Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
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Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
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Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#2Bullshit. It's an ad-targeting service.
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#3Losing hope in G+ very fast.
They're going to make the same mistakes that are killing Facebook. I'm also concerned about them selling data from G+, since Schmidt describes it as an identity service. It's a very evil concept.
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#4I'm kind of disappointed in their handling of it. I personally would like Google+ to succeed and at first glance it seems the real-name policy is not good for publicity, and subsequently not good for Google+'s growth.
The majority of people will use their real names anyway so I can't imagine why forcing it on everyone would help much of anything.
Can someone help me understand their rationale?
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#5Bullshit. It's an ad-targeting service.
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Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#6I'm kind of disappointed in their handling of it. I personally would like Google+ to succeed and at first glance it seems the real-name policy is not good for publicity, and subsequently not good for Google+'s growth. The majority of people will use their real names anyway so I can't imagine why forcing it on everyone would help much of anything. Can someone help me understand their rationale?
"Can someone help me understand their rationale?"
Google is ultimately trying to turn the web into their own app store so that anyone who wants to create, view, monetize, or share content has to do it using their proprietary services.
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#7I'm kind of disappointed in their handling of it. I personally would like Google+ to succeed and at first glance it seems the real-name policy is not good for publicity, and subsequently not good for Google+'s growth. The majority of people will use their real names anyway so I can't imagine why forcing it on everyone would help much of anything. Can someone help me understand their rationale?
Perhaps their rationale has something to do with a bigger plan of correlating G+ info with names of people they find online.
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#8Out of curiosity, how did the duplicate URL detector not catch that this was submitted four hours earlier?
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#9I'm kind of disappointed in their handling of it. I personally would like Google+ to succeed and at first glance it seems the real-name policy is not good for publicity, and subsequently not good for Google+'s growth. The majority of people will use their real names anyway so I can't imagine why forcing it on everyone would help much of anything. Can someone help me understand their rationale?
"Can someone help me understand their rationale?" Google is ultimately trying to turn the web into their own app store so that anyone who wants to create, view, monetize, or share content has to do it using their proprietary services.
Do you honestly believe that?
Re: Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service"
#10Out of curiosity, how did the duplicate URL detector not catch that this was submitted four hours earlier? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2931770
The two URLs were not identical, as the earlier submitted had additional characters at the end (which appear to be a no-op in this case).