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That's interesting. I like Google+, but none of my friends use it. Inviting them to events would be one way of getting them started. Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone.


> Would be even better if I could invite people without Google accounts by e-mail, to make it generally usable for everyone.

You can do this now. Just type in an email address in the field where you add people/circles. The user who receives the invite can set his availability-status without having a + account. Anything else (posting, commenting, adding photos etc.) requires an account though.


Anything else (posting, commenting, adding photos etc.) requires an account though.

For now. Google's patent on "ghost profiles"[1] is probably intended to fix that.

[1]: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=_FULAgAAEBAJ&dq=s...


That's great! I'm trying this now. Hopefully Google isn't too clever here, though... I know that of the people I e-mailed use Google Apps, so perhaps Google detects that it's an Google Apps address and enforces Google+ account creation.




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