Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

Post by Ziomislaw » Thu, May 23, 2013, 3:36 PM UTC

mvgoogler wrote: post #183

latj wrote: post #90

I wonder how hands on Larry Page is. I cant imagine that some Googler asked Larry face to face about XMPP. I cant even imagine that it was a bullet point in a video chat. Maybe it was an email to a large group of people that Larry may or may not have read. I can imagine that.

> I cant imagine that some Googler asked Larry face to face about XMPP He - and the rest of the leadership - have been asked about XMPP/CalDav/CarDav/RSS/Reader/ in person repeatedly. Every week there is a global meeting called TGIF. The format is almost always the same - some announcements, a presentation or two about things that various teams are working on - followed by Q&A. There is an internal Google Moderator i…

Post by piyush_soni » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:37 PM UTC

6d0debc071 wrote: post #271

piyush_soni wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And which one is going to be your next phone? An iPhone? or a Windows Phone? Just curious.

I don't know yet. Neither of those companies, (I believe? - might be wrong), has active social strategies. So, they're unlikely to use my data in ways that would increase my public risk by much. Either of them would be an improvement from that perspective. Neither are they likely to be particularly pushy when it comes to other services simply because I don't use much else that's made by them. In terms of private risk…