how is huddle different than me texting out to a group of people?
how is huddle different than me texting out to a group of people?
Huddle is actually nothing like texting people at all. It's basically a chat room.
Google+ app feels more polished and quicker than the Facebook app.
Google+ app feels more polished and quicker than the Facebook app.
that's what I thought, then I read somewhere that they are SMSing people.
I think this clears it up: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=1304781
For the non-plus users, you just keep getting a string of SMSes of everyone. interesting.
ok, now this makes more sense, heh. if they can cross platform this across gchat, that'd be awesome...
Huddles are a cool concept...merging group chat and sms. However, at the moment, Google+ is sorely lacking a standard messaging function...if someone hadn't sent me a Huddle, I wouldn't have even known the feature existed. It almost feels like its a completely separate service that barely even belongs associated with G+.
The app is nice though. Much like their website equivalents, it feels much faster than thw Facebook app. I wonder if they'll incorporate video chat/hangouts?
there's a huddle icon right on the front page of the google + app....
Where is it on the website? At that point, I hadn't used the app, just the site - and I got an email saying I received a Huddle. I was very confused, seeing as there is no mention of this on the site. That's my point - they're a social network that lacks basic messaging. Sure, there's Huddles....only on mobile. Or you can create a post that's only visible to one person, but that's horrifically unintuitive.
Google+ is absolutely awesome. It's like combining the best of Facebook, twitter, and Tumblr with a dash of Google services
except you know, the people.