced recently? I only ask as it strikes me as odd as I myself joined G+ as it first went into beta whilst 17.
I guess you set a fake age on your Google account when you originally set it up to get past some other age limited thing.
Maybe this time it will last longer than the original hackaday page, which migrated to hacky smith then went missing although I remember a hangout before the admins woke up. I presumed at the time the realnames policy had done for them :)
Well, google allows business pages and we followed their rules, so this one should last. The hangouts were fun, i’ll have to do that again.
Google+, now watching you even closer
I could see that being a major concern for many people. I’m already in the public eye. You can find out everything about me by googling me already.
oh i thought that g+ meant rated g (family safe pages)
Oh,
Google+ still exists?
I thought it had vanished…
This will end in tears
I deleted my account yesterday. I’m just not comfortable having all my online aliases and my real name collected in one place.
guys lets just use diaspora as it just the de facto social network, is just went public!
Unfortunately that name alone will just make it die, that does not sound ‘happening’.
I blocked such social networks like facebook and google plus.
Meh, Google-
This thing were hackaday’s comment entry remains in reply mode after you already did a reply is most annoying, and it will screw my posts up many times for sure, it’s hard to keep in mind since only hackaday has that bug.
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