Complaints mount over Google+ account deletions
July 26, 2011 by admin
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An issue that had simmered for several weeks boiled over this weekend, as Google apparently accelerated deletions of Google+ accounts over the site`s requirement that members use their real names.
Google+ members started complaining about this situation about a week after Google launched the social networking site in late June, and over the past three weeks, various Google officials have addressed the issue.
For example, on July 11, Google+ Community Manager Natalie Villalobos tackled the complaints in the site`s official discussion forum, reiterating the policy and explaining the process for appealing a deletion.
Still, the gripes have continued flowing into the official Google+ discussion board and in other forums like Twitter and personal blogs, reaching a crescendo this weekend when Google zapped the accounts of some high-profile users, as ZDNet blogger Violet Blue reported.
The complaints fall into two categories. There is one group of affected users who claim they`re using their real names, and apparently got their Google+ account deleted because they have unconventional names or their names contain foreign-language characters or letters.
Then there is another camp of people who want to use a pseudonym because they don`t want to reveal their real name for privacy reasons.
Asked for comment, a Google spokeswoman said via e-mail that Google Profiles are designed to be public Web pages whose purpose is to “help connect and find real people in the real world.”
“By providing your common name, you will be assisting all people you know — friends, family members, classmates, co-workers, and other acquaintances — in finding and creating a connection with the right person online,” she wrote.
The controversy echoes a concurrent one with public figures and companies that have set up Google+ business profiles, which currently are forbidden and which Google is also deleting. Google hopes to allow business profiles at some point in the coming months.
There are currently about 20 million Google+ members. The service is in a limited beta trial and members can only join if they are invited by Google or by existing members.
Google+ is one of the company`s most important projects. After a series of misfires in the social networking space, Google has high hopes that Google+ will finally let the company give Facebook a run for its money.
Google maintains that Google+`s content sharing features and privacy settings are better and easier to use than Facebook`s, and that this will prompt a massive defection of Facebook users.
For now, Facebook remains by far the most popular social networking site in the world with 750 million members and counting.
Courtesy: Computer World
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And the Facebook lives on
July 26, 2011 by admin
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MANILA, Philippines — Google said more than 20 million Internet users have joined Google+, the search giant’s latest foray (and apparently, also the company’s most successful yet) into the social networking market.
I also noticed some of my Facebook friends were quite excited about receiving their invites and creating their Google+ accounts. (I got hold of a Google+ invitation during the later part of the Web site’s first week of beta.)
Some of them were even making lots of noise about the supposed “superiority” of Google+’s privacy and security features over those of their former favorite networking site. And who can blame them? After all, there have been lots of media reports about Facebook’s shortcomings in these departments.
Most people who despise Facebook, even those who begin their days with a peek or two at the world’s currently largest social network to check on their friends’ status updates and other posts, say they do so because of the site’s user-unfriendly approach to privacy and security. A significant portion of these people also say that Facebook tends to dumb its users down.
There is no doubt that Google has finally got what it needs to take on Facebook in the networking world. Capturing 20 million users in a couple of weeks is no minor feat. Most observers believe that as Google+ fine-tunes its features and platforms, and allow users to more easily invite their friends over, its user base will explode.
Perhaps, it might be on its way to toppling Facebook from its perch.
Something, however, tells me that most Facebook users will stick around Zuckerberg’s neighborhood.
Online Privacy and Social Networks
A study by graduate students at the University of California in Berkeley revealed that although most Facebook users say they are not comfortable with how the Web site and third-party applications use their personal information, their actual behavior when using the networking site.
About 90 percent of those who participated in the study said they disagree with Facebook’s privacy and security policies. Yet, even those who are “more knowledgeable” about online security said they are using those third-party apps, such as online games.
I wonder if those Facebook users who are now bashing Zuckerberg’s online kingdom and are claiming to have found their social networking nirvana via Google+ are really serious about leaving Facebook behind.
Microsoft’s Strong 4th Quarter
What is with these IT market observers?
Microsoft posted strong figures with its fourth-quarter financial report, showing gains in operating income, net income, and diluted earnings per share, and all these so-called analysts focused on the 1% drop in the software giant’s revenue from its Windows platform.
Microsoft earned $17.37 billion during the quarter and $69.94 billion for the fiscal year.
The company earned almost $70 billion, and some people are predicting Microsoft’s ultimate demise based on that 1% decline in Windows revenue. I wonder what drugs these people are ingesting.
That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.