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."

Comments

Is it the 1st of April yet?

[OneAhead]

They couldn't have chosen a more ironic name for it if they tried to. Or could they, /. ?

Re:Is it the 1st of April yet?

[Seumas]

I've given up on all stuff Google. I really just want one solid place to provide a good chunk of my services (so that it is all cohesive), but Google can't get their shit together. Things come and go overnight. They get abandoned. They make things very convoluted (Google Drive/Docs could not possibly have a worse interface and a shittier capability to sort/organize things -- want to easily find the size of a file in your google docs/drive? Good luck!).

All Google has done is proven themselves to throw too many things at the wall, abandon them quickly, and do them poorly. Once a big Google fan, I've come to realize that their big hits are less from the wisdom of Google and their engineers and more a result of simple probability. If you throw 500 things at the wall, two of them are inevitably *not* going to be total shit.

Re:Is it the 1st of April yet?

[goombah99]

They couldn't have chosen a more ironic name for it if they tried to. Or could they, /. ?

G-spot was taken I guess.

It seems like calling this google Mine, is going to cause havoc when people google the term Data Mining. I'm actually wondering if this might even have been the intent to cause obfuscation. They should have called it Google `Nuff Stuff Already or G-NSA for short, to really cover their tracks.

Not sure what I'm more excited about

[frovingslosh]

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.

Meh

[M0j0_j0j0]

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!"

Re:Meh

[Nerdfest]

I'll assume that since you're not an AC this is a serious complaint and not FUD. You can stop the "auto-backup" of all photos under Settings/Accounts/Google/Google+/Camera & Photos/Auto-Backup ... just set it to "Off". Here's hoping this doesn't get modded down as well. I've just about had it with the various FUD and astro-turfing campaigns going on right now.

Re:Meh

[swillden]

Settings/Accounts/Google/Google+/Camera & Photos/Auto-Backup ... just set it to "Off".

Which is the default, actually. If it's been uploading everything, it's because you explicitly told it to.

Not a bad idea

[onyxruby]

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.

Re:Not a bad idea

[astro]

I find this to be quite true. Though not entirely voluntarily,* I recently downsized from 25 years of built up possessions to almost nothing - a backpack and a couple of suitcases worth of belongings. It is absolutely liberating. Yes, there are some things I miss - but I don't think of it nearly as much as I would have thought. The freedom of not worrying about "things" is very real.

* I was relieved of many of my possessions in my divorce; I shed the rest of them moving to Europe after a lifetime in the USA.

what could go wrong

[Anonymous Coward]

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...

ISR

[rossdee]

In Soviet Russia Google mines YOU!

This is like a creepy social experiment

[water-and-sewer]

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.

Is it PRISM-compliant too?

[Anonymous Coward]

I would never share anything with my friends without letting the NSA know.

Carlin wouldn't approve

[papasui]

I don't think GC would appreciate being associated with this unless it was to make fun of the people that are using it.

Google's rules for three year olds:

[Hartree]

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.

Google Mine Correction Officer

[Time_Ngler]

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.

yes this is what I needed

[Trepidity]

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.

Also coming soon - Google Mime!

[Anonymous Coward]

Pretending to give a shit about your privacy.

Re:Google can't control themselves

[b4dc0d3r]

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.

Re:Carlin never said stuff

[Mr. Slippery]

[Carlin never said stuff, h]e 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.

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:

Actually, this is just a place for my stuff, ya know? That's all; a little place for my stuff. That's all I want, that's all you need in life, is a little place for your stuff, ya know? I can see it on your table, everybody's got a little place for their stuff. This is my stuff, that's your stuff, that'll be his stuff over there.
That's all you need in life, a little place for your stuff. That's all your house is- a place to keep your stuff. If you didn't have so much stuff, you wouldn't need a house. You could just walk around all the time.