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by jdp23 15y ago
Excellent article, thanks for the link!
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Say No to the Meat Wallet(xom.blogs.com)
2 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
I knew one of the people behind it.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Here's some backstory, from the 1990s when the Massachusetts' Group Insurance Commission released "anonymized" health data: ''At the time GIC released the data, William Weld, then Governor of Massachusetts, assured the public that GIC had p
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by jdp23 15y ago
Congrats to Dropbox. I have to admit that I still don't see their sustainable advantage but the folks with the money clearly do!
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Google Plus forces us to discuss identity(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yes, this video was done by an internal group at Microsoft.
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by jdp23 15y ago
I just showed this to a Mac user who responded "Streamlined! Intuitive! Look at all that stuff, why would I use that?"
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Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"(plus.google.com)
88 points by jdp23 15y ago|80 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Excellent analysis. SXSW explicitly looks for diversity as part of its selection criteria, so it's disappointing that the progress in getting more women to submit proposals isn't matched by the panelist ratio or the actual selected speaker
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by jdp23 15y ago
I strongly agree as well.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed, Slashdot's moderation/karma/meta-moderation remains state-of-the art -- nobody else I'm aware of comes close to it.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Good incremental steps. Dare we hope that Google+'s positioning as "more privacy-friendly than Facebook" is creating a race to the top?
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by jdp23 15y ago
Surprising to see this via Bloomberg. Encouraging, too!
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Poll: how should Google+ fix its names problems?(plus.google.com)
2 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
Here's his original post, now with an update at the beginning: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/X58hnS9P...
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by jdp23 15y ago
> The company, which began as Fabulis, a gay social networking site ... Good pivot.
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SXSW Panel Picker Voting Starts Today(panelpicker.sxsw.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
A mess very definitely is technical debt. True, as opposed to the "clean" debt that Uncle Bob's advocating, it's a bit like getting expensive cash advances on a credit card or going to a loan shark. A mess is likely to be a lot harder to
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Use your real name on Google+ or get minused fast(technolog.msnbc.msn.com)
3 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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Google+ Punts on Kafkaesque Name Policy(wired.com)
3 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
The stated policy differs from the reality. If your account is flagged for potentially having a false name, you have to produce government ID or online evidence that it's your name, and they're very selective about what online they accept.
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by jdp23 15y ago
They didn't actually change the policy, just the enforcement: you'll now get a 4-day grace period to produce ID or change your name before your account is suspended. There's lots of discussion about this on G+: Mike Elgan of Computerworld i
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by jdp23 15y ago
There's also discussion on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/117421021456205115327/posts/BPKvVJm7...
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Google Plus Tells Pseudonym Lovers to Shove It(readwriteweb.com)
36 points by jdp23 15y ago|21 comments
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by jdp23 15y ago
I was lucky enough to do some work with Tony when I was at Microsoft Research. As well as being brilliant, he's a gentleman in the best sense of the word -- and continues to remain open to new ideas. I sure hope I'm like him when I grow u
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by jdp23 15y ago
Hmm, it seems to be more about objecting to the specific expert witness they're using: "In April, Microsoft sent Google a subpoena asking for a variety of information, including confidential source code.... In its motion for sanctions, Goog
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by jdp23 15y ago
For those who don't like Metro, the Guardian has the same quote from Cameron: "We are working with the Police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people communicating via these websites and s
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Google Group Members to Use Facial Recognition to Identify London Rioters(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jdp23 15y ago|0 comments
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#nymday: Name Sovereignty Day(storify.com)
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