Sounds good to me! I also tell Google where I want to go on the internet, and let them remember where I've been so I don't have to. And I'm more than okay will ALL of this because what's private to me is and will always be private. And that, my friend, is the secret love I harbor for...
Oh, I totally almost gave it away.
Rex Dixon
· 2 years ago
Google will own the internet by 2017. :) It's a joke, but at the rate they are going???? Interesting as they have 10 more years to accomplish that.
Rex
The Pageman
· 2 years ago
1. You can use Vimeo instead of YouTube - it uploads faster than YouTube anyway.
2. Use Flickr for your pictures
3. Get a swissmail.org secure email account for your sensitive email.
4. Use SlideShare for your powerpoint presentations
- Am I online? This could come from GTalk, if it wasn't so poor.
- Where am I? Loki.com does a surprisingly good job of locating me. My home location in Google Maps is another hint.
- What's my latest thought? What am I doing right now? Twitter's for sale. Will Google buy it?
- Who are my friends and followers? This is a big missing piece. Orkut-Google ID integration provides one source, but who uses Orkut any more?
And that really points up a whole area that Google ignores which is particularly important given the focus of this blog. Where's the community? I want to not just publish all the stuff above for my friends to read, but also to aggregate where all my friends are at. This comes down to two key games that people play on the net. - "Hey, look at this!" - "What are my friends doing?" Does Google do anything to support these two? Or is it all a one way flow of information to Google to help them make more money?
Anon
· 2 years ago
You're forgetting that AdSense is displayed on a lot of sites. All Google needs is to connect the AdSense-cookie to the other Google-cookies, and they know what sites you browse.
engogues
· 2 years ago
What is most disturbing is that all of this information, once available, can be subpoenaed by governments all around the world, some of which are not the most respectful in terms of personal privacy. Once you build a machine that collects and aggregates personal information it is only a matter of time until it will be used by someone with unethical motives.
What I fail to understand is how those that are blindly building the machine believe they will be able to recuse themselves from the historical reponsibility they carry for the abuses that will undoubtfully occur. It borders on naive.
Anonymous
· 2 years ago
In terms of what they know, it may already be too late. They already know too much. Machine is already very big.
Dilemma. It is just so much more convenient and useful to use google products than to use the products of other companies. Better. Faster. More reliable. Single sign on. But, they are starting to own me.
60 in 3
· 2 years ago
It seems that I recall hearing comments like this about Microsoft not too long ago. If you're worried about it, switch to other platforms. There are other tools available for pretty much all of these functions.
Gal
Diego Cox
· 2 years ago
What will the next Google Acquisition?
Jimmy
· 2 years ago
I feel your pain, Adam. I wrote an article on centernetworks 2 weeks ago about the very same thing. The doubleclick acquisition spoofed me.
Still google free, btw.
Matt_
· 2 years ago
I dont mind the fact that Google knows pretty much everything I do online (and possibly off-line) and they dont really make it a secret they are collecting data to sell ads around my click-stream
Irakli Nadareishvili
· 2 years ago
Well, I do mind, but then - what can you do? Live without Google? :) Naaah
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· 2 years ago
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Oh, I totally almost gave it away.
Rex
2. Use Flickr for your pictures
3. Get a swissmail.org secure email account for your sensitive email.
4. Use SlideShare for your powerpoint presentations
5. Blog somewhere else other than Blogger.com :)
- Am I online? This could come from GTalk, if it wasn't so poor.
- Where am I? Loki.com does a surprisingly good job of locating me. My home location in Google Maps is another hint.
- What's my latest thought? What am I doing right now? Twitter's for sale. Will Google buy it?
- Who are my friends and followers? This is a big missing piece. Orkut-Google ID integration provides one source, but who uses Orkut any more?
And that really points up a whole area that Google ignores which is particularly important given the focus of this blog. Where's the community? I want to not just publish all the stuff above for my friends to read, but also to aggregate where all my friends are at. This comes down to two key games that people play on the net.
- "Hey, look at this!"
- "What are my friends doing?"
Does Google do anything to support these two? Or is it all a one way flow of information to Google to help them make more money?
What I fail to understand is how those that are blindly building the machine believe they will be able to recuse themselves from the historical reponsibility they carry for the abuses that will undoubtfully occur. It borders on naive.
Dilemma.
It is just so much more convenient and useful to use google products than to use the products of other companies. Better. Faster. More reliable. Single sign on. But, they are starting to own me.
Gal
Still google free, btw.