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Google +1: Screenshot and Details
An anonymous reader noted that a screenshot has leaked showing Google's response to the Facebook 'Like' button that is used to track your every movement throughout the web. It's called Google +1. The product is not announced or launched, nor is the updated toolbar also discussed in the story.
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He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Everything on the web gets a Numerical Rating!
Some people may get a +2. Spinal Tap gets +11.
The RPG groups will have a field day with this.
Haxxr0z will write loops to add +1 by bots.
This will force a Captcha to slow the bots down.
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Google already bought StumbleUpon a few years ago. It's awesome, use it !
* The data collected by "Like" button helps send you more stuff you'd like based on what other people also liked.
* There's a "Dislike" button
* Provides reviews / discussion thread for any web URL
* Don't need to link it to any of your other "social networks", it stands as its own separate social space pretty well. Never felt the need to share weblinks with friends / acquaintances, anyway, mostly because my IRL friends have vastly different pr0n preferences, and if a link makes me think of someone in particular I'll message it just to them.
Facebook's "like" button has always been utterly useless in comparison, somewhere just above "poke" and below "wink".
Yeah, you know, at first I agreed with your sentiment.
The problem with corporate masters is that they can easily be switched with bigger assholes than the one you signed on with. Google right now? Yeah, I mean, they're a bit sketch with the way they are collecting all the data and using it for advertising, but as far as I know, they haven't been as invasive or careless about my information as other sites have shown.
Google 10 years from now? Is Eric still going to be running the show? What if we all give up our information to a company who has shown their goodwill and kept their promises, then overnight someone else takes over the company... Suddenly everything you shared earlier is in the hands of someone you might not trust.
And there goes the neighbourhood.