• Düsseldorf, Deutschland
Google backslides on federated instant messaging, on purpose?
So, they not only fuck around with Reader, they also fuck around with Google Talk.
Yes, the two Google services I use the most.
• Köln, Deutschland
• Köln, Deutschland
(Gee, thanks, Google.)
• Cologne, Germany
“Wie man eine Google Penalty erkennt und wie man das Problem löst.”
Von so SEO-Gedöns bekomme ich ja Pickel, aber wenn’s die Lara schreibt, hat es sicher Hand und Fuss.
The sad, sad story of what Google Reader used to be and how the most interesting feature got killed – much to everybody’s consternation. Including mine.
Facebook is alive, it’s made of living things. Without those lives within the digital communications platform, there is no Facebook. On the other hand, Google is dead. Google operates on the traces left by living things, but not on the entities themselves. It’s the footprints in the sand that Google uses to predict the next set of footprints in the sand.
Googleheimer – Markus rantet und fasst die aktuellen Probleme mit/für Google zusammen.
Does it really need to be explained why all this is bad? The courts have spent centuries determining reasonable limits of free speech in public settings: we don’t need private corporations absorbing the public sphere, providing governments and themselves easy mechanisms to marginalize anyone unwilling or unable to play nice inside the walled gardens.
Rob Beschizza – Why we shouldn’t let Google (or anyone else) claim their private services are public spaces
They went ahead and did it. Bastards. I don’t know anybody who likes that change.
Are there any alternatives?
We haven’t quite seen yet what exactly is going to happen with the redesign of the Google Reader but that blogpost did not look good at all and people are rightfully unhappy about it. It sure looks like Google Reader has to pay the strategy tax and get rid of features in the hope to lure people to use Google+.
And yes, I am a bit worried. Google Reader is by a far margin my most used site on the web.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde