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[AstroLad]

Hmm my photos from my phone are automatically uploading onto google+ lol

Was wondering why all these pictures I just took today were on that.

yep--

Share photos with Instant Upload Share Comment
Automatically upload your photos and videos as you take them using Instant Upload. Instant Upload uploads photos and videos you take with your phone to a private album on Google+, where it's easy for you to share them later from your phone or the web.

Instant Upload is only available for Android devices (2.1+) with the Google+ app installed.

Watch a video about Instant Upload
Enable Instant Upload

Press Menu.
Select Settings > Instant Upload from the Google+ Home screen.
Select Enable Instant Upload.
Once you've enabled Instant Upload, all photos taken with your phone will appear in the From My Phone album. These photos are only visible to you until you post them.

Post photos to the Stream

Touch Photos from the Google+ Home screen.
Select the From my Phone album.
Select one or more photos to post.
Touch Post.
Add a comment or attach a location.
Modify your sharing settings as needed.
Touch Post.
Learn about your Instant Upload settings.

Unlimited photo and video uploads

As a Google+ user, you get the following:

Unlimited photo uploads. Photos larger than 2,048 by 2,048 pixels will automatically be resized when uploading.
Unlimited video uploads (up to 15 minutes per video, up to 1080p)

 

[kehs]

I swear to Google, you're using a different G+ than I am. I've met dozens of random people, and have actually had really fun (and sometimes infuriating) conversations with them. Shit is awesome. Certainly better than Facebook in the area of random connections + discoveries.

Korey never answered me if he has even used it.

 

[Corran Horn]

yep--

That could be dangerous for some people lol


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*cough* i took pictures of my cat :/

 

[eznark]

I hope the auto phone photo uploading thing will be included in the ios app.

 

[AstroLad]

That could be dangerous for some people lol


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*cough* i took pictures of my cat :/

heh not so much since you have to actively post them. they just upload to your private space

 

[Corran Horn]

heh not so much since you have to actively post them. they just upload to your private space

ahh lol

 

[RoadHazard]

I swear to Google, you're using a different G+ than I am. I've met dozens of random people, and have actually had really fun (and sometimes infuriating) conversations with them. Shit is awesome. Certainly better than Facebook in the area of random connections + discoveries.

Yep. I'm reading loads of interesting stuff from people I don't know every day on Google+, and also talking to people reading the same stuff. The simple fact that you can "follow" people in pretty much the same way you do on Twitter makes it a great tool for discovery.

 

[sixteen-bit]

avoid taking pics of your junk guys

 

[RoadHazard]

I hope the auto phone photo uploading thing will be included in the ios app.

I don't believe it will. I don't remember where I read it, but supposedly Apple is very unlikely to allow Google to do that, probably because they have their own "Photo Stream" (which syncs photos between different Apple devices) coming up as a part of iCloud.

avoid taking pics of your junk guys

Nah, that's fine! As has already been stated, instant uploads end up in a private album on Google+. Nobody else can see them until you actively share them.

 

[Kosmo]

"Before the internet" you probably lost contact with nearly everyone you went to school with the moment you graduated. I don't even want to think of what life was like before cell phones

It was wonderful. You actually went about your business without the hassle of always being a phone call away from someone disturbing you. The only meaningful thing cell phones have added is some safety and the ability for a family member to get in contact if they are in trouble. Aside from that, they have mostly added annoyance and done little but remove the more social aspects of life, you know, like talking to people.

 

[eznark]

I don't believe it will. I don't remember where I read it, but supposedly Apple is very unlikely to allow Google to do that, probably because they have their own "Photo Stream" (which syncs photos between different Apple devices) coming up as a part of iCloud.

I'm sure jailbreaking will fix that. I'm actually waiting for the new phone to upgrade, if this takes off I would definitely consider sticking with Android.

 

[Corran Horn]

Nah, that's fine! As has already been stated, instant uploads end up in a private album on Google+. Nobody else can see them until you actively share them.

But then you get a surprise look at your junk the next time you login! lol

 

[Baconbitz]

I don't see the invite thing on my page.

 

[travisbickle]

That's not what I'm saying you should do. I'm saying that if you're already looking at a person's profile page and you decide that you want to share something with just him/her, it would be convenient to have a link to automatically do that.

There's a share button in the top right corner of the "Google Bar", you can type the person's name in there and share.

 

[RoadHazard]

But then you get a surprise look at your junk the next time you login! lol

He who photographs his own junk shall be made to gaze upon it.

There's a share button in the top right corner of the "Google Bar", you can type the person's name in there and share.

Yes, but if that link was there I wouldn't have to click up there, type the name in, and select it to be added. Instead, it would just take a single click. Just a slightly more convenient way of sending a "private message".

 

[Kosmo]

I hope the auto phone photo uploading thing will be included in the ios app.

I believe I read it was. The photos are uploaded to a private folder, so I see not reason why that would be diffent than any other app with online storage like Flickr or Instagram.

 

[gcubed]

I believe I read it was. The photos are uploaded to a private folder, so I see not reason why that would be diffent than any other app with online storage like Flickr or Instagram.

its apple. They are offering an auto upload on icloud, i would be pretty comfortable in saying that it won't happen.

 

[Dice]

You can read more about it here. It doesn't bother me now, as the service has only the people i care the most... But when everybody gets in, it will get ugly very soon.

I think it would be fine if there was a separate stream for extended people that you could check if you ever wanted to glace at that. Otherwise it could be annoying as Twitter retweets you don't give a shit about appearing as those people rather than from the person you follow who retweeted it. I really don't need random people I don't know pushing into the area where I check in on content from the people I do know.

 

[RoadHazard]

I believe I read it was. The photos are uploaded to a private folder, so I see not reason why that would be diffent than any other app with online storage like Flickr or Instagram.

Are photos instantly uploaded to those services even when you take them using your phone's regular camera app? We're not talking about going through an app to do it, nor about choosing to share your photo to some service after you've taken it, but about the upload happening instantly and invisibly in the background as soon as you take a photo with your phone. That's what Instant Upload does.

 

[SimleuqiR]

Say it ain't so!

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/69826938/

Soghoian was approached by Burson-Marsteller, asking him to write about a product called Google Social Circles, exploring whether it violates user privacy. Soghoian speaks with Cory Johnson on Bloomberg Television's

 

[gcubed]

Say it ain't so!

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/69826938/

this is back when Facebook got caught red handed right? This isn't new. Children running companies...

 

[Bboy AJ]

I'm sure jailbreaking will fix that. I'm actually waiting for the new phone to upgrade, if this takes off I would definitely consider sticking with Android.

Yep. I really want to go back to an iPhone because of app quality but Google stuff is just so well integrated into my phone. It's such a nice feeling.

 

[SimleuqiR]

this is back when Facebook got caught red handed right? This isn't new. Children running companies...

I know...but now we see what circles is all about.

 

[gcubed]

I know...but now we see what circles is all about.

Facebook felt the need to pre-emptively smear it. I wonder if they hired korey?

 

[Terrell]

its apple. They are offering an auto upload on icloud, i would be pretty comfortable in saying that it won't happen.

This is like saying they're taking out support for Google Contacts because it duplicates iCloud functionality.

Seriously, guys, this is ridiculous.

 

[JORMBO]

I like how it puts a "+1" button next to everything I search for using Google. Wonder how many times I'm going to accidentally +1 a porn site to my G+ page

 

[Poigea]

So I finally got in, yay (profile for any one who wants to add me, I am pretty boring...).Who should I be following?

 

[gcubed]

This is like saying they're taking out support for Google Contacts because it duplicates iCloud functionality.

Seriously, guys, this is ridiculous.

Not really. This is taking a hardware function and allowing a duplicate automatic upload. Anyway would love to be proven wrong, I just don't see it. Sure auto upload if you go through the app, but not directly from taking a picture with the built in camera app.

 

[travisbickle]

Yes, but if that link was there I wouldn't have to click up there, type the name in, and select it to be added. Instead, it would just take a single click. Just a slightly more convenient way of sending a "private message".

With your method you have to click to the individuals profile before sending them a private message with mine you don't, 6 of one half a dozen of the other. Set up a stream with that individual and you get the best of both.

For me, Google+ has it the right way because I can direct my information to particular people. I have moved to a different country this year and married my fiancee. Think about all the different information you give your male friends, female friends, bridesmaids, stag-group, family (close and distant), close friends, old school friends, work colleagues, walking group buddies etc... about your wedding, or about your new life in a different country. I've ended up telling people as little information as possible because I didn't want everyone knowing the everything about it, partly my fault but it would have been easier with Google+.

 

[mollipen]

I like how it puts a "+1" button next to everything I search for using Google. Wonder how many times I'm going to accidentally +1 a porn site to my G+ page

The big problem I have with this is that the +1 feature is there BEFORE I visit the site or link. Gee, that's useful.

I read that Google is putting together a +1 plug-in for Chrome, where you could just hit a little button on whatever site you're looking at. At that point, +1 starts to have some use. However, I'm a little torn if G+ should then put that +1 into your feed, or just keep it contained to your +1 section.

 

[Terrell]

I agree with this. One of Facebook's best 'features' is the wall. It is meant to be a bulletin board of communication.

Until someone removes their profile, and everything you share with them is lost to the aether. This is the reason I think Google chose to keep all posts in your stream, so even if those people delete their profiles, you still have the content you shared with them. Because it's your content.

Not really. This is taking a hardware function and allowing a duplicate automatic upload. Anyway would love to be proven wrong, I just don't see it. Sure auto upload if you go through the app, but not directly from taking a picture with the built in camera app.

It's a software function, actually. If it were hardware, we'd need new iPhones and iPads to use it. But that's just arguing semantics.

And you can never be too sure what Apple will and will not agree to. After all, iCloud is primarily a service to sync devices together; access to the uploaded content in the cloud was a brief "oh yeah, BTW" footnote. Until Apple has a social media service, Google offers functions that are completely not present in their ecosystem.

They may also decide to integrate G+ like they did with Twitter, to keep pace with Android's ability to do so and, well, to stick it to Facebook as payback for Facebook trying to flex its muscles against Apple.

Google and Apple have a mutual enemy in Facebook, a company that thinks that it owns not only their users' content, but by locking in its users, thinks it owns the internet as a whole. No one wants that, ESPECIALLY Apple and Google.

Look at it this way... G+ integrated into iOS, Ping integrated into G+... win-win.

 

[Dice]

Say it ain't so!

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/69826938/

Maybe it was actually Google using Willy Wonka tactics and now that guy is hired for a special position when Google becomes our new overlords.

 

[Monkeylord]

I read that Google is putting together a +1 plug-in for Chrome, where you could just hit a little button on whatever site you're looking at. At that point, +1 starts to have some use. However, I'm a little torn if G+ should then put that +1 into your feed, or just keep it contained to your +1 section.

There's one already out in the wild. I use it myself. I'll have to hunt for the link though.

 

[gcubed]

Until someone removes their profile, and everything you share with them is lost to the aether. This is the reason I think Google chose to keep all posts in your stream, so even if those people delete their profiles, you still have the content you shared with them. Because it's your content.


It's a software function, actually. If it were hardware, we'd need new iPhones and iPads to use it. But that's just arguing semantics.

And you can never be too sure what Apple will and will not agree to. After all, iCloud is primarily a service to sync devices together; access to the uploaded content in the cloud was a brief "oh yeah, BTW" footnote. Until Apple has a social media service, Google offers functions that are completely not present in their ecosystem.

They may also decide to integrate G+ like they did with Twitter, to keep pace with Android's ability to do so and, well, to stick it to Facebook as payback for Facebook trying to flex its muscles against Apple.

Google and Apple have a mutual enemy in Facebook, a company that thinks that it owns not only their users' content, but by locking in its users, thinks it owns the internet as a whole. No one wants that, ESPECIALLY Apple and Google.

Look at it this way... G+ integrated into iOS, Ping integrated into G+... win-win.

ive never had the chance to use ping so i dont know how it works, etc so i can't comment on it. Hey, i'd love for it to work, all i'll say is i'm not anticipating it.

 

[GhostRidah]

Can someone clear this up, do I get unlimited storage on my picasa account even if I don't upload to my google plus stream? Or is it only unlimited for whatever pics I upload through my google+ stream? Hope that is not confusing lol

 

[RoadHazard]

With your method you have to click to the individuals profile before sending them a private message with mine you don't, 6 of one half a dozen of the other. Set up a stream with that individual and you get the best of both.

No, you would not have to do that. I'm not talking about removing anything, just about adding a small feature to make this process faster if you're already on the person's profile page. Please read my full posts before answering them.

And you can never be too sure what Apple will and will not agree to. After all, iCloud is primarily a service to sync devices together; access to the uploaded content in the cloud was a brief "oh yeah, BTW" footnote. Until Apple has a social media service, Google offers functions that are completely not present in their ecosystem.

They may also decide to integrate G+ like they did with Twitter, to keep pace with Android's ability to do so and, well, to stick it to Facebook as payback for Facebook trying to flex its muscles against Apple.

Google and Apple have a mutual enemy in Facebook, a company that thinks that it owns not only their users' content, but by locking in its users, thinks it owns the internet as a whole. No one wants that, ESPECIALLY Apple and Google.

Look at it this way... G+ integrated into iOS, Ping integrated into G+... win-win.

Yeah... I'm not too sure Apple is gonna want to support Google - their #1 competitor in the mobile space - in that fashion.

Can someone clear this up, do I get unlimited storage on my picasa account even if I don't upload to my google plus stream? Or is it only unlimited for whatever pics I upload through my google+ stream? Hope that is not confusing lol

Ok, here's how it works:

- Any photo uploaded to Picasa (through Picasa itself or Google+) that's no taller or wider than 2048 pixels does not count toward your free storage (which is 1GB if you don't buy more).
- Photos uploaded through Google+ are automatically downscaled if they are taller or wider than 2048 pixels, so they will never count toward your free storage.
- Photos uploaded through Picasa are not automatically downscaled, as long as you have space available. So, here you can upload photos that do count toward your free storage.
- However, if your free storage is all filled up, Picasa too will downsize any uploaded photos that are larger than 2048 pixels (and these won't count). Thus, you won't ever be prevented from uploading a new photo.

So, in essence: Yes, you have unlimited photo storage no matter how you upload your photos. You can only save photos that are larger than 2048 pixels through Picasa (Google+ will downsize them even if you do have space available), and only while you still have space available. After that, they'll be downsized.

 

[GhostRidah]

Thanks man, makes sense now.

 

[kkaabboomm]

Ok, here's how it works:

- Any photo uploaded to Picasa (through Picasa itself or Google+) that's no taller or wider than 2048 pixels does not count toward your free storage (which is 1GB if you don't buy more).
- Photos uploaded through Google+ are automatically downscaled if they are taller or wider than 2048 pixels, so they will never count toward your free storage.
- Photos uploaded through Picasa are not automatically downscaled, as long as you have space available. So, here you can upload photos that do count toward your free storage.
- However, if your free storage is all filled up, Picasa too will downsize any uploaded photos that are larger than 2048 pixels (and these won't count). Thus, you won't ever be prevented from uploading a new photo.

So, in essence: Yes, you have unlimited photo storage no matter how you upload your photos. You can only save photos that are larger than 2048 pixels through Picasa (Google+ will downsize them even if you do have space available), and only while you still have space available. After that, they'll be downsized.

remember the photo bug in g+! photo's uploaded through g+ will only automatically downsize to 2048 if uploaded into and during the creation of a new album. photos added to albums will not be downsized. this is a bug and will be fixed eventually.

 

[The Abominable Snowman]

So I have a G+, but i'm unsure how I'll use it... So I'll just make it a outlet for my geek tendencies.

I use Twitter for my raw guttural rants and opinions and Facebook for family contact and inspirational quotes. There really isn't much more to me than that.

 

[scorcho]

Because every interaction with your friends has to be serious or deeply thought out right? There's no room in this world for a quick, casual hello or chit chat!!!!!

g+ has neutered our ability to send texts, emails or make quick phone calls? DAMN YOU GOOGLE!!

 

[RoadHazard]

remember the photo bug in g+! photo's uploaded through g+ will only automatically downsize to 2048 if uploaded into and during the creation of a new album. photos added to albums will not be downsized. this is a bug and will be fixed eventually.

Yeah, there's also that... Ok, so what I described is how it's supposed to work! The bug doesn't change the fact that you can upload an unlimited number of photos though, it just means that your free space will fill up faster (after which you can't upload anything larger than 2048*2048 without having it downsized, even through Picasa).

I use Twitter for my raw guttural rants and opinions and Facebook for family contact and inspirational quotes. There really isn't much more to me than that.

You can easily use G+ for both, without mixing them. You can make sure that some people only see your Twitter-esque posts, while others can see your more personal stuff. That's part of the beauty of it.

 

[eznark]

You can easily use G+ for both, without mixing them. You can make sure that some people only see your Twitter-esque posts, while others can see your more personal stuff. That's part of the beauty of it.

Ya, that's what I am liking about it, theoretically. I don't have enough real friends on there to do the semi-private posts yet.

 

[CrankyJay]

I already like this better than Facebook.

 

[planar1280]

So I have a G+, but i'm unsure how I'll use it... So I'll just make it a outlet for my geek tendencies.

I use Twitter for my raw guttural rants and opinions and Facebook for family contact and inspirational quotes. There really isn't much more to me than that.

what is your uid on g+

 

[gcubed]

Ya, that's what I am liking about it, theoretically. I don't have enough real friends on there to do the semi-private posts yet.

thats also where i can see this being its strong point and what makes it successful. They need a few more tweaks here and there, but it definitely has the underpinnings of being a facebook/twitter combo

 

[planar1280]

Where the hell did this thing pull photos from? I had an album already uploaded from somewhere after I signed up and I'm not even sure where it came from. Wouldn't mind but I do model photography and it grabbed a folder filled with naked girls which I'm sure isn't allowed...

Picasa Web Albums and Google+

When you sign up for Google+, you'll see all of your Picasa Web albums on your Google+ photos homepage. Click an album to view it, share photos, or edit your album visibility. Picasa Web Albums and Google+ are connected in several ways:

Share in Google+: Post to Google+ circles - like 'Family,' 'Work friends,' or 'Book club' - directly from Picasa Web Albums. Creating circles lets you easily share with the right group of people at the right time.
Name tags are better with friends: Your friends can now add name tags to your photos from Google+. The person tagged will receive an email to approve the tag and see the album they were tagged in. Learn more
Photos make great conversation: Comments on photos are shared across Picasa Web Albums and Google+.
More free storage: Google+ provides free storage for your photos, which are automatically resized to 2048 pixels. Like Picasa Web, video uploads 15 minutes or shorter are free.
Showcase the real you: Picasa Web Albums and Google+ link to your Google profile make it easier for people to find the photos you’ve shared with them.
Album privacy: Your albums' visibility settings aren't changed, but people they're shared with can now share them with others.

http://picasa.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en_US&answer=1321133

 

[Dice]

Dang, before they open up G+ they need to make a really blatant notification of that fact and let people set the privacy settings of albums before they go live on their G+ account.

 

[eznark]

Dang, before they open up G+ they need to make a really blatant notification of that fact and let people set the privacy settings of albums before they go live on their G+ account.

By default they are private and not shared with anyone. What's the issue?

 

[JackEtc]

A good site for shortening your username to share with others:

http://plus.ly/

 

[eznark]

A good site for shortening your username to share with others:

http://plus.ly/

very cool.