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Two Scoops of Buzz
Lots of Buzz buzz is still running through the internets yet, so here's a bit more of it, just in case you aren't burnt out yet. Google has added a one-button disable option to totally remove the system from Gmail. I'm sure someone there sure wishes that had been on by default. This is partially in response to a class action complaint and follows earlier cleanup efforts as well as an apology for auto-follow. Since there is no Facebook interaction, I still wonder what traction they will get. But maybe this means the end of Twitter.
Google, being the power house that it is, could easily build the apps and operability that Twitter has.
Oh please, no - the apps and all that crap are why I ditched twitter and facebook and the rest. No more freaking retarded data mining nuisance apps!
An operating system should be like a light switch... simple, effective, easy to use, and designed for everyone.
I deleted my gmail account as soon as I heard about the horrific gross absent-minded violation of my privacy. "fixing things after the fact" doesn't cut it when it comes to things like this. If they're this utterly stupid once, then they'll be this stupid again.
Seriously, google at one time was "I trust them more than anyone, do no evil and they seem to mean it", but then lately over to "maybe kinda not trust" - but this throws them all the way right through to "trust less that Microsoft, and no where f***** near as trustworthy as Yahoo".
I will not under any circumstances ever trust them with anything important ever again.