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Old 01-29-2012, 08:57 AM   #106
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HA!

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Proves that my process of always posting false info in every profile I fill out has worked.....
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Old 01-29-2012, 10:00 PM   #107
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HA!



Proves that my process of always posting false info in every profile I fill out has worked.....
Well sure. We all know old people are liars.
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Old 01-29-2012, 10:06 PM   #108
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Well sure. We all know old people are liars.
Of course they are. Look at Lamplighter! Perfect example.
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Old 01-30-2012, 01:55 PM   #109
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Of course they are. Look at Lamplighter! Perfect example.
You have a small, mean spirit, Merc.
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Old 02-10-2012, 05:37 PM   #110
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A new CEO takes over the business, feels he must do something different to distinguish himself.
I predict Larry Page will cause Google to jump the shark...

NY Times
David Streit
2/9/12

An ‘Entertainment Device’ Is Expected From Google

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SAN FRANCISCO — Google is developing a home entertainment device,
according to people with knowledge of the company’s plans,
in a move that would bring it more broadly into consumer electronics.

The device, which exists as a prototype and will eventually be sold as a branded
item to consumers, is the company’s most significant venture into hardware.
While the initial purpose of the device will be for streaming music,
the eventual use could be much wider.<snip>

Larry Page, who last year took the reins of the company he co-founded,
has been intent on moving into hardware.
The entertainment device has been in the works for more than a year,
before Google made a $12.5 billion deal to buy the handset maker Motorola Mobility,
the most likely manufacturer of the device. That acquisition is likely to close next week.
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Old 02-29-2012, 04:07 PM   #111
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Lose it or Google will use it...

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February 29, 2012
Clock counts down as Google privacy change looms
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For the congenital procrastinators out there
--and yes, you know who you are--don't complain about not being warned.

In less than 24 hours, Google will hit the switch and start linking your data
across the company's e-mail, video, social-networking, and other services.
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Old 02-29-2012, 04:12 PM   #112
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Since my history is deleted each time I log off, there is apparently nothing for me to do.
Do people still save their search histories? Do you?
Out of curiosity - If so, Why?
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Old 02-29-2012, 04:23 PM   #113
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Do you have a G-mail account, or G+, or YouTube, or Documents, or Picasa, or Calendar, or .... ?
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Old 02-29-2012, 04:40 PM   #114
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Old 02-29-2012, 05:34 PM   #115
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yes. The gmail account has already been bastardized. That happened a long time ago. The ads that come up that are so "personalized.
They're already reading every email.
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Old 03-06-2012, 11:21 AM   #116
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The sheer amount of data that Google collects bothers me, even though I really like their products. Google Chrome is the best browser for me, that I have used, and now I have everything set up the way I like I really can't be bothered to get a new browser.

Anyway, it really sucks that they would do that to your daughter. If there's an age limit then they should make it clear that there's an age limit. There's a lot of stuff they don't make all that clear...
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Old 03-07-2012, 10:08 PM   #117
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The sheer amount of data that Google collects bothers me, even though I really like their products.
Do you file taxes electronically? Then that company owns information on your tax return. If concerned about something as trivial as Google, then be far more concerned about what your bank shares with others.

How much about you is routinely sold for profit? Go to annualcreditreport.com to learn what others routinely know about you. What Google knows is trivial.

BTW, that is not freecreditreport.com - something that can end up costing money if not careful.
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Old 03-07-2012, 10:15 PM   #118
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One of the rules of the internet is that any site with "free" in it will try to take your money.
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Old 03-12-2012, 08:39 AM   #119
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Google keeps calling me fat. I keep getting ads for some plus size clothing company called The Woman Within. Which is offensive because it implies that if you're overweight your 'woman' is 'within'...way 'within', not 'without.' Also the models are those 'plus-size' models who aren't really 'plus-size' making you think if you buy their clothes you will look 'un-plus-size' like the real 'woman within.'

WTF Google? Are you looking at me, or did you arrive at this conclusion because that one time I told someone to bite my big fat ass?

Google is hard on my self-esteem. Google needs to rethink their plan. Google can bite my big fat ass.
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Old 03-14-2012, 06:29 PM   #120
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The Exec from Goldman-Sachs is making news, and so
the news media is picking up on another story today by
James Whittaker, a well known Exec who left Google recently.

It's worth reading the entire blog, but here are some snips.

JW on Tech
Why I left Google
13 Mar 2012

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Ok, I relent. Everyone wants to know why I left and
answering individually isn’t scaling so here it is, laid out in its long form.
Read a little (I get to the punch line in the 3rd paragraph) or read it all.
But a warning in advance: there is no drama here, no tell-all, no former colleagues bashed
and nothing more than you couldn’t already surmise from what’s happening
in the press these days surrounding Google and its attitudes toward user privacy and software developers.
This is simply a more personal telling.<snip>

It turns out that there was one place where the Google innovation machine faltered
and that one place mattered a lot: competing with Facebook.
Informal efforts produced a couple of antisocial dogs in Wave and Buzz.
Orkut never caught on outside Brazil. Like the proverbial hare confident enough
in its lead to risk a brief nap, Google awoke from its social dreaming
to find its front runner status in ads threatened.<snip>

Larry Page himself assumed command to right this wrong.
Social became state-owned, a corporate mandate called Google+.
It was an ominous name invoking the feeling that Google alone wasn’t enough.
Search had to be social. Android had to be social. You Tube, once joyous
in their independence, had to be … well, you get the point.
Even worse was that innovation had to be social.
Ideas that failed to put Google+ at the center of the universe were a distraction.<snip>

The days of old Google hiring smart people and empowering them to invent the future was gone.
The new Google knew beyond doubt what the future should look like.
Employees had gotten it wrong and corporate intervention would set it right again.<snip>

As it turned out, sharing was not broken. Sharing was working fine and dandy,
Google just wasn’t part of it. People were sharing all around us and seemed quite happy.
A user exodus from Facebook never materialized.
I couldn’t even get my own teenage daughter to look at Google+ twice,
“social isn’t a product,” she told me after I gave her a demo,
“social is people and the people are on Facebook.”
Google was the rich kid who, after having discovered he wasn’t invited
to the party, built his own party in retaliation.
The fact that no one came to Google’s party became the elephant in the room.<snip>

Perhaps Google is right. Perhaps the future lies in learning
as much about people’s personal lives as possible.
Perhaps Google is a better judge of when I should call my mom
and that my life would be better if I shopped that Nordstrom sale.
Perhaps if they nag me enough about all that open time on my*calendar
I’ll work out more often. Perhaps if they offer an ad for a divorce lawyer because
I am writing an email about my 14 year old son breaking up with his girlfriend
I’ll appreciate that ad enough to end my own marriage.
Or perhaps I’ll figure all this stuff out on my own.

The old Google was a great place to work. The new one?
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