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Identifying Other HN Readers on Google+

10 points by Brewer ↗ HN
So there was a thread earlier that had a list of HNers that have gotten Google+ invites. I went through the list and added some 55 or 60 people, which was nice, but I think we can do better than that.

I propose that we all add a link to our HN profiles on G+ so we can identify one other easily. This could serve as a pretty good long-term solution as well. You'd be able to add other HNers one by one as you find them, rather than adding 50 or 500 in a row by their email address.

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gilligan
Would be nice to have something at least semi-automatic. You can import contacts from a yahoo account for example. So if one collected HN users in some public yahoo account it would be easy to add a lot of people in one go.. not fully sure how that should/could be done though. Maybe someone else has another idea.
Brewer
It's not automatic, but maybe we could create a directory of HN users on G+. I hear that the Google+ Developers API will be released soon, so we could use that to (hopefully) log into the directory. If you're logged in the directory would list all G+ HN users that you don't currently have added.

Just a thought.

alexis-d
Why not build a list on something like Github ? So it would be easy to fork, edit the file online, and submit a pull request (a bit tricky well, but can be setup really quickly, isn'it ?).
Brewer
That would mean going to Github and getting either an email for each person or their profile address. It's a good idea but we're looking for a single-click solution.