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Eric Schmidt: The people who built the Internet did not get a stable version of identity; You need identity, in the sense that you are a person, this is
by vladd 15y ago
Eric Schmidt:
The people who built the Internet did not get a stable
version of identity; You need identity, in the sense that
you are a person, this is who you are these are your
friends and so on … The issue on the Internet is not the
lack of Facebook, the issue on the Internet is the lack
of identity.
(from http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/eric-schmidt-on-gauging-googles-success/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/07/09/eric-schmidt-on-gauging-goo... )
See also http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author http://www.blindfiveyearold.com/how-to-implement-rel-author .
- paganel 15y ago> The issue on the Internet is not the lack of Facebook, the issue on the Internet is the lack of identity. How would one use PirateBay with a real identity? Or browse porn websites? Or anonymously flirting with people in chat rooms? What's wrong with this Internet? </rhetorical questions>
- vladd 15y agoPersonalized search and targeted ads can be monetized very well when you have strong identity.
- autarch 15y agoIdentity is not the same as "name on your birth certificate". Skud's identity is Skud, not Kirrily Roberts. I'm all for having stable identities on social networking services, but that has nothing to do with legal names vs pseudonyms.
- joe_the_user 15y agoI agree that effective identity is about who you can become on the Internet. But there really isn't any middle ground between imposing the name on one's birth certificate and letting people create whatever identity they want - after all, every pseudonym has to begin as anonymous pseudonym and gain connections.
- murz 15y agoThe G+ names policy doesn't say "name on your birth certificate". It says "the name you commonly go by in real life", see: http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271 http://www.google.com/support/+/bin/answer.py?answer=1228271 Even if Skud does go by that name in daily life, I don't see how it comes as any surprise that he is suspended pending review for that name. He even says it himself: > I knew I was at risk of my account (under the name of “Skud .”) being suspended
- sedev 15y agoThe policy that they are enforcing is that you must use your legal name, leading many people to the obvious conclusion that the policy is bullshit.