Lil’ Avengers / J.J. Kirby
Cute!
Return User Identity
Ten years of evolution: 2011 iPod vs. 2001 iPod.
Me and Julio down by the schoolyard.
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back, 1980 (dir. Irvin Kershner)
By lyrabelacqua
Don't Be Evil*
The main issue is that Google misrepresented Mocality and pretented to be affiliated with them.
*except if evilness is good for business.
The basics: Google, by way of their Getting Kenyan Business Online initiative, stole customers (and data) from rival Mocality.
Mocality uncovered as much in a clever sting operation, not unlike the one Google itself used to catch Bing “borrowing” search results last year.
What a fucked up situation. Google has fessed up to it, but is distancing themselves — “a team of people working on a Google project” sure is a funny way of saying “Google employees”. Not good.
Misdirection, Doublespeak, Non-Answers, And Straight Up Bad Decisions
“Twitter’s rel=nofollow instructions” is such a red herring. I don’t see how Google can back track out of this one.
God bless Danny Sullivan. You should read his latest post tonight in which he tries to squeeze some information — any information — out of Google chairman Eric Schmidt about today’s rather disastrous deep Google+ integration into Google Search. Unfortunately, all he gets are bursts of hot air.
Schmidt tells him that Google would be happy to talk with Twitter and Facebook about integration into the new Search+ features. So why didn’t they do that before, you know, they rolled the feature out? Well, never you mind that. Schmidt refuses to say one way or another if they did or didn’t. “I’m not going to talk about specifics.”
My understanding is that they didn’t. But perhaps more telling is the fact that they didn’t have to.
Both Twitter and Facebook have data that is available to the public. It’s data that Google crawls. It’s data that Google even has some social context for thanks to older Google Profile features, as Sullivan points out.
It’s not all the data inside the walls of Twitter and Facebook — hence the need for firehose deals. But the data Google can get is more than enough for many of the high level features of Search+ — like the “People and Places” box, for example.
Grant Brünner: Bassguy: Avast!
Interesting that AVAST Software spells their business name in all capitals.
Here is an email exchange between myself and Kristýna Mazánková, a PR rep from avast! antivirus. I’ve left the emails in tact, and that includes my embarrassing typos (“is is” and “an grammatical”). I don’t reference their product at all in my article, and I will not change it because some…
(by Richard Bram)
“Heartbeats” by Mount Weak
Originally by The Knife
(Source: mountweak, via perfectmidnightworld)
