[asterisk-users] OT: Google Plus

[Gordon Henderson]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2011, Steve Davies wrote:

> On 9 July 2011 12:34, randulo <randulo at randulo.com> wrote:
>> Go ahead and lambast me for this post, it isn't specific to Asterisk, but:
>>
>> G+ has only been open at all for a week and I already am chatting with
>> over 200 people who are into VoIP, Asterisk and all the rest of the
>> stuff we here care about. If you don't care or are anti-social, fine.
>> But you owe it to yourself to check it, because a lot of cool VoIP
>> people are there and after all, Google themselves  are doing some
>> great stuff with VoIP, XMPP and video, and steadily moving towards
>> open source. Come drink the Kool-Aid!
>>
>
> Can you suggest a good way of finding/following appropriate
> VoIP/Asterisk people once on Google+? How do you then group them? Just
> in a Circle, or some other mechanism?

I've just created a "VoIPy" circle - So I can then invite people I know 
into the circle by email address, and/or looking at someone else's 
circles and seing if they have something relevant in their summary tag and 
adding them into your own circle... (Or using their people search - 
e.g. for 'randulo' :)

You can have people in more than one circle. Right now, it's a bit like a 
media-rich version of twitter with excellent filtering (the circles). I 
don't have camera/microphone/speakers on my PC, (got real desk SIP 
phones!) so haven't tried the audio/video chat yet, but the typing 
"instant messaging" type chat works just fine.

I think Google are still slowly gating people into + though. I did have 
some invites, but seem to have used them all up now (google didn't tell me 
how many, the "invite" button just went away after a while!)

I'd love to see SIP integration into it, so I can use my existing SIP toys 
with it.

Gordon