Intro to Google Plus with David Stagg

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Google should have named it BBM. Anyone who has copyright on that trademark is too broke to sue.
Reply · 54 · · September 20 at 3:17pm

Alexander Burgos Collazo · Top Commenter · Binghamton, New York
Oh! I see what you did there.
Reply · 4 · · September 20 at 3:29pm

Mike Tuton
Big Beautiful Messenger?
Reply · 15 · · September 20 at 3:37pm

Vincent Chow · Freelance writer at Dice
GGM for the same effect, plus the guarantee of not being sued.
Reply · · September 21 at 4:01am

James Lincoln · Los Angeles, California
Genius. Eliminate silly lawsuits and focus on the product.
Reply · 7 · · September 20 at 3:14pm

David Wang · Top Commenter · University Of India
people obvious dont know that google stole this idea from someone. google does not innovate it steals
Reply · · September 20 at 3:23pm

Micah A Círrí · Works at AT&T
David Wang And I'm sure it stole its Search technology from someone else as well. You reek of debilitating ignorance. I would give you credit if at least you came up with an original criticism--even while inane--instead of parroting a tired and factually bankrupt statement you heard some other idiot make.
Reply · 5 · · September 20 at 3:59pm

David Wang · Top Commenter · University Of India
Micah A Círrí what makes u say i was parroting a statement made by someone else?
Reply · · September 20 at 4:12pm
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Nathan J. Brauer · Top Commenter · Lincoln, California
Always thought it should be Messenger -- it's an old and well understood term and people understand it immediately. "What is Google Huddle?" exists, "What is Google Messanger" will exist less.
Reply · 3 · · September 20 at 4:37pm

Mike Garcia · Windermere, Florida
Having "Messenger" isn't an infringement on Facebook's territory - the G+ Messenger is built-in to the app! ohhhhhhh, eat it.... haha
Reply · 3 · · September 20 at 3:16pm

Logan Flatt · Dallas, Texas
They should have named it Quikster.
Reply · 2 · · September 20 at 6:10pm

Matthew Lowery · Top Commenter
Generic name is generic.
Reply · 2 · · September 20 at 3:12pm

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
Old meme is old.
Reply · 9 · · September 20 at 3:13pm

Max Woolf · Top Commenter · Carnegie Mellon University
(Yes, I realize the hypocrisy. DEAL WITH IT.)
Reply · 5 · · September 20 at 3:18pm

David Abraham · Top Commenter · Works at DFMedia Studios
Messenger is the best name. Huddle would not have taken off anyway. Now if they could just rename Google Checkout "Google Payments" that product may stand a chance.
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 9:16pm

Aaron Albright
Bull crap. It's only available to 18+ why does Google lock out the demographic that could potentially end up using it the most? I don't get it...
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 6:12pm

Owen Short · Top Commenter
Facebook restricts access to age groups as well. So you just re-apply and lie.

But given Google is pretty sure i was born on the 1st of January 1900 ish, does it matter?

I think the policy is silly, but i dont think its a problem.
Reply · 1 · · September 21 at 12:19am

Joe Ross · Temple
Search, Marketing, Social. They should call it SMS. That's a safe bet.
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 10:52pm

Jeremy Blake · Top Commenter
Google+ is still around?
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 4:10pm

Erwin Ocampo · S.F. State
Why not Google+ a/s/l?
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 3:58pm

Donat Moloney · University of Limerick
I did a quick thesaurus of "Huddle" - I get group, cluster, crowd etc.
I like "Cluster". You see messenger implies 1 to 1 communication. Hence Google wanting to use Huddle, it conveys the many to many ability of the G+ messenger...
Reply · · September 26 at 3:44am

Erik Bates · CSR I at Citizens' Service Bureau
Now you can move 10 of the 24mb of the application to the SD card, which still leaves 14 bloated MB on your internal storage. What the hell makes this thing so big? Even Facebook doesn't take up that much space!
Reply · · September 21 at 10:59am

Ravikiran R · Top Commenter · Product Manager at AccuWeather
Didn't Apple just go ahead with iPad despite Cisco's (or someone's) same named product? Just saying. Having said that, I would still have preferred a good name.
Reply · · September 20 at 5:16pm

Benjamin Dyer · East Cowes, Isle Of Wight, United Kingdom
McLoughlin should be thanking his lucky stars, I'll imagine Huddle received record traffic.
Reply · · September 20 at 11:42pm

Vadim Berman · Top Commenter
I recall MSFT forcing Windows Commander to change its name to Total Commander. I wonder if they will give Google a free pass here.
Reply · · September 20 at 4:24pm

Andy Norris · Top Commenter · Redmond, Washington
AIM predates Yahoo Messenger and MSN/Windows/Live Messenger which predate Facebook
Messenger. If someone were going to sue over "Messenger" it needed to happen a long, long time ago.
Reply · 1 · · September 21 at 9:35am

Vadim Berman · Top Commenter
@ Andy Norris: makes sense.
Reply · · September 21 at 3:43pm

Farlin Paulino Sanz · Top Commenter · Supervisor at IADIS
Next: Google changes its Intant Mixes feature name to Genius. More at 11.
Reply · · September 21 at 11:30am

Abiel Abuy · Top Commenter
Looks like they're playing safe... why not just rename it to Google+ Messenger?
Reply · · September 20 at 3:14pm

Michael Ojeda · Atascadero, California
Messenger+, there problem solved.
Reply · · September 21 at 12:54am

Levi John Wolf · Arizona State University
Google Hudlester?
Reply · · September 20 at 5:23pm

Lisa Demmi · Chief Creative Thinker at Cake-sweet promotional concepts
So creative…
Reply · · September 20 at 3:53pm

Doug Chavez · Vice President at RadiumOne, Inc.
Ping Me is a better name but that name was already taken by PingMe Messenger. http://pingme.net/ a pretty slick real-time messaging app for iPhone and Android devices.
Reply · · September 20 at 4:08pm

Matt Huggins · Front End Developer at Food on the Table
Terrible attempt at disguising an ad as a comment.
Reply · 8 · · September 20 at 5:31pm

Doug Chavez · Vice President at RadiumOne, Inc.
Matt Huggins , not an ad. Just a statement of fact. (perhaps a shameless self promotion but accurate)
Reply · · September 20 at 5:42pm

Adam Chambers · Accenture
Shameful Mr Chavez, but amusing!
Reply · 1 · · September 20 at 7:54pm