A day after Google unveiled its brand new social networking service Google+, the company decided to open up the invitation process late Wednesday afternoon to those lucky enough to have already been invited to participate in the service. Thus I got an early look at Google's new social network.
Google has stressed that Google+ is in its early stages. However, whatever Google was aiming for with its "field trial" must have been successful, because as everyone who was invited in to the service is now able to invite other people in.
Even the second wave of invitees was able to invite friends to join the service.
All this attention must have been a bit more than Google bargained for. After about six hours, the company shut the invitation process down over what Google's senior vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, called "insane demand."
"We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way," he posted to his Google+ page late Wednesday night. He did not specify when the invite functionality would return.
Google has stressed that Google+ is in its early stages. However, whatever Google was aiming for with its "field trial" must have been successful, because as everyone who was invited in to the service is now able to invite other people in.
Even the second wave of invitees was able to invite friends to join the service.
All this attention must have been a bit more than Google bargained for. After about six hours, the company shut the invitation process down over what Google's senior vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, called "insane demand."
"We need to do this carefully, and in a controlled way," he posted to his Google+ page late Wednesday night. He did not specify when the invite functionality would return.
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