new Google Cloud Platform Developers Google+ page

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Amy Unruh

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Sep 2, 2012, 6:12:20 PM9/2/12
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The Cloud Platform Developer Relations team, which includes App Engine, now has a "Google Cloud Platform Developers" Google+ page!

This is a good way to track news and events, including our Hangout/office hours times, interesting articles and codelabs, etc.
It's also a good way to see what's going on with related Google technologies, such as BigQuery and Google Cloud Storage.

 -Amy

Drake

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Sep 2, 2012, 8:14:49 PM9/2/12
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No offense I’m sure it is awesome… But don’t you think y’all are a little scattered? 
I mean there is the discussion pages/forum, Stack Over Flow, 4 issues bug trackers, a support form, 6 blogs.

 

That’s before I point out that Google Plus rules say you have to be a person, so google is using its own products in ways that conflict with their own usage policies?

 

I’m glad you want to be reachable… But I’d rather have one place where I know I can get an answer than 40, and some of those being pages with nonsensical URLs that are impossible to remember and don’t appear in search.

 

 

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Nickolas Daskalou

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Sep 2, 2012, 10:25:10 PM9/2/12
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+1, well said Drake.

Nick

aswath satrasala

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Sep 2, 2012, 11:43:39 PM9/2/12
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+1 for Drake.

-Aswath

Peter Ondruška

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+1
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Aza Tek

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Sep 3, 2012, 2:33:04 AM9/3/12
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+1 Drake is star

Amy Unruh

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Sep 3, 2012, 3:12:57 AM9/3/12
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We appreciate everyone's input, as always. :)
The Google+ page is geared towards posting of news, announcements (including Hangout announcements), and pointers to articles, blog posts, etc.; rather than Stack Overflow-type support or issue tracking.
Its topics encompass the larger Google Cloud Platform, not just App Engine.


On 3 September 2012 10:14, Drake <dra...@digerat.com> wrote:

Barry Hunter

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Sep 3, 2012, 7:09:11 AM9/3/12
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On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Drake <dra...@digerat.com> wrote:

No offense I’m sure it is awesome… But don’t you think y’all are a little scattered? 
I mean there is the discussion pages/forum, Stack Over Flow, 4 issues bug trackers, a support form, 6 blogs.

 

That’s before I point out that Google Plus rules say you have to be a person, so google is using its own products in ways that conflict with their own usage policies?


Thats old. No longer applies. 

Drake

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Sep 3, 2012, 12:25:27 PM9/3/12
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Stick to a blog. Give it a friendly URL. Have an RSS feed.

 

The fact that it is multiple products makes it even less appealing to friend.  You are asking us to “Friend” a group of products that could expand to products we don’t use, may never use and have our information shared with those product groups.  This raises the signal to noise ratio, hurts our personal privacy, and is generally not a happy thing.

 

Do it right. Post hang out announcements to the Lists for the products, Let people subscribe to you on Youtube. Air the hangouts on Youtube, moderate the questions and answers there, (and the hangout and the IRC and the twitter, and the….. )  Are you seeing why this is a convoluted mess?  To get support I now have to be on 10 platforms and track you on each to know when I can get support.

 

More support in more places = Less support that is harder to find, track, and respond to.

 

When there was one place for each product support was good. It has gone downhill every time a new thing was added.

 

 

Levi Campbell

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Sep 4, 2012, 2:58:24 PM9/4/12
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A Google+ page that has Google Cloud Platform downtime notifications and other useful notifications would be far more useful.

pdknsk

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Sep 4, 2012, 4:36:49 PM9/4/12
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pdknsk

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Sep 4, 2012, 4:46:07 PM9/4/12
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Amazon has this monthly newsletter, which includes the most important
news and announcements of the past month. If Google has sth. similar,
I'd like to subscribe to it.

http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/newsletters/

I've been trying to subscribe to new SDK releases and starred this
page hoping for emails, but no such luck.

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/wiki/SdkReleaseNotes
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