Tag: google
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In chaos there is opportunity (part 11 of Diversity and Google+)
I’m flashing! Back in 2006, the Ad Astra project proposed a strategy for Microsoft to outflank Google by leveraging its employee base and social technologies. One of the key insights: social computing technologies allow a company to tap into the combined energy of employees and their networks. This can be a huge asset — and…
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The Trend is in the Wrong Direction: Reflections on the Field Trial (part 10 of Diversity and Google+)
Also published on We Get Google Plus, Diaspora *, and G+ For the past 12 weeks we’ve been in field trial, and during that time we’ve listened and learned a great deal. We’re nowhere near done, but with the improvements we’ve made so far we’re ready to move from field trial to beta, and introduce…
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Talk about a hostile environment (part 9 of Google+ and Diversity)
also posted on G+ and on Diaspora* I feel very let down by Google’s behavior. I had hoped to escape the heavy-handedness that is Facebook, but that is not to be. I’ll have a presence here; I have to, professionally. But the joy is gone. — Kathy Gill, Google+ As An Identity Service Is Bait…
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4 Things Diaspora* can learn from Google+
Part 2 of A crucial time for Diaspora* This weekend I received an invitation through Facebook to join Diaspora. I had tried to join Diaspora last year when I learned about their Kickstarter success while writing my book on crowdsourcing, but I couldn’t get in. So of course I was curious and went immediately to…
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What Diaspora (and everybody else) can learn from Google+ (DRAFT)
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Booberday: Google+ and Diversity, part 8
Summary: it’s a “share pictures of your cleavage because of… breast cancer! yeah!†meme. That meta-meme is potent, folks. Got something you want people to do? Claim it’s about preventing or ameliorating or alerting or grieving breast cancer. You are now the untouchable saviour. The end. — Mary, on Geek Feminism A surprising number of…
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What can Diaspora* learn from Google+?
At last year’s Blue Hat conference, I gave a short talk on What Diaspora* can learn from Microsoft.  Now, I’d like to do the same kind of analysis with Google+. Ten weeks into the G+ experiment, what are the key learnings for a privacy-friendly distributed social network. Here’s a few early thoughts. Diaspora’s on…
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Still a Ways to Go: the Suggested Users List (part 7 of Diversity and Google+)
Google Plus launched a “suggested users†list yesterday. I’m not on it, and I bet you aren’t either, particularly if you’re an educator — because, well, there aren’t any educators on the list. — Audrey Watters, Personal Learning Networks and the Google+ “Suggested Users” list The Google Suggested User List reads like the typical San…
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Anxious Masculinity Under Threat: Google+ and Diversity, part 6
Google+’s naming policy isn’t failing because it’s poorly implemented, or because Google’s enforcement team is stupid. It’s failing because what they’re trying to do is (1) impossible, and (2) antisocial. — Bob Blakley, Google+ Can Be a Social Network Or The Name Police — Not Both, Gartner Blog Network I wonder what folks at Google…
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The double bind of oppression: Google+ and Diversity, part 5
Ever since it launched, Ive spent most of my online time on Google+, and so far am very impressed from both the software engineering and business strategy perspectives. I think it’s on track to be a big success, so expect me to be talking about it a lot. — me, in A work in progress,…
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Why it Matters: Google+ and Diversity, part 2
Over the past 50 hours I’ve lost a lot of friends here, and all of my transgender friends and family and all the older gay activists I was sharing with have all quietly mothballed their accounts. They can’t have their “real” names out there – they work with human rights organizations and do HIV/AIDS activism,…
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Google+ and diversity: A Work in Progress (part 1)
With over ten million users in just two weeks, and plenty of rave reviews, Google’s latest foray into social networking is off to a great start. Ever since it launched, I’ve spent most of my online time on Google+, and so far am very impressed from both the software engineering and business strategy perspectives. I…
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Once again Open for Questions: the pilot continues
Round two of change.gov’s Open for Questions is up. Not a lot of details … last time, it was open for about three days, and there were brief answers to the top five questions, and a more detailed post and video on at least one topic (bailout transparency). Dan McSwain, on the change.gov blog, describes…
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Open for Questions at change.gov: What about privacy?
The Obama transition team’s Open for Questions pilot last week went extremely well for a first attempt. Combined with all the other promising things Micah Sifry discusses in Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team, it seems to me that the Obama administration is on track for some effective ways of leveraging cognitive diversity and…
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Microsoft/Yahoo! roundup
Note: this thread summarizes what others are thinking, and my reactions. My opinion on the potential acquisition is here — and along with many others’, on MiniMSFT. Andy Borowitz has the biggest news: Obama to buy Yahoo! Other than that … Microsoft has been fined a record €899 million ($1.4 billion) for defying the EU’s…