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	<title>Comments on: Google Circles and what it Doesn&#8217;t Mean for You</title>
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		<title>By: Rmtiii</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-124437</link>
		<dc:creator>Rmtiii</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am more interested in what a start-up like goskoop is doing...kinda interesting]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am more interested in what a start-up like goskoop is doing&#8230;kinda interesting</p>
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		<title>By: Anyone else?</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-121731</link>
		<dc:creator>Anyone else?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like I&#039;m one of the only ones who doesn&#039;t care about Google Circles in a positive way. It sounds stupid. ]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I feel like I&#8217;m one of the only ones who doesn&#8217;t care about Google Circles in a positive way. It sounds stupid. </p>
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		<title>By: Circled Space</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-121718</link>
		<dc:creator>Circled Space</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Circles Crushed A Family’s Dream

While Google + team are excited and happy of the outcome of the reviews and responses about the beta version release of Google +,   a family is heartbroken  of the loss of their dream.

It is claimed that an entrepreneur had an idea of a social networking website based on the concept that a user can create and manage groups of friends.   Groups may be created based on groups like family,   online friends or groups based on interests of the user such as swimming,  writing, basketball  and so on.   He wanted to enable the users to communicate to other users with the same interests and he would  provide privacy tools that a friend in a certain group may not have access to messages, notifications, friends, photos, videos of different groups.    Let’s say, a message is meant to be sent to the group Family,  that message will not be received by the friends of group Online Friends. Also, friends in the group Online Friends will not be able to view the user’s family pictures and videos unless explicitly granted by the user.   His vision was to create a social networking site for people who do not like Facebook’s and Myspace’s  single pile of friends and lack of privacy tools.  

The concept of groups to him is not new as he had this idea in mind way back when he purchased  an invite domain name http://www.clicktorsvp.com in 2004.  He had this concept of sending invitations to different sets of groups by creating and managing groups of invitees.   While thinking of a matching domain name for the group social networking site,  he kept looking for funding which will include the patent expenses for the group social networking website.   In order for him to hide this idea from investors,  he instead disclosed the idea of  his local search website named http://www.switchlocal.com but told the  prospective  investors that  part of the funding will be used for patent expenses of a new generation of social networking website and the investors will also co-own it  without telling them the actual concept as it may get stolen.   Unfortunately,  he was not able to secure any funding.   The breakthrough could have happened when a friend was about to pour-in some minimal funding but backed-out later on.   

  
He started researching on how to create a patent by himself as he did not have any funds available to hire a patent lawyer.   Having 2 to 3 hours of sleep every night,  having some recurring medical symptoms, working full-time, running a family by himself and adding the burden of a writing a patent took a significant toll to his health.   He was rushed to  emergency room in January 2009 and medical bills piled up .   Even when  he was paying minimal payments every month, the hospital  ruined his credit that caused banks to close his credit cards which made it much  more impossible to get patent money.   
 
While recovering from an undiagnosed  medical condition,   he went back to work in his full-time job,  he  postponed writing the patent and stopped the development of an almost finished switchlocal.com website.
Still, he did not give up his hope and kept dreaming that someday he may start his group social networking website.    He did not doubt  that he could accomplish it because in 2006, he successfully completed  a cake website named http://www.cakeamerica.com without any  external funding.   (He did not make  money out of it because he did quit the idea of charging the cake businesses when he learned some of them were struggling single-parents running their home businesses).

It was in 2010 that he came up with the matching name for the group social networking website.   It is  http://www.circledspace.com -- circles would represent the groups and the space in the name is  to indicate it is a social networking website such as http://www.myspace.com .   He was so excited when he got that name, he told his kids that even if they could not secure any  funding,  the three of them will make this happen.   His son, 13 years old,  will take care of the CSS and some minor Javascript coding and  his daughter, 11 years old, will take care of the design images and him will take care of the actual programming.   He told his kids that circledspace.com will be the means of securing funds for their college education.    The family used to talk about the plan and this dream but they realized the mounting task ahead of them.   It was planned that they will start developing circledspaced.com in summer of 2011.

Then, the heart-breaking news broke out on June 28th  2011 - the beta version  of Google + was released.

“On Tuesday,  when I  saw the news about Google + Circles,  I was shocked,  I felt a sudden weakening of my body,  my eyes became teary,   and I just murmured ,  my family just lost a dream.   Google + Circles is 100% the same as my concept of circledspace.com.    Since that day until now I am having difficulty sleeping.    I had that idea for years.   I thought my family could have hit a home run but a very big powerful competitor ran over us.“  said the entrepreneur in Comstock Park, Michigan. 

He took a deep breath and furthermore said. “One day,  my Lord Jesus will  let my family hit a home run too.   All I desire is to secure the college education of my children.    If Manny Pacquiao could emerge as a world boxing champion in spite of all the hardships  and obstacles he faced,   I believe one day my family will eventually emerge a winner too. ”
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Google Circles Crushed A Family’s Dream</p>
<p>While Google + team are excited and happy of the outcome of the reviews and responses about the beta version release of Google +,   a family is heartbroken  of the loss of their dream.</p>
<p>It is claimed that an entrepreneur had an idea of a social networking website based on the concept that a user can create and manage groups of friends.   Groups may be created based on groups like family,   online friends or groups based on interests of the user such as swimming,  writing, basketball  and so on.   He wanted to enable the users to communicate to other users with the same interests and he would  provide privacy tools that a friend in a certain group may not have access to messages, notifications, friends, photos, videos of different groups.    Let’s say, a message is meant to be sent to the group Family,  that message will not be received by the friends of group Online Friends. Also, friends in the group Online Friends will not be able to view the user’s family pictures and videos unless explicitly granted by the user.   His vision was to create a social networking site for people who do not like Facebook’s and Myspace’s  single pile of friends and lack of privacy tools.  </p>
<p>The concept of groups to him is not new as he had this idea in mind way back when he purchased  an invite domain name <a href="http://www.clicktorsvp.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.clicktorsvp.com</a> in 2004.  He had this concept of sending invitations to different sets of groups by creating and managing groups of invitees.   While thinking of a matching domain name for the group social networking site,  he kept looking for funding which will include the patent expenses for the group social networking website.   In order for him to hide this idea from investors,  he instead disclosed the idea of  his local search website named <a href="http://www.switchlocal.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.switchlocal.com</a> but told the  prospective  investors that  part of the funding will be used for patent expenses of a new generation of social networking website and the investors will also co-own it  without telling them the actual concept as it may get stolen.   Unfortunately,  he was not able to secure any funding.   The breakthrough could have happened when a friend was about to pour-in some minimal funding but backed-out later on.   </p>
<p>  <br />
He started researching on how to create a patent by himself as he did not have any funds available to hire a patent lawyer.   Having 2 to 3 hours of sleep every night,  having some recurring medical symptoms, working full-time, running a family by himself and adding the burden of a writing a patent took a significant toll to his health.   He was rushed to  emergency room in January 2009 and medical bills piled up .   Even when  he was paying minimal payments every month, the hospital  ruined his credit that caused banks to close his credit cards which made it much  more impossible to get patent money.   <br />
 <br />
While recovering from an undiagnosed  medical condition,   he went back to work in his full-time job,  he  postponed writing the patent and stopped the development of an almost finished switchlocal.com website.<br />
Still, he did not give up his hope and kept dreaming that someday he may start his group social networking website.    He did not doubt  that he could accomplish it because in 2006, he successfully completed  a cake website named <a href="http://www.cakeamerica.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.cakeamerica.com</a> without any  external funding.   (He did not make  money out of it because he did quit the idea of charging the cake businesses when he learned some of them were struggling single-parents running their home businesses).</p>
<p>It was in 2010 that he came up with the matching name for the group social networking website.   It is  http://www.circledspace.com &#8212; circles would represent the groups and the space in the name is  to indicate it is a social networking website such as <a href="http://www.myspace.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.myspace.com</a> .   He was so excited when he got that name, he told his kids that even if they could not secure any  funding,  the three of them will make this happen.   His son, 13 years old,  will take care of the CSS and some minor Javascript coding and  his daughter, 11 years old, will take care of the design images and him will take care of the actual programming.   He told his kids that circledspace.com will be the means of securing funds for their college education.    The family used to talk about the plan and this dream but they realized the mounting task ahead of them.   It was planned that they will start developing circledspaced.com in summer of 2011.</p>
<p>Then, the heart-breaking news broke out on June 28th  2011 &#8211; the beta version  of Google + was released.</p>
<p>“On Tuesday,  when I  saw the news about Google + Circles,  I was shocked,  I felt a sudden weakening of my body,  my eyes became teary,   and I just murmured ,  my family just lost a dream.   Google + Circles is 100% the same as my concept of circledspace.com.    Since that day until now I am having difficulty sleeping.    I had that idea for years.   I thought my family could have hit a home run but a very big powerful competitor ran over us.“  said the entrepreneur in Comstock Park, Michigan. </p>
<p>He took a deep breath and furthermore said. “One day,  my Lord Jesus will  let my family hit a home run too.   All I desire is to secure the college education of my children.    If Manny Pacquiao could emerge as a world boxing champion in spite of all the hardships  and obstacles he faced,   I believe one day my family will eventually emerge a winner too. ”</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-120492</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goskoop.com has already implemented what Google has planned to do with Google Circles; Goskoop.com lets you share your needs and communicate selectively with the appropriate lists of people. And this is just  20% of what Goskoop.com is about. They are planning to implement a new platform that combines the benefits of social communications and buying &amp; selling over the internet.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Goskoop.com has already implemented what Google has planned to do with Google Circles; Goskoop.com lets you share your needs and communicate selectively with the appropriate lists of people. And this is just  20% of what Goskoop.com is about. They are planning to implement a new platform that combines the benefits of social communications and buying &amp; selling over the internet.</p>
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		<title>By: jay-R-V</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-120362</link>
		<dc:creator>jay-R-V</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is Chismiz.com, Similar to Google Circle, and we&#039;ve been trying to reach Google for Partnership. Our website still under development. 

Chismiz.com joins the social network
In the wave of social 
network sites, Chismiz.com is joining the revelation. The web site has 
compilation of features from other social networking sites.

As Chismiz Founder&#039;s Says: &quot;We are not Facebook. 
However Chismiz.com does combine the accessibility and immediacy of 
Facebook,Myspace, Friendster,LinkID, Hi5,etc... Chismiz.com is an online
 social networking site where you can work, collaborate and socialize 
all in one place.
The uniqueness of the site is it is convenient 
to all and it takens everyone&#039;s favorite features and implemented them 
into one place.
It was created, April of 2011.The website combined with all features from twitter,facebook,myspace, and other social networking.
Chismiz.com
 is an online social networking that can connect and expand your 
network, view profiles and add new friends,share your photos and videos,
 create your own group or join others. Connects globally with other 
people, new friends, family.
Unlike Yahoo messenger and Skype, 
Chismiz.com uses Web video chat application so instead of downloading 
and installing a video messenger, members can save there space of their 
hard drive.
Chismiz.com also have Email System ( http://mail.chismiz.com
 ) and it&#039;s free to signup. For companies that wants to create a page 
for their site, Chismiz has it, companies can create a page and also can
 do make an online meeting with the tool video chat conference.
Members and businesses can also sell their products online on the tool Marketplace.
For Students and Teachers, they can create a page and can upload a document when they create a page.
Chismiz.com has almost everything. It is not just a social network site, but also it has a purpose.
Feature members can also upload videos, music, photos, documents, they can also search files, documents, etc..
Features:
Video
 Chat Tags Maps MarketPlace Collaborative share Desktop Sharing( Similar
 to remote desktop) Games Videos Photos Conference Chat Blogs 
Classifieds Employment(To find and post a job) Auctions Store and more..
Join Us now @ http://www.chismiz.com
Chismiz.com &quot;Where you can work, collaborate, social all in one place&quot; GBTW - Get back to work at chismiz
Signup Now @ Chismiz.com]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is Chismiz.com, Similar to Google Circle, and we&#8217;ve been trying to reach Google for Partnership. Our website still under development. </p>
<p>Chismiz.com joins the social network<br />
In the wave of social<br />
network sites, Chismiz.com is joining the revelation. The web site has<br />
compilation of features from other social networking sites.</p>
<p>As Chismiz Founder&#8217;s Says: &#8220;We are not Facebook.<br />
However Chismiz.com does combine the accessibility and immediacy of<br />
Facebook,Myspace, Friendster,LinkID, Hi5,etc&#8230; Chismiz.com is an online<br />
 social networking site where you can work, collaborate and socialize<br />
all in one place.<br />
The uniqueness of the site is it is convenient<br />
to all and it takens everyone&#8217;s favorite features and implemented them<br />
into one place.<br />
It was created, April of 2011.The website combined with all features from twitter,facebook,myspace, and other social networking.<br />
Chismiz.com<br />
 is an online social networking that can connect and expand your<br />
network, view profiles and add new friends,share your photos and videos,<br />
 create your own group or join others. Connects globally with other<br />
people, new friends, family.<br />
Unlike Yahoo messenger and Skype,<br />
Chismiz.com uses Web video chat application so instead of downloading<br />
and installing a video messenger, members can save there space of their<br />
hard drive.<br />
Chismiz.com also have Email System ( <a href="http://mail.chismiz.com" rel="nofollow">http://mail.chismiz.com</a><br />
 ) and it&#8217;s free to signup. For companies that wants to create a page<br />
for their site, Chismiz has it, companies can create a page and also can<br />
 do make an online meeting with the tool video chat conference.<br />
Members and businesses can also sell their products online on the tool Marketplace.<br />
For Students and Teachers, they can create a page and can upload a document when they create a page.<br />
Chismiz.com has almost everything. It is not just a social network site, but also it has a purpose.<br />
Feature members can also upload videos, music, photos, documents, they can also search files, documents, etc..<br />
Features:<br />
Video<br />
 Chat Tags Maps MarketPlace Collaborative share Desktop Sharing( Similar<br />
 to remote desktop) Games Videos Photos Conference Chat Blogs<br />
Classifieds Employment(To find and post a job) Auctions Store and more..<br />
Join Us now @ <a href="http://www.chismiz.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.chismiz.com</a><br />
Chismiz.com &#8220;Where you can work, collaborate, social all in one place&#8221; GBTW &#8211; Get back to work at chismiz<br />
Signup Now @ Chismiz.com</p>
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		<title>By: You Suck At Life!</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-120266</link>
		<dc:creator>You Suck At Life!</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You suck at life... Google Circles is not some secret project. It&#039;s actually a part of Google+ or &quot;The Google+ Project&quot; or http://plus.google.com. Ever hear of a thing called research instead of copy and paste?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You suck at life&#8230; Google Circles is not some secret project. It&#8217;s actually a part of Google+ or &#8220;The Google+ Project&#8221; or <a href="http://plus.google.com" rel="nofollow">http://plus.google.com</a>. Ever hear of a thing called research instead of copy and paste?</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-119494</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frankly I think that is brilliant.
The big problem with facebook is that it mixes social groups that people normally do not mix.
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Frankly I think that is brilliant.<br />
The big problem with facebook is that it mixes social groups that people normally do not mix.</p>
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		<title>By: niels niels</title>
		<link>http://www.slashgear.com/google-circles-and-what-it-doesnt-mean-for-you-23161112/#comment-119458</link>
		<dc:creator>niels niels</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[circles within circles comprise the entire universe]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>circles within circles comprise the entire universe</p>
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