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Google Stars Extension For Chrome Leaks: Hands On
An anonymous reader writes "We've known for a while now that Google is testing a new favoriting service called Google Stars, aimed at helping users save, share, and organize Web content. This is largely due to multiple leaks, detailing features as well as showing off the interface in a video and screenshots. Today, Google+ user Florian Kiersch, who has done the majority of the digging behind the service, has leaked the Google Stars extension for Google Chrome."
Thank you for being a frog.
Travel down the road and back in the hat again.
Your heart is true, you're a pal and a cosmonaut.
And if you threw a party, invited everyone you knew.
You would see the biggest hat would be from me
and the card attached would say, thank you for being a frog.
mmmm, dog food
So its like StumbleUpon?
Don't we already have a few dozen clones of that? What's the benefit other than explicitly giving Google (and advertisers) your bookmark data?
I personally don't see the value in this. Even as an advertiser I don't see the value in it.
Does Google really expect me to believe that:
1: Someone uses Google+
2: Said Google+ "user" "leaked" this feature
3: This feature isn't just "+1" trash built into Chrome?
Stop trying to make Google+ be a thing.
Fuck the Beta. Fuck The Man. Fuck Dice.
BOYCOTT DICE!!!!
So it's like the start ratings ystem in XMarks?
OK.
My guess is that Google's main purpose behind Stars is to get closer to being a portal for everything people do on the web. There are three ways I can think of to access web content:
1. Use a search engine
2. Type directly into the address bar
3. Click on a "Favorites" item
Obviously, Google is a popular search engine, and so using a search engine often means using Google. Also, depending on the browser, typing into the address bar often also starts a web search, so that option also means using Google. However, at the moment, the Favorites feature is Google's rival, because it's a convenient way of accessing the web without having to use a search engine.
But with Google Stars, you can make your Favorites list searchable, and shareable... by using Google! Now every time you access anything on the web, you'll be doing a Google search to get there.
I was thinking very similarly, but will phrase it a bit differently.
Google has a "user", that has been repeatedly "leaking" information, and allowed that user to get more content for bigger "leaks"? I'm sure many users will fall for this gag, but anyone working in the tech field that believes this is a "leak" should retire and go work in less mentally challenging career.
-The wise argue that there are few absolutes, the fool argues that there are no probabilities.
If you want to save, share, and organize web content, try Scrapbook+ for Firefox. For recent versions of firefox, you have to drill down and install from the development channel, but it works fine.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
There used to be another Google service that let me save, share, and organize Web content...
Save, share, and organize bookmarks instead of RSS feeds.
Why isn't anybody talking about the actual subject: Memory leaks in Google Star?
Oh never mind, I think I get it now... ;-)
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