Google will soon change its privacy policies and will show us a new look.
The move is already creating discussion at the European level and there were formulated several calls for investigating seriously the implications.
For those keen to get ready with a relatively clean Google history, this tutorial may help.
What really makes me sad is that for various commercial aims - which I understand and sometimes I am also using on a daily working basis - Internet is becoming more a business than a way to enjoy expanded possibilities for knowledge.
I just was reminded this morning how lame are Google's policies in terms of promotion and development of its products. Take, for example, Google+ which was joined rapidly by millions, shortly after launch only because it was a brand made by Google, but whose development was neglected. The development strategies of this company are very slow and relatively reluctant in my opinion. When you have such a brand, you are bold to engage your customers.
Anyway, from tomorrow on, get ready for changes.
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Showing posts with label Google+. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Google, to promote high-quality sites
Google announced a change of perspective in promoting the blogs and sites, by focusing more on the content than on other "mathematical" aspects - as frequence and number of posts...For me, it is nothing revolutionary, but a welcomed returned to the brains' normality.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Downloadable links
Today, I realized that I don't have any idea at all about how to set up a PDF or, in general, a .doc for being downloaded on a website. First, I thought it is easy to find an appropriate link at the gadget section. It was not the case - at least for the blogger version I am using currently.
As usual, the last solution was to ask my reliable friend and partner Google.
From a website to another and from a question to another I arrived to www.docstoc.com. Here, you can create an account, upload your document and the following link can be posted on your blog for your readers. They have full access to your book or open document.
As my publishing - online and book writing activity - will impressively increase in the following days, weeks and months, I am looking forward for new tips and trustworthy websites.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Mister Wong and me
While trying to fight with the WordPress blog settings - this is the newest entry in my always expanding media empire, and will share more about this soon - I discovered Mister Wong. What it is the connection: as I am trying to build a blog hosted by a German website, this Mister was recommended as a link to be used for sharing the latest updates. By curiosity, went on Google for a complex search and was happy to get in touch with the German site for social bookmarking. You can save all your favorite websites to your personal account and share it with other people from your network. The site is a direct competitor to del.icio.us and have the advantage of focusing exclusively on the German speaking realm. Recently, there were launched versions in Russian and Chinese. Equally, you can benefit of mobile support, accessing your account and saving your links of interest directly from your cellphone.
You can connect via icq, Skype, Yahoo, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, to access a FreeDigital Library. As privacy is a permanent matter of concern in Germany, the site is offering you the possibility to chose if you want to have your profile private or/and public. Also, you can access a Free Digital Library.
I am wondering if it is any similar website in French - as my blog I will start soon - when WordPress will be kind enough to share its secrets with me?
Monday, December 6, 2010
Six Social Media Trends
Image via CrunchBaseThe last weeks of 2010: time for evaluations and predictions.
Here is one of them, about Six Social Media Trends.
As for me, I will bet a lot on Foursquare like networks, in terms of increasing profits and creating content and targeted relationships. In terms of innovation, I am sure there will be a couple of small but long term ideas that will orient the more and more intricated networks for turning them into smart tools - for consumers and users and companies - taking into account the feed-back offered by the users themselves. I am curious what Google will offer in this respect.
Here is another interesting article I've read today, about the limits of the Facebook-based activism, by Malcom Galdwell. All we need: people able to use the content and the opportunity of the network. The 2.0 citizen is on the run for the moment.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Lecture for the week-end: The Google book
20 things I learned about browsers and the web - a very funny week-end book, from Google.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Facebook messaging
Image by Getty Images via @daylifeMy impressions, as an intensive user of Facebook:I watched yesterday live the Facebook conference from Palo Alto, for announcing the new e-mail social platform. The persons with expertise in the industry already started giving their opinion on the limits and advantages of this new capabilities added to the social platform.
- The idea to develop the e-mail platform is welcomed. I would need to be able to better organize my e-mail system from Facebook in folders, preferences, categories. I have friends with contacts only on Facebook, and I would like to communicate with them directly on this social platform, instead switching to the usual e-mail.
- I didn't understand very clear the privacy setting for this application. How secure is, for example, the system, for preventing hacking. This new unified formula might be a paradise for the hackers. I don't have all my contacts on the same e-mail, but in the case of Facebook, I could have workmates, family, friends, acquaintances, VIPs. For a hacker, this is opening impressive perspectives on a complex network.
Most probably, there will be introduced other changes and new features once the system will continue to be tested. Don't know if it is good or bad, I would expect more attention for the privacy aspects.
Monday, November 15, 2010
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Apple vs. Google
Mirror, mirror in the wall, who's the media's favorite tech company in the world? And the winner is...Apple. At least by now.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Ask.com is dead!
Image via WikipediaJeeves, your favorite butler, is nothing more than a good memory of the times when Internet started to enter our lives, little by little. My first experience with the net dates back in 1996 when I had my first job and my first e-mail address, on hotmail, an address that I still have and use once the week. I needed Jeeves for various documentations for my articles, but not extensively as I am doing today. Practically, when I need to write something, a journalistic product, I spend half of the time searching online and the rest writing. And I don't have doubts that the journalistic quality of the works I wrote in late 1990s were inferior to what I am doing now. In some respects, I believe that it is rather the opposite. But, as for the resources themselves, I cannot but be happy living at the beginning of the 21st century and having the occasion to meet Mr. Jeeves.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Zemanta
Image by Helder da Rocha via FlickrMy biggest discovery for today is Zemanta, which I started to use extensively for all my blogs. An amazing tool to add content to your blog, pictures and recommended links about the topics you are covering in your post. If your imagination and creativity are low, Zemanta is also offering the opportunity to explore a data bank with possible subjects to write about.
After almost four years of blogging, I am still waiting - enthusiastically, of course - for the moment when my writing products will go beyond the pleasure of writing and upgrade to a very professional level. While waiting, I am improving as much as I can.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Google Voice for writers
In many respects, Skype failed to turn into the must-have for businesses, being rather used mostly for person-on-person communications/or, in some cases, for a lot of spams of various kinds. Now, Google is challenging a bit the market with Google Voice in a very multifunctional way (the demo is a very good mix between description and creativity). In fact, I am more and more convinced that practical insights and creative thinking are more and more indispensable for our professional success, either we are exclusively business-oriented or with a humanist/not necessarily for profit profile. Starting and restarting again, some of the main treats of our world.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Friday, August 14, 2009
Google and knowledge
an antinomic couple?
Should we fear that Internet will kill the "true" knowledge? I don't think Internet in itself is the big issue we should worry about. It is, in fact, a huge, virtual library with everything you never dream it could be found.
Better, we should put under close scrutiny the education systems in themselves, and the ways in which the knowledge it is distributed. For a long time, the focus was on facts, now, we should mostly focused on how to use facts.
My choice is somewhere in-between: I know very well the system focused on facts, facts, facts. When, for example, you have to learn by heart - not by mind - long poetries, without having any idea about what it is all about, because you don't have time to think. In the same time, searching the Internet without clear criteria about what you are looking for, in terms of being able to make your own choices among thousand of results, it is problematic. Our capacity to know it is extremely limited, in comparison with the enormous volume of knowledge. But, a "voie royale" should be the pure desire of knowing and knowing and knowing.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Medical records - on line?
Risks and opportunities. It is obvious that the on-line system cannot avoid the health-care system. But, it is not easy: you need trainings with the medical staff - from the technical aspects to purely communications ones. For example, how to be able to communicate, to use on-line portals and offer more than a simple medical service, but also a friendly environment, fit to the requirement of a new emerging generation of patients - more informed, but equally possible victims of the overinformation (think about the big number of sites where people not with a medical qualification are giving advices who are took into account, including about pharmacological self-treatment. And on-line is a place as well for miraculous healings and charlatans). The most important is privacy and data security. Ethical data management.
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