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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/google-didnt-just-acquire-nest-annexed-whole-new-territory/
I reckon Leonard Cohen predicted it all.
Tower of Song
...now, you can that I've grown bitter, but of this you may be sure: The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor ...
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http://www.wired.com/opinion/2014/01/google-didnt-just-acquire-nest-annexed-whole-new-territory/
I'm struggling to understand just how farsighted Google are if they consider acquiring what appears to be a company with benign interests fits with their own, although I have just read the other Wired article mentioned in this one so follow it a bit better. From the comments;
To take it a step further, how many people read their End User License Agreements, Terms of Service, or App Permissions when installing software or apps? Yet they complain when they read a story online that an app has access to information they agreed to give it access to.
I've certainly begun to with apps, thanks to a recent post on a thread here complaining about Facebook's permissions. The extent of its requests went far beyond what I imagine most people want from the app itself. Yesterday I was all set to install the LinkedIn app before I read the permissions and noted the identical and unacceptable level to that of Facebook's, so thought better of it.
Seems to me people expect a specific thing from a service, which pales into insignificance to that which the company receives in return but whose scale we largely accept. Mobile devices are becoming ever more like tagging devices for polite society, which is to exploit their potential well beyond their basic use. By companies getting so much reward from devices there's, in some cases, no absolute reason to own makes me think the unavoidable nature of home utilities being similarly milked some years down the line will reap even greater invasive returns.
Unless there's nothing sinister about it, of course...
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Google breaking down yesterday was scary.
Considering how reliant I and many others are on google, for personal and business communications. Seems to negate the initial idea of the internet being a robust system where communications can continue even when ken nodes are knocked out. I suppose now that big business, governments and a small number of ISPs control the whole show we need a meta-internet to achieve that same function.
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Is Google alerts still working for anyone?
I haven't had one through for months, used to get a few a week, I have about 30 searches set up in alerts, all for 'discussions' I wonder is now that feature has been retired to the back room, whether the alerts function no longer works with it.
edit: this is handy: http://www.hotukdeals.com/misc/a-google-tip-how-bring-back-discussions-search-option-s-really-missing-1806537
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They go ogling everything.
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http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/334.pdf
Fascinating reading, although I understand little of the detail. But taken in hindsight, well;
So we are optimistic that our centralized web search engine architecture will improve in its ability to cover the pertinent text information over time and that there is a bright future for search.
couldn't have closed their paper any better.
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http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27631001
Right to be forgotten.
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Stop Google Glass using nearby WiFi
http://www.wired.com/2014/06/find-and-ban-glassholes-with-this-artists-google-glass-detector/
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