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Google Trims Policy Number from 60 to 1

  Here is a letter I received from Google announcing a change in policy. Some privacy advocates are concerned about the change. No word yet as to how it conforms (or doesn’t conform) to the PIPEDAct here in Canada. This may be the integration I was predicting earlier. I am seeing this just as Facebook knows my preferences and delivers
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Google Places 2012

Google has a Place of Opportunity with Google+. When Will they Take it?

I did some lateral thinking about how the implementation of a social platform for Google+ can have some pretty far reaching impacts on the Google location services Earth. Here is what I was thinking. In the fall, Google announced that service reached 1 billion downloads of the Google Earth desktop client, the Google Earth browser plug-in and the Google Earth
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Dog in the Tub

Separating your Circles of Friends

These days it would not be a surprise to anyone if you have more than two or three accounts on a social network. Now the juggle comes in how to manage those different networks and how to keep grandma and your new beau separated. For Facebook, it is a little more of a pain as you have to subscribe the
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Hidden Identity

Thinking of Creating a Fake Google+ Account?

With the power of it’s search engine behind it, Google is making it harder to cheat about who you actually are – well in terms of your name anyway – on their new social platform Google+. This is an effort on part to stem the tide of spam accounts. Google’s user terms of service requires you to use your proper
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From Hubspot http://bit.ly/szGChF

10 Quick Facts About Google+

On January 19th, Google+ hit 90 million users. So a little focus on that platform is probably needed this week as mostly I have talked about Facebook. I really could not make the points that the title indicates any clearer, so am sharing a page from a great paper from HubSpot – How to Use Google+ for Business.

The final Mona Lisa ;)

Google+ Plus’ Photo Captioning, Cheezburger Style.

Google+ has added a photo-captioning tool similar to what you see on Cheezeburger. You know the photos – the ones with inspiratinal meme text overtop. Google programmer Colin McMillen posted on Google+ ”Today we’re rolling out a feature that makes it easier to add big, bold text on top of your photos. To try it out, drop a photo into the
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Google Protest of SOPA

A Day of Protest against Censorship.

As mentioned in a post yesterday, many sites are going dark or advocating protest against the SOPA bill in the US. This bill affects not only Americans, but others outside of the US, including here in Canada. If the bill is passed, it will lead to pressure on Ottawa to follow suit. Regardless of changes to any laws outside of
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Facebook, Yahoo! and Google Run afoul of Indian Ignorance

This week an Indian court has threatened to block sites with “offensive and objectionable” content, however they seem to be targeting Facebook, Yahoo and Google. I wonder if the folks over there even get what the web is. Justice Suresh Kai said that the three sites need to “develop a mechanism to keep a check and remove offensive and objectionable
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Google Doodle Nicolas Steno

Nicolas Steno gets a Google Doodle for his 374th.

Google home page celebrates Danish anatomist, geologist and Catholic Bishop Nicolas Steno with a Google doodle Wednesday in honor of his 376th birthday. The colourful layered art hints at his contribution to science. He is considered one of the founders of the branch of geology called Stratigraphy (a branch of geology, studies rock layers and layering, or stratification). It is
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