Google+ and the Slow Boat to Scale
July 6, 2011 No CommentsGoogle typically isn’t ashamed to put products out into the world before they’ve had a chance to get fully dressed. “Beta” is no dirty word at the Googleplex. So why did the company become so stingy with its Google+ invitations so soon after the service launched last week? Perhaps that’s because in the realm of social networking, Google’s been hurt before. Remember Buzz?