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Google Preparing "Google Mine" For Organizing and Sharing Your Stuff On Google+
MojoKid writes "George Carlin said it best, we all 'need a place to put our stuff.' It seems the folks at Google understand this age old wisdom as well and as such will be launching a new service. Google Mine will reportedly soon be integrated with Google+ so that users can share their belongings with friends in circles they so designate. The new service will also allow G+ users to rate and review items as well, so that anyone in your Google+ stream that you allow, can see the items and your opinion of them. Reportedly there is also an Android app on the way for Mine, which seems like a natural of course, for sharing your stuff on the go. What's perhaps most interesting about the prospects of Google+ Mine could be the secondary benefit that Google receives from data 'mining' your shares on the items you own, use or want."
When we are all Google Miners, we will all become GoogleBot.
They couldn't have chosen a more ironic name for it if they tried to. Or could they, /. ?
At least they are being honest now.. They are mining YOU!
Boy, not sure what I'm more excited about. The "What's the Vic's net worth?" facial recognition application for Google Glass or this great new tool for burglars.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
I'm just waiting for the day when i have to close my gmail account due to the autoshare feature where all my g+ contacts get a a "Meh just received an email from amazon where he bought a facial massage, click here to buy too!"
Most people have too much stuff, and we don't even realize it. Get rid of half your stuff and you will find it incredibly liberating. You will discover that you your residence is less cluttered, it's easier to focus, it takes less time to clean and it's easier to spend time at your residence. Donate it, sell it, give it away, loan it, just plain get rid of it. You'll thank yourself for long afterwords.
Seriously, anyone here got anything out of the NSA scandal, ANYONE??!!
They were the first to collaborate with them. They have the largest most detailed database just for them, I have been saying over and over how fucking scary google is, no need for much of a brain to understand the power they have and the VERY EASY way to use it for complete evil, now we have PROOF. PROOF FOR FUCK SAKE!! Yet every fucking retard on the net still roots for them and call them awesome. FUCKING SHIT what more do you want, what the fuck will it take to get you retarded sheep dickheads to understand how fucking evil this company is??!!
fuck politeness, fuck grammar, sometimes people just need to be told stuff bluntly:
YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID AND DANGEROUS.
...presumably they mean with the NSA?
Location service [X]
social networking system to say when out [X]
Home information based upon past social posts [X]
List of property [X]
One bad share later...
In Soviet Russia Google mines YOU!
The last time I went to it no one in my circles had updated anything about their profile in the past year.
Meh.
So much for Google.
I wonder who is dopey enough to use this?
These last couple of years are taking the shape of a creepy social experiment in which calloused developers working for billionaire corporations, see just how far they can go. "New app lets you share with all your friends and social-network-acquaintances the consistency of your last poop." Wow! Now with new icons and a fantastic new color scheme! Available for iphone, android, Blackberry, but not Winphone (sorry, folks)!
Then watch everyone rush out and coo over the new app, forgetting the fact they're now publicizing something even more personal than the last time.
How far will they go? I dunno - how far will we let them? Me, I'm going anti-social, and fast. This new social network trend is a recipe for disaster, and I plan on laughing about it from the safety of my underground weapons cache and tinfoil hat collection.
If this were Usenet, I'd killfile the lot of you.
There is no better way to define you as a person then what you own.
You are what you own.
I would never share anything with my friends without letting the NSA know.
"He's onto us! It leaked!" ..."
"We'll have to rush to drop it at AppStore!"
"Did we flush all the bugs?"
"Yes, it's solid!
OK, OK, I've got it, I'm leaving now, I'm leaving by myself, no need to use force...
I don't think GC would appreciate being associated with this unless it was to make fun of the people that are using it.
Leave aside the the privacy and sharing issues for a moment. What difference in my life will it make if I tell the world that I own certain objects? None whatsoever. All it can do is help corporate America by making other people want what I have.
What's yours is mine and what's mine is mine.
and all over NSA underpants.
Google's new storage service: MINE!!!!!
Mine!
Mine!
Mine!
Unless it violates the law. Then it's yours and we'll tell the FBI about it.
When Page became CEO he started on a house-cleaing binge, shutting down various services. They said they had launched too many little products/initiatives, and now needed to put more resources behind fewer projects/products.
Recently, with the launch of Keep - which looks like a nice start but is very barebones - and now the possible launch of Mine, it looks like they have already forgotten that sentiment.
...goes kaput?
at this point, only fools trust google to keep things running. put your 'stuff' there, get used to it and in a year or two, they change their minds and either change the terms on you or outright cancel it.
I would not touch google services ever again. 'free' is not free when you have to spend time, later on, relocating.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
What's wrong with simple names like gmail? I can only imagine the group of people that came up the double entendre Google Mine. I don't want to use it simply because of the name. Why not gshare? I would no it''s google and I would know what it was for. Google Drive, Google Play, +. Why not stick to gspace, gstore, gsocial. What's next, the google porn site called Google Nothing.
One Timex digital watch, broken. One unused prophylactic. One soiled. One black suit jacket, one pair black suit pants. One hat, black. One pair of sunglasses. $23.07. Sign here.
I am not even going to waste electrons describing why Google DataMine (the "data" is silent) is a bad idea. These reasons will have already occurred to anyone intelligent enough to bother discussing them with.
Google Mines Yo..
No, wait..
The only thing better than stupid opinions people express on Yelp is having my own personal Yelp where people write their idiotic opinions about my house and possessions.
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Pretending to give a shit about your privacy.
Google scares the hell out me. The stuff coming out of there has become really creepy. Are we on a unstoppable path to a Dystopian future?
As long as you consider that everything you put in the cloud is essentially public, or at least, that have access to it specifically the people that could damage you more having access to it (even by misunderstanding it), is up to you. At the very least until Google relocates itself on their own data heaven outside any national jurisdiction.
most people do like to boast about their possessions. I wonder if it will ensure some kind of truth policy like the real name policy on some sites - "Sorry, Porsche is not a valid item for Your social circle".
Neither slashdot summary nor TFA give me a clear idea of what this stuff is about. Am I getting old or is it just too early in the morning?
At least I understood this is about giving Google some personal data. But that (Google + personal data) is a easy finding
They require use of G+? How many times must I close a tab in order not to accept its TOS?
no face, no space.. /.'s as social as I get. Screw G+
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He said "shit". He talked about people running out of room for their shit and having to get a bigger house so they could put more shit into it. And that is what 90% of what most people own is, shit. Even more so now that both software and hardware tech are designed around planned obselesence. That nice new smart phone or table you have will be shit in 12 to 18 months when the new model comes out. And your personal information is shit too. The price of all your personal information google has on you is probably less than $1.00 when they sell it.
Ponder that for a minute.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
Sure, this move benefits Google greatly -you're tagging their database and giving them more personal info, for free.
For the user though, not so much. If you've bought a hot new phone and want to show it off, its much more satisfying to do it in person where you can gush over it and more importantly, see your friend's reaction.
If you must share the news online, theres so many other ways to do it, over FB or Twitter for instance. All this instrusiveness achieves is make people more wary of using G+.
the amount of tin-foil-hat crazy on here needs to stop. From what I gather, this is not only optional, but is even then just a tool to show cool stuff to people. Ever buy a new _ and tell people about it? Or get a message from a friend about their cool new _? That's all this is. Get over yourselves. I like Slashdot because it discusses what other news sources ignore, but every time I see crazy on this scale, I start considering finding a new source. There's also this thing called Ebay. And places where you can store your stuff. Time to jump off a cliff? Please hurry, and leave the rest of us alone.
I remember the time when cookies being set was such a big deal. I remember seeing Leo Laporte (on ZDNet.. the screensavers? ) admonish websites who didn't have a privacy policy stating that they would never log your IP/access to their website or set any cookies. How times have changed :)
It looks like Google tries to make G+ even more confusing. They seem panicked in finding something to up Facebook. I have a suggestion, call it Google Everything. We know that's coming anyway, right? So let's tattoo our G+ ID as barcode on our arms or foreheads and get it done with.
Curiously yours, crip.
I work in used stuff (vintage, antiques, etc.) and the price of 1930s high school yearbooks is quite interesting. I guess Google's future rights to sell access to dead people's images is a good investment. If I'm really bothered by it I can buy shares in Google or start my own depository. I just hope each time Disney and Friends gets congress to further extend their exclusive rights to Disney creations like Pocahontas and Sleeping Beauty, that we'll also get the copyright to our "data mine" extended, so I can freeze my head like Uncle Walt and enjoy the proceeds as much as he will when they defrost him.
Gently reply
I'm preparing to migrate away from as many Google services as possible.
Described by me here, but others had the idea before: http://www.pdfernhout.net/post-scarcity-princeton.html#Princeton_University_Freecycle_Transportation_Network_--_an_internet_of_physical_packages
From there, as a disclosure to make it harder to patent it all:
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Princeton University Freecycle Transportation Network -- an internet of physical packages
Here is just one more example of changes to PU's infrastructure and operations from a Post-Scarcity point of view. These might take burning another billion dollars of the PU endowment or so, but you will see soon another reason why money is going out of style anyway, whether PU does this or someone else. :-) But, there may well be reasonable objections to it, so consider it first mainly as a thought experiment in understanding Post-Scarcity style issues. Maybe it is both possible and worth doing, maybe it is neither.
A big problem in a post-scarcity society is not so much how to make abundance, but how to get rid of it. :-) The Freecycle network mentioned at the start is an example of that:
http://www.freecycle.org/
Or, from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freecycle_Network
"The Freecycle Network (often abbreviated TFN or just known as Freecycle) is a non-profit organization ... that organizes a worldwide network of "gifting" groups, aiming to divert reusable goods from landfill. It provides a worldwide online registry, and coordinates the creation of local groups and forums for individuals and non-profits to offer and receive free items for reuse or recycling, promoting gift economics as a motivating cultural outlook. "Changing the world one gift at a time" is The Freecycle Network's official tagline. "
(Note that "Freecycle" is a trademark, so if PU used it, it would need permission.)
Obviously, long term the solution in a few decades might be general purpose nanotech 3D printers that can both "print" (or "compile") and "unprint" (or "decompile").
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Perhaps you don't believe that kind of 3D printing and unprinting is possible or even desirable (perhaps due to energy costs of disassembly). Or maybe you think 3D printing might be possible, but would take a long time. Or perhaps you expect much production and disposal may still be centralized at least at the neighborhood level. Or maybe you expect that people will still have sentimental attachments to specific items they wish to store and retrieve. So, until all those issues are resolved for 3D printing, how can PU handle the embarrasment of material riches it has now and will soon have more of? And how can it make it *easy* to do the same as "The Freecycle Network" does -- give away items to people who want them instead of sending them to a landfill?
Material transportation and storage systems (like Amazon uses) could play a big role here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Bezos ('86)
As could interactive computer information systems on material goods (like eBay pioneered).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman ('77)
How might these be used together?
Princeton University could put in place a system of kiosks around campus which had what looked like Star Trek matter replicators. These would all be connected underground to one or more warehouses. Whenever anyone needed anything on campus, they would go to a kiosk and flip through
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
I'd actually been thinking about a service somewhat like this for a while now, but apparently missed my opportunity to have my app bought out by Google. Pity.
The problem with Google's project is it appears (I haven't read TFA yet) to only go half-way: it allows me to list the stuff I've got, but doesn't allow me to share my stuff with my friends. I'm much less interested in putting up an inventory of everything I own to allow my friends to tell me how much it sucks than I am in putting certain things up that I want to share with certain people (i.e. my circular saw, my DVD collection, etc.) and then tracking the loans online. THAT is the power of the online social inventory system!
But I LIKE my package!
And the more you get rid of, the more the rest of us can buy at used prices, reducing our COL, stress, and shopping angst. Works for me. Get rid of stuff! Stuff is bad! Particularly stuff like, um, money, yeah, and cute girlfriends, and um, let's see, great audio gear, fine guitars, and... oh, hey, stuff like an original Apple I, you have one of those, it's *really* ruining your life, just email me and I'll solve your horrible problem; I'll pick it up personally for you. I am your best friend in this matter. Carry on, now.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
We should be moving toward keeping all our 'stuff' in a distributed individual server which we personally control, but services can access via standard API.
There is a new project toward building this interoperable API - tent.io . It is just getting started, but deserves community support.
Ain't that awesome. My things could have their own social network. They can "friend" and "like" other things. I'll try to keep my bank accounts from social networking. I don't want my bank account sexting with somebody's paypal account.
Glad to se the google shills are out in full force today! You never fail me, slashdot.
iTrAsset (www.itrasset.com) was launched earlier this month. The inception of our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/Itrasset) will serve as proof.
So what is iT -iTrAsset creates a connection with your assets. It lets you take an inventory of all your belongings. In the long-run iTrAsset lets you create lasting memories. And if you decide to sell any of your assets, it can provide a rich history (including pictures, videos, history, etc.) that can (only if you choose) be shared with a buyer. You can share your public assets with your Facebook friends.
But yesterday Google leaked plans for a new service Google Mine. GM will reportedly soon be integrated with Google+ so that users can share their belongings with friends in circles they so designate.
Does it hurt us or help us to have Google as a competitor? Plus we actually beat them to the market. What do you think?