I couldn’t help but to click through to a post with the title of “How Google Failed Its Users and Gave Birth to an Internet Meme“, but reading the post, I have to say that Mike is way off the mark here. His main point is that when users typed “Facebook login” into Google, they shouldn’t have gotten RWW, but Facebook:
While we mock those users, the simple fact is they haven’t necessarily failed, something failed them. With all of our talk about the semantic Web and search engine optimization and [...]
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Google did something that, given that they are a public company and need to make money, that is pretty astounding, they are risking pissing off China and losing revenue to stand up for their principles.
I think this quote from Google’s official post maybe become one of the greatest quotes of the year and maybe the decade:
These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered–combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web–have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our [...]
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free speech,
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human rights
Hey did you feel that? That subtle shift? That was us moving into a new section of the tech bell curve, the section where more of tech moves from the early adopter section and into the mainstream.
No, I’m not really talking about Facebook. To me Facebook is like the California Roll of social media, it’s easy to get into and there is no of the raw fish to scare the sensitive away. I’m not talking about blogs either, blogs have become shorthand for web-publishing now. What I’m thinking about is [...]
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This morning I chimed in on Google’s new public DNS service since then it looks like Techmeme has been alight with discussion about it, and not all of it completely positive. I posed that Google could decide to wield control over how people get to sites, but maybe that isn’t the biggest concern, maybe the concern is that Google could use the data it gathers about sites to create a hierarchy of which sites are “better” than others or just feeding Google more and more data on how to push [...]
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Google DNS,
OpenDNS,
Social Media,
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Beyond everything else that was going on Thursday, like everyone else I was anxiously awaiting Google’s announcements about their much anticipated Chrome OS. Lucky for me, I teach my BCIT class on Thursdays I had bigger things on my mind to worry about reading live blogs on the whole announcement and presentation. I waited until I got home and then started to read. What I read wasn’t really flattering for Google though:
Google ChromeOS: It’s basically a modified browser that runs web apps
Everything You Need To Know About Chrome OS – [...]
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I didn’t really pay much attention to Google SearchWiki when it came out. Generally I’m not logged in to Google itself when I’m searching, so I didn’t notice.
Being the curious sort I finally logged in and messed around with it. I searched for “Tris Hussey” and “Tris”. The first came up with the usual results, the second the same. Of course on the second I knocked out all references to buffers or government agencies.
Mike Arrington doesn’t like it at all and a lot SEO types are more that a tad [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
