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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."
They couldn't have chosen a more ironic name for it if they tried to. Or could they, /. ?
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.
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!
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.
Don't confuse what slashdot nerds care about with what people care about in the real world. Slashdot groupthink is representative of about 0.1% of the real world, tops. It's insignificant when it comes to market influences.
In the real world, nobody has a problem with google, and they are happy with google's free services. So happy that I know very few people who don't use gmail, and nobody who doesn't use google search, google maps, and google apps if they have an Android phone.
That will continue to be true no matter how much you nerdrage against them. Get used to it.
Burglars aren't likely to be in your Circles on Google+. (And if they are, you deserve any thing they get).
But by the same token, simple notes work fine. Anyone could write such an app. Oh, wait, someone already did.
Why does Google have to know what you lend out?
So they can tell your mooching friends where they can borrow something?
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
I would never share anything with my friends without letting the NSA know.
I don't think GC would appreciate being associated with this unless it was to make fun of the people that are using it.
If by first collaborate you mean the first to fight the requests and release the number of requests to the public then yes. There is also a huge difference between the potential to use a power for evil and actually doing it. They ain't perfect but they're miles better than *all* of their competitors, explaining the FUD spread by ACs like you over the last few years.
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.
...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."
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. $23.07. Sign here.
The only thing better than stupid opinions people express on Yelp is having my own personal Yelp where people write their idiotic opinions about my house and possessions.
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
The same sort of people who accept join/friend requests from all sorts of people they don't actually know on their social media sites.
On the other side, they are called "marks."
Pretending to give a shit about your privacy.
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".
I accept "friend" requests from anyone -- as a teacher/lecturer/author/poet/musician, I figure people I don't know are people who have been to one of my classes or performances.
But when I choose what I share on Twitter or FB, I keep in mind that many "friends" there are strangers. I share only what I want to publish publicly.
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
They shut down money sinks, and are opening up potential new revenue streams. That's how business keeps moving forward. The reason for the closings and new launches is the same - profit.
They had to explain it to the users without alienating users. "Your service that you like costs us too much money and isn't popular enough to monetize" doesn't have that snazzy ring to it.
Google seems very much in control of themselves, outside of the various FTC probes they will be subjected to since they are trying to monopolize all data everywhere, as the stretch goal.
And the funny thing is that there are all these alternatives out there. If you really cannot live without commercial systems, at least spread out the information among several of them that are owned by different companies. Or you can just use something like DuckDuckGo as your search engine, French DailyMotion for videos, rent your own website/e-mail and get your own domain. You can use that system to put files on the "cloud" with old-fashioned FTP.
Those are very easy things to do, even if they are not flashy as using the latest Google Drive, etc.
No, he said "stuff". C'mon, dude, the title of the fucking album is A Place for My Stuff . Have some respect and don't misquote Carlin:
Tom Swiss | the infamous tms | my blog
You cannot wash away blood with blood
Or you can just use something like [...] French DailyMotion for videos
Sure, now show me the tool that converts all the embedded YouTube videos and YouTube video links to their DailyMotion equivalents.
You can use that system to put files on the "cloud" with old-fashioned FTP.
That is terrible advice. Try sending your technologically challenged friends a file from your phone that only they can open, on their phone, using old-fashioned FTP. Even if you manage to somehow do it, it will be such a huge pain in the ass that you'll probably never do it again.
Personally, I see BitTorrent Sync (-like solutions) combined with proper upstream bandwidth going a long way.
I'm not saying one shouldn't look for alternatives, just that it isn't always as doable and easy as you imply.
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.
Techno-hipster cries "wolf". Yawn.
Well, Google was third on the list in one of the diagrams, not first. And Google doesn't collaborate with the NSA other than manually responding to national security letters, which they are required to do by law.
I've been inside the Google datacenters, for weeks at a time, including the CCNRs (network hardware center). There is no way that NSA has direct access to Google, unless there was a conspiracy involving thousands of people, including me.
The only information that Google cares about is what you in the market for.
But, I work for Google. So, maybe I'm lying. On the other hand, you are an anonymous coward with no real information. All you have it a tinfoil hat.