Google+: One too many eggs in the Google basket
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Google+: One too many eggs in the Google basket
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#2This is like saying you should be a citizen of more than one country, so in case you do something illegal in one, you can always flee to another.
Why don't you just not break the ToS?
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#3This article has several scary insights. When Google has too many eggs, they start to work against each other for the user. And talking about monopolies: "If you think that Facebook has a monopoly in the social scene, just imagine for a second what your life on the web would be like if you switched to Google+" Sebastian didn't even mention Google Fiber! Eventually, Google might even be your internet service provider!!! WOW. It is interesting how this article starts out leaving you to believe that Google+ is beneficial to the social network industry, but then gives reason after reason why we live in a scary world that collects and sells your information.
I also think the vagueness about how Google defines "illegal" is ridiculous! Why don't they just make Google+ a self-policed community? This solves all sorts of issues.
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#4I find it interesting that the article begins by talking about how great it is that Google+ puts pressure on facebook and then immediately tries to paint the service as a bad thing. Intrinsic to the claim that G+ is a long-awaited challenge to the "monopolistic" facebook is the obvious fact that Google is one of the few entities with the power to challenge the facebook behemoth. So why then does the author then complain that Google is too big?
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#5This is of course not limited to Google. Consider the case of someone who returned a television on the recommendation of the Amazon help desk, but that triggered their customer-has-returned-too-many-items --- which then disabled his access to his ebooks purchased through Amazon books.[1] And if that person was an entrepreneur using S3/EC2 for his idea for a new company, he could lose access to his Amazon virtual machines, too.
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#6This is like saying you should be a citizen of more than one country, so in case you do something illegal in one, you can always flee to another. Why don't you just not break the ToS?
Because the ToS are infantilizing, designed to water-down human interactions for maximum advertiser-friendliness?
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#7This article has several scary insights. When Google has too many eggs, they start to work against each other for the user. And talking about monopolies: "If you think that Facebook has a monopoly in the social scene, just imagine for a second what your life on the web would be like if you switched to Google+" Sebastian didn't even mention Google Fiber! Eventually, Google might even be your internet service provider!…
I can't speak for the rest, but "Why don't they just make Google+ a self-policed community?" is because companies operate, and users live, in sovereign nations and are subject to the laws of those nations. Setting up a parallel legal framework is a non-starter.
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Re: Google+: One too many eggs in the Google basket
#9This article has several scary insights. When Google has too many eggs, they start to work against each other for the user. And talking about monopolies: "If you think that Facebook has a monopoly in the social scene, just imagine for a second what your life on the web would be like if you switched to Google+" Sebastian didn't even mention Google Fiber! Eventually, Google might even be your internet service provider!…
I'm blushing :)
Yes, I actually got to the last paragraph and realized that I could then dive into Google Fiber and Chrome OS... but I had to wrap it up!
There's definitely more to say about Google and/or Facebook taking of the web, though, that's for sure.
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#10This is of course not limited to Google. Consider the case of someone who returned a television on the recommendation of the Amazon help desk, but that triggered their customer-has-returned-too-many-items --- which then disabled his access to his ebooks purchased through Amazon books.[1] And if that person was an entrepreneur using S3/EC2 for his idea for a new company, he could lose access to his Amazon virtual mach…
Did that ever get resolved? That's pretty scary, makes me want to not use amazon anymore for ebooks and to get something other than a kindle for my next e-reader.