It seems like the thought process of every fledging social network this morning was: Google is launching their social network? Perfect! Time to launch our similar but not quite finished rival product. We might just get listed at the bottom of a techcrunch article in the resulting hubbub!

So Alpha.. doesn't work at all. Doesn't even have a demo of how it's supposed to work.

Took me 15 seconds to give up and close the tab.

You have ten more seconds of patience than me.

Meditation does the trick..

Worked for me. Once you login you'll see the work flow.

So he's forcing users to register, just to know what they're registering into?

This launch announcement was an epic FAIL on my part http://sharescribe.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/launch/

>http://sharescribe.wordpress.com

1. Get rid of the "Just another WordPress.com site" in the upper right hand corner. Pimp out your blog. Make the website look like you are serious. 2.Learn how to install wordpress directly on your website.It turns off people from your skills if it looks like you cannot even use the quick install most hosting companies provide. 3.It looks like you made just that one post there. Why? Starting a blog just to have a blog is not worth the time. Just use a separate page on the webpage and link to that. Format it the same way that the main page is. Keep visually consistent.

Little turns me off more than artifacty images without alt tags.

Sorry, my design skills are lacking.

Google's not even launching after all the buzz.