If Facebook’s IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather like our polar ice caps: under severe, long-term attack by forces of our own creation.
Google must be getting paranoid by now. I bet Larry Page can’t fart without getting a letter from Congress these days. The latest Congressional attention of course comes from the latest privacy scandal to hit the Internet. Oh, I’m sorry, I must have channeled my inner sensationalistic blogger for that last line. The only thing that has really happened, at least as Google says it of course, is the consolidation of privacy policies. That idea was enough to get members of Congress to get their
It is painfully heartbreaking to realize that a very small tiny number of people who have access to web analytics tools actually use them. I mean really use the tool. Ravage all the features. Exploit every possible button. Produce built-in visualization magic. Poke into the hidden crevices and discover exotic delights. Nourish yourself with the info snacks that the tool's Engineers and Product Managers cooked up.
Google+ has just lowered their minimum age requirement from 18 to 13. Young teens everywhere couldn’t care less. Google VP Bradley Horowitz makes a great pitch though. . . .
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Google continues to make changes in different areas of their business. Apparently, how that business is defined is causing pains for Wall Street types which is rather amusing, but I digress.
If you can step back for enough time to see some of the other things that Google does you would maybe see less of the evil, greedy Google that seems to be the popular point of view these days and see places where they actually help people. They do this even without taking your data and “forcing” you to use their Google+ service which is simply their front for world domination. Take the new Public Alerts feature in Google Maps. It’s pretty cool and it makes good sense. Whether you are
On Twitter, you can be anybody you want to be from @angrymime to @trumpshair but Facebook and Google+ only allow you to be who you really are. Where’s the fun in that? Now, due to high demand, Google+ has decided to loosen the rules (they claim it was always part of the plan) and allow nicknames and pseudonyms — sort of.
High off their success in bringing SOPA to its knees, assorted superficial social extremists–ASSEs for short–have decided their next target should be Google. Not because of privacy issues, click fraud, or something that actually matters. No, the focus is on how Google+ is being intricately tied to search results.
