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by yanw 15y ago
Google is free for users and free to anyone wanting to get in their index, so they do not owe any self proclaimed competitor anything and that is the crux of it, the law is on their side, you cannot monopolize "free" and all this politician
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by yanw 15y ago
For fuck's sake senator Blumenthal just asked if Google "Has ever scraped content?" !!
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by yanw 15y ago
These senators seemed ignorant about pretty much everything involved. And as for Mr. Schmidt he should have started by saying that Google is free, it's free for users and for those wanting to be indexed by them so they don't owe any self pr
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by yanw 15y ago
You assume that tools aren't part of human evolution but they certainly are and modem tools are no exception. I assume the cognitive powers used for memorizing trivia will be reallocated to something else, they won't go away.
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by yanw 15y ago
The circles are asynchronous, and you don't see which circles you're in nor do those you "circle" see where you put them either.
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by yanw 15y ago
You seem to have a problem with social networks in general ... As for I gotta say, I'm a little offended by your audacity, because you're essentially asking me to categorize every single person I've ever had an email conversation with as a
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by yanw 15y ago
There is a pattern with these posts, as it's interesting that just before Google announces a major release someone publishes this sort of piece, either criticizing Google on privacy issues or competitive issues or describing a product as st
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Whole again or Google rebrands its ‘Huddle’ feature(girlaboutweb.posterous.com)
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Introducing the Google+ Hangouts API(googleplusplatform.blogspot.com)
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Google APIs Client Library for Java: now with OAuth 2.0(googlecode.blogspot.com)
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by yanw 15y ago
It is a stupid panicy law to begin with, the politicians who came up with it didn't think of the consequences, they just went on with their grandstandings. As for it's exceptions they are too vague and troublesome to scale for millions of u
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by yanw 15y ago
It's not their children policy it's the government's: Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) : http://www.ftc.gov/privacy/coppafaqs.shtm
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by yanw 15y ago
Bradley Horowitz talks about Apps users in depth here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5sRC67s9fg#t=23m20s Basically they want to make sure they get it right before deploying to paying users.
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by yanw 15y ago
As I've commented before: G+ is to be judged differently. Public post counts are not reliable measures, besides it's way too early to tell, ask again when it's visible to all users and integrated into all of Google's products and have the b
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by yanw 15y ago
Having different business strategies for different markets is worthy of criticism?! The choice is there, you can change the settings, the ballot just doesn't popup.
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by yanw 15y ago
You think this "evil"? In other markets Chrome doesn't have a default search engine, in this one it does. If trying to protect your investment while keeping choice and providing an opensource browser is "evil" then your standards are too fu
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by yanw 15y ago
So? that doesn't stop the other browsers (and it shouldn't). Google isn't the dominant player there and they can do whatever they want to grab market share, there is nothing wrong with that.
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by yanw 15y ago
If they are the upstarts in these countries they can do whatever they want. It's just the ballot, you can change the search engine from the settings just fine. No other browser offers a ballot anyway.
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by yanw 15y ago
It's way too early to tell, ask again when it's visible to all users and integrated into all of Google's products and have the basic features of search and even decent (vanity) urls, not to mention not requiring an invite. It's Google's soc
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by yanw 15y ago
Coupons, reviews, social networks and aggregation are hardly novel ideas. They've existed long before computation, and even were implemented in software before those you mention.
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by yanw 15y ago
It's always buy v build, the rest of your comment doesn't make sense.
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by yanw 15y ago
I do. And I haven't published even one post that wasn't targeted to a specific circle (non public). I think maybe the author should wait for G+ to be visible to all users and integrated over all Google's products, have a search feature and
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by yanw 15y ago
They specify what they mean by "evil": http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/googevil
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by yanw 15y ago
It's an obvious next step then. Their hotel search tool is US only as well: http://www.google.com/hotelfinder I guess when they are combined into /travel they will be internationalized.
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by yanw 15y ago
First iteration.
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The Bombshell That Wasn’t: FOSS Patents’ Android Scoop Misses The Mark (techcrunch.com)
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by yanw 15y ago
"Plotted"?! why make it sound so nefarious? they choose an OEM and release the code after the first device hits market. Florian Mueller is spinning this as news and people are echoing him unthinkingly. There is nothing new here nor is it an
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Canadian Pharmacies React To US Gov't Taking $500 Million From Google(techdirt.com)
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by yanw 15y ago
Of course it will. It's a bottleneck, and once it's unrestricted and there is no friction to joining they will market it to the non-techies. And regardless even a techie exclusive user-base is far from worthless.
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by yanw 15y ago
It will stop being invite only eventually, and I don't think Google is going to kill the project it's along term play that they are investing a lot in, and as integrates with all of Google's other services it'll become more valuable and get

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