How do you get Google Plus invites?

As we all know, Google Plus is in beta mode. This implies that it is not open for the public yet, and any access has to be through personal invites.

So the question arises, where do you go to get invites? A lot of people have been trying to find answers to this all important question. So here are some real answers:

1. Ask your friends

You must have some friends – everyone has some. Ask them if they are, or plan to be, on Google Plus. You don’t have to ask them via Facebook or email. Just call em up! Ask them to paste your email address into the “who to share” box and share some item with them. They will automatically get added.

2. Check out Youtube

A lot of people on Youtube – and we mean a lot – are trying to provide invites to Google Plus. Do a search on Youtube and you’re bound to find people offering to add you to their circle of friends.

3. Ask a Journalist

Journalists and press teams usually get invited to ultra-beta offerings before other people do. If you know a journalist or media person, now may be the time to suck up to them in the hope of you getting an invite.

4. Beg Mark Zuckerberg

The owner of Facebook is actually a well known personality on rival Google Plus system. Ask Mark – who knows – maybe he might be feeling ultra-generous today.

5. Fill in Google’s own form

Yes, Google actually  has a form for requesting information on the Google Plus project. You just might get an invite, who knows? Just fill in the form.

6. If all else fails

If all else fails, just put your name and email address in the comments below. Maybe we can invite you!

Can Google compete in social?

Google has a pretty large task in creating a successful social network. This isn't the first time the company has tried to do this either, but early buzz about Google+ has been fairly positive, though there is certainly some negative out there too.

Does Google + have the staying power to make an impact in the social media world or will it go the way of Google Wave? 

Google has its work cut out for it competing with the monster that is Facebook in the social networking space, even though Google says it's not really a Facebook competitor. Right.

Google has plenty of obstacles to overcome if this is going to be a huge success. Here are some of them.

1. Most people don't want to leave Facebook. 

Sure there are plenty of people out there looking for a good alternative to Facebook. Some of them have found it with Twitter. Some want something better. That said, it is highly doubtful that the majority of Facebook users are looking for something else. They like Facebook just fine, and aren't looking for a reason to leave.

Sure, it's possible to use both, but as long as people still have the majority of their friends on Facebook, and not so many on Google+ this is going to be a hard nut to crack. Not an impossible nut, but a hard one.

2. People are already gravitating more toward Twitter. 

Speaking of Twitter, it is growing pretty well. It's also about to be integrated into the hugely popular iOS. Many of the users will also be using Facebook. Google+ is simply another thing to add to the list, and could be deemed an added burden.

3. Google's previous attempts at social

Google doesn't have the best track record or reputation when it comes to social. Some of this is simply perception, because YouTube is social and it's obviously a huge success, but it was acquired by Google - not created by Google, and one could argue that it's not the social aspect of YouTube that is its main driving force, but the simple fact that it has tons and tons of stuff to watch.

4. Google's reputation for privacy

When Google launched Google Buzz, it was a huge privacy fiasco, and one that is still in the news. Google greatly damaged its reputation in the area of privacy with this. It's not hard to find commentary throughout the web indicating growing distrust of the company in general, whether justified or not. Reputation can go a long way.

5. People largely still think about Google as search

One of Google's biggest challenges is its existing success. Google has become synonymous with search. Google is a verb, that means to search for something on Google. People don't think to go to Google to share things necessarily. They think to go to Google to search.

Yes, Google has many products that do many different things outside of the realm of search, but first and foremost to most people, Google is still search, and Facebook is friends. That's another hard nut to crack.

6. The Like Button

Speaking of Facebook being friends, that "like" button that is everywhere on the Internet, has been quite powerful, and is the premier way that people share content now, I believe. Google has the +1 Button. Not so much. At this point (disregarding the Buzz button for a moment, which doesn't have much to do with Google+ at the moment), publishers are asking people to either "like" this and share with your friends, or "+1" this so that other people that you may or may not know may be able to find it in search results for some query that may or may not be searched for. Which one is going to get clicked more?

7. The Retweet button

See numbers 2 and 6.

8. Bing

Back to number 5 for a moment. Google is synonymous with search, but it is still the key ingredient to keeping people using Google+. Meanwhile, Bing is just going to continue to gain market share. The more people using Bing as their default search engine, means the less people using Google, which will likely mean less using Google+.

Realistically, Bing currently doesn't come close to Google in market share at this point. Whether it ever will remains to be seen, but so far it's been growing fairly steadily, and now Google faces FTC scrutiny over its competitive practices. When Microsoft was in a similar situation, it greatly set the company back in innovation for years, many people say. Depending on the outcome of that, it's hard to say what Google's future will hold.

9. Yahoo

Yahoo still makes up another significant segment of search market share, and maybe even more importantly, It still has a very strong presence in other key areas like email,finance, news, etc.

Part of the Google+ strategy is that it extends across Google products. Some of these products compete directly with some of Yahoo's strong points. Let's not forget that Yahoo is also in the connected TV space, where Google is still trying to gain more significant market share.

10. Complexity

The sheer complexity of Google+ may also work against it, particularly when you pair it with number one. You're trying to get people to use your service instead of Facebook's, while trying to sell an overly-complicated concept (mainly with Circles. .).

In the end, it might not really be as complex as it seems, but again, perception goes a long way. If it even seems complicated at a glance, and all of your friends are already doing just fine on Facebook, how big is the incentive?

To be clear, I'm not saying any of these things mean that Google+ won't succeed. It's entirely possible that it could become a huge hit. It wouldn't even have to dethrone Facebook to be a big hit. I think we can consider Twitter a hit, and it doesn't even come close to Facebook in terms of users.

Suffice it to say, Google has its work cut out for it. 

If Google can put these obstacles behind them, what's to stop Google + from overtaking Facebook as the social media platform of choice?

Google+ With Facebook Theme

The social network war is on fire, as google has come up with its gaint social network, Google Plus. It is still in testing phase (people can only join through invitation, get one here), and in return of this, Mr. Mark Zuckerberg has announced a big surprise for the facebook users in this week, Can you guess it? The early response of G+ has been good, and the result is coming out to be positive by the users. Well, i think G+ will leave behind Facebook soon, rest the time will tell.

G+ also offer a interface look like facebook, it is a good reason for the users who like facebook but want to switch to G+ for better social experience. You can your G+ looks to facebook by the use of this awesome widget: Google + : Facebook, Stylish Extension or with this CSS Code

I am sure you gonna love it :)

Import Facebook Contacts To Google+ via Yahoo

Most of people must be waiting for the chance to use Google+ as a new social network, but finding all your friends from facebook and add them you Google+ would be a hectic. Though there is not a direct way to import your facebook contact to Google+, and i dont think so facebook will provide this feature :P, but still you can manage to import facebook contact to Google+, It can be done with the help of facebook connect, its a little lengthy process, but it actually works.

To start this process, log in to your yahoo account, link your facebook account in yahoo through facebook connect, then goto contact and import all your facebook friends, If you find it difficult, Check this simple guide for this step.

When done importing, log into your Google+ account and from Find and Invite page you can import all your yahoo contacts including facebook contact... its not a direct method, but doing this much is worthy at least :)

Facebook Inspired from Google+ Circle

Few months back, it was being said that Google Orkut is coping stuff from Facebook, now guess what? its time for facebook to get inspired (or say to copy) from the Google+ Circle. The Facebook engineers worked on the circle hack, though it doesn't have advanced design and features like Google+.

Making friend list on Facebook is little messy, i thing most of people doesn't have noticed this feature on Facebook. If you want to make a list, first go to 'friends page', than 'edit friends', 'create list' and something more.... its crucial to get that same thing like Google+ on Facebook.


Well on Google+ this all mess can be done on a single page just with little drag and drop, i know you people are champ in that.

Beware of Fake Google+ Invites

Its hardly a week google+ released, and a group of hackers had targeted it for a scam, If you receive any email invitation from an unknown person to join Google+, beware it can be this scam. The emails look very much similar to the invites sent by google, if you click on the link in the message(which we don't recommend), it will redirect you to a penis enlargement products website.

Scam for such a big release is very common, as some time back at the launch of Google Music, same kind of phishing was seen, You should always be careful if you receive any mail from a third party or any unknown person.

The Social War - Facebook vs Google+

In today's world of WWW, where social network has become a big thing, people are so addicted to social networking sites, and where Facebook is ruling above all, but now what? Google+ has been launched, Google+ is the biggest competitor of Facebook, though currently Google+ is in its test phaze, but it has enough potential to hit the web and become the king of all social networks, and it would be a big blow to Facebook.

Google+ is a well advanced version of Facebook, which people would obviously like to use, Google had called it as a "Real Life Sharing" network, as it is in its testing phaze, most of people are just waiting to have a first look of Google+. Even its testing phaze has fired enough alarm in the Facebook factory, resulting Mr. Mark Zuckerberg announced a surprise for Facebook users in this week.

This social war is going to be on fire as soon Google+ is open for all.

Will all people migrate to Google+ to enjoy advanced features leaving Facebook dead or Facebook will rule in future also, please share your views in comments.