Google Releases Spaces Group-Sharing App On Android, iOS, and Desktop (blogspot.com) 33
Google on Monday released Spaces, an app that is designed to make it easier to share links, videos and other things from the Web in group conversations. The app, which has been in private beta for a few months, is available for Android, iOS, desktop and mobile web. Google explains: With Spaces, it's simple to find and share articles, videos and images without leaving the app, since Google Search, YouTube, and Chrome come built in. When someone shares something new to a space, the conversational view lets you see what the group is talking about without missing a beat. And if you ever want to find something that was shared earlier -- articles, videos, comments or even images -- a quick search lets you pull it up in a snap.
Google Wave (Score:3, Insightful)
Welcome to Google Wave!
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I shared it with all my Google Buzz friends
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Really? It hasn't come up on my Google Reader feed yet?
Do no evil, friends, do no evil (Score:2)
I put it in Google Base, but it didn't show up anywhere. Then I put up a text ad for it, but all that came out was this huge Flash thing put up by someone else. Then I tried to post it in G+. but, they said that wasn't associated with a Real Name so they banned the post. Then they scanned it and put it up for everyone to read regardless of the copyright notice anyway. But I know what I'm going to do to get around this. I'm going to put it up in Picassa. That'll show 'em.
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I can't wait to let all my friends on Orkut know about this...
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Google went from my most loved company to most hated in those years where they started killing off every product and then Labs itself.
I like MICROSOFT more now. MICROSOFT.
At least their damn Maps are more up-to-date than Googles shit maps.
I can see my CHILDHOOD in Google Maps still. 29 FYI. Not massively old, but COME ON Google.
It's not like I live in some backwards little village or something, I live in a popular port town that has completely changed in those 29 years.
There are 3 whole new branches of
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Slack buys Spaces (Score:1)
Either there is some trademark dispute going on, or can someone cut through the confusion?
https://slackhq.com/spaces-joins-slack-5ad3a6cd6324#.5r788wjcu
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Google needs of give up (Score:3)
Also, I must admit, for some purposes Bing is much, much better than Google. And many products that built some loyalty to google, like Docs, Drive, etc, are becoming really dated and have supplanted by better options.
In any case, given Googles tacker record on building lame tools, then ending support abruptly even on tools that aren't lame, like Hangouts, it would not be prudent for anyone to treat this as anything more that temporary toy.
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Like Microsoft and Mobile,Google seems to be unable to do social media.
That's not true.
Google+ was generally liked and appreciated, but it's a matter of critical mass. No one is going to use a new social media platform because it's pointless unless your friends are there. And BTW, your friends are thinking the same thing. Nothing is going to beat Facebook until either Facebook does something to alienate their users or Google or someone else comes up with something fantastic that Facebook can't copy. Both of those are extremely unlikely.
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Facebook does things to alienate their users all the time. The problem is that the users complain about it on Facebook instead of leaving.
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If they aren't leaving it's not alienating by definition. Any change they introduce is going to have some subset of people whining. And a small subset of people on Facebook is a lot of people.
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You are confused. You're not the user. You're the product. And your info is shared with their customers, the advertisers.
So hand over your Real Name and remember to smile.
Keep walling-up that garden (Score:2)
Why should I? (Score:3, Informative)
I mean, really.
I'm so fed up with all this balkanized bullshit, all these companies hoping that they will be the next big thing and thus capturing the market.
Facebook failed with their messenger bullshit, forcing them to buy what'sapp in order to keep their data siphon going. Google hasn't yet figured out that people don't want to be locked in and are still trying. I'm betting that they will probably buy up snapchat in order to get access to that user base.
Blackberry had the market sewn shut until they repeatedly screwed up so badly that they managed to make themselves irrelevant.
Skype... I don't even wanna talk about that given how badly Microsoft has lobotomized it.
Apple's imessenger has been relatively successful, partly for the same reason blackberry had the market before (ie: so many people have i-devices that there's a good chance that it will just work), partly because it integrates with SMS so you can still message people who don't use imessage, and partly because handoff integration lets you deal with messages on any other apple device you own, which is a pretty darn big thing and something almost no other vendor provides.
And then when you move away from those, there's Snapchat, Viber, WhatsApp, and the 5 bajillion other instant messengers out there, none of whom inter-operate and thus requiring you to have a dozen client apps running at all times on your computer or phone just to keep in contact with everyone.
I would love to see Signal become dominant, unfortunate they appear to have painted themselves into some kind of corner cause they only have mobile apps, and the "desktop" app is just a chrome extension in beta that only connects to the android version. They're, quite simply, moving too slowly.
Telegram appears to be the trailing racehorse that is picking up steam, because they have almost as good security (debatable, but for many people good enough) as Signal, but actually has their feature set down. All major mobile platforms, all major desktop platforms, and it Just Works(tm), including full and seamless sharing of unencrypted messages between multiple devices. No audio or video chat, but messaging and attachment handling is reasonably solid.
If the industry flat out insists on balkanizing, then Telegram seems to be the "screw the man!" option that the average person (ie: people who have never heard of XMPP, and don't really care either), can use.
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How do you share a group? (Score:1)
Coming soon to a Slashdot near you... (Score:5, Insightful)
Google cancels Spaces Group-Sharing App.
That's awesome! (Score:1)
No privacy and no control over content (Score:2)
Apple Called... (Score:2)
Something like Annotate It would be great (Score:2)
Annotate it [annotateit.org] was supposed to let you add highlights and annotations to a webpage and share them with others using a custom URL. It's a hit and miss though, since it doesn't work on https webpages. This could be the foundation of a much better kind of social network - allow people to highlight and share comments or commentary directly for a webpage.