I was logged in, yes, didn't seem to help.

Well, I had left my email a day or two before trying Andy's link.

If anyone has any spare invites I'm quite tempted to try this - unlike Wave, quite a few of my friends seem to rate Plus.

My address is just my username @ gmail.com

Cheers

Rory

I'll send one your way!

edit:
hmm curious. About all I could do was to 'add you to a circle'. I can't seem to find any 'invite' button or even a tally of who I've invited or how many invites I have left.

The invites have been down since the evening of the Google+ announcement.

Floodgates may be open again. 2 people directly invited me, and a few others had me in their circles. Emails came in just a little bit ago for it.

Yeah, invites appear to be working now.

But it still doesn't seem to accept "Dutch" people

Not working right now - message says over capacity for now...

Oh, god. Me, too, I guess. Lowest priority for me, though.

Strange, I'm not having any problems. Maybe they ran out of disk space again?

I'm loving it, by the way. Here's what sold me:

- went out with wife and friends on July 4th
- took photos
- next day, noticed that those photos had uploaded to Picasa Web Albums in the background automatically
- quickly and easily shared those photos only with the people I wanted to

It took about five seconds to share them, and that was amazing. After that, I was thinking "so long, Facebook."

I was pseudo-requesting an invite.

That's pretty cool, though.

Oh, I'm sorry, I'll send one along.

I'd like to give G+ a shot too. So, could someone send me an invite? Thanks in advance.

der ( dot ) blitzen ( at ) gmail ( dot ) com

Cheers,

Peter

Invite sent.

Great, thanks a lot!

Cheers,

Peter

Did you do anything to upload the pictures, or just put them on the computer? If nothing, that scares me.

The Google+ Android app will auto-upload pictures taken, and put them into an album that is private to only you. Those setting can be changed in the app, but the default is for the upload to a private album.

Like Ben said, it's all automatic, but nobody else can see those photos until I explicitly share them. Even if I never did, I'm happy to have my photos going off to a safe location in case something bad happens to my phone or I accidentally delete a photo or something.

I'm really really loving this feature.

Yeah, that's a pretty handy feature.

I'd like to see more finite control over what appears in my Stream. For example, I never want to see someone's check-in. I've actually been removing people from my circles if they check-in because I don't care that you
"Lunch.

Peabody's Bar and Grill"

Fortunately removing them from my circle doesn't change what I can view from them. It just removes it from my front door. I can still see their content if I go to incoming or to their page manually.

I agree, Google needs to improve the stream significantly, or at least give better options or a choice of default. I really dislike the Buzz-like way that things can pop back up again.

I've actually always been impressed with what Facebook chooses to present to me. I really wonder what algorithm it uses to decide that. I know a lot of people hate it and want the strict timeline, but I like it.

Caleb, I like your solution, and I think Google should borrow another feature from Facebook and let you keep people in a circle, but have the control to hide that person from your stream. I really like that I can do that in Facebook.

What some people are doing is creating two sets of circles: circles that categorize people for outbound messages and circles that categorize them for inbound messages. When you separate this, you can now effective keep a short list for when you're busy in addition to following everybody else.

The amount of pain involved in effectively tracking all your friends twice is leading many to suggest that you want some sort of set arithmetic so you can say "this set equals everybody minus these losers" or equivalent. Presumably Google is working on such a thing, but the question is whether such a thing would be in any way usable.

Why do I get the feeling that Google+ is just the start of some nerd's dream of making everyone in the world use Venn diagrams on a daily basis?

Has anyone figured out if you can make the instant upload album in Picasa public?

You cannot. I'm certain Google does not want that possibility. There's no doubt that it could be horribly abused. I can see people sneaking onto a friend's/sibling's/whoever's account and changing that setting without the person knowing. That could potentially lead to a great deal of embarrassment.

I suppose they could set up some checks or something, like have it send you a text message when the setting was changed, but I think Google would like to avoid any chance of the potential fiasco that could lead to.

I just want the photos from my phone loaded into an album my friends can see. I don't really like what google+ has done to my Picasa albums. It added instant upload, photos from posts, scrapbook, and profile pictures. What the heck do they need all these folders for?

Today I took a picture from instant uploads put it in a post so the photo gets moved to photos from posts then I deleted the post but it leaves the photo in photos from posts.

I don't really see the big deal. I'll agree it's a little messier, but not that bad. I don't see "scrapbook, and profile pictures," by the way, just the other two.

They're simply not going to make it possible to change the permissions on that album. If you want a service like you're talking about, PicPlz might be the thing you're looking for.