The Glade 4.0

The policy is really aimed at businesses and celebrities, and preventing someone from impersonating someone or something they aren't.

If you register as Lebron James but aren't, that's a problem they don't want to deal with. The challenge comes in that there are many people with that name. It It also extends to nicknames, like "TheKing", "KingLebron", or in the case of businesses, "McDonalds" or "TheGoldenArches". How do you decide who gets these names?

The same thing applied to domain names and twitter and facebook profiles. A lot of people made a lot of money squatting on domain names when the Internet was first taking off.

Still do.

NPR's Andy Carvin asked Schmidt how Google justifies its names policy when it could put people at risk.

"He replied by saying that G+ was build [sic] primarily as an identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they're going to build future products that leverage that information," Carvin wrote in a Google+ post. "Regarding people who are concerned about their safety, he said G+ is completely optional. No one is forcing you to use it. It's obvious for people at risk if they use their real names, they shouldn't use G+."
Paraphrasing Schmidt's comments, Carvin wrote that the Google exec also said the Internet "would be better if we knew you were a real person rather than a dog or a fake person. Some people are just evil and we should be able to ID them and rank them downward."

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?

Mike Elgan is wrong and I'm tired of the anti-Facebook sentiment on Google+

Mike Elgan yesterday wrote that Facebook is the new Yahoo: https://plus.google.com/113117251731252 ... s1MjY4PPZP

That is absolutely wrong.

Here's why: Yahoo has never tried to be visionary since, well, they bought Flickr about eight years ago.

Since then no one at Yahoo can explain what they are or where they are going or how they are going to get there.

Everyone at Facebook can tell me a story about how they are building a new Internet identity system (see my "Game of Games" piece for more http://scobleizer.com/2011/09/11/the-ga ... ial-world/ ).

Some additional thoughts:

1. Microsoft built its business by being a fast follower. Windows was a poor copy of the Macintosh. Didn't matter. They kept at it until it got good enough with Windows 95. Then the whole world flipped. Then they kept copying. In 1996 some kids developed ICQ. First Microsoft tried to buy that, then, 24 months later they just copied it. Ended up with hundreds of millions of people on the copy.

2. Facebook has something Google+ doesn't have: noise controls. I could spend all day long explaining the new noise controls that they shipped this week, due to super lists. These are features Google+ DOES NOT HAVE YET and, so, if you think Facebook is just copying Google+ you are absolutely 100% wrong.

3. The #1 feature is "where are your friends." So far Google is way behind there. Facebook didn't copy Google+ there. Google, in fact, has copied Facebook in many many areas (including the lame 5,000 friend limit. Couldn't they have made it 4950? Or 6,000?)

4. The arrogance here is leading the community astray. You think that saying "Google is being copied by Facebook" is going to help Google+ to grow? Really? To me it looks like a bunch of losers who don't have any real-life friends and are the types I really don't want to spend every Saturday night talking about important (or not so important) topics with.

We are in the middle of a war between Google and Facebook. They WILL COPY EACH OTHER! Get over it. That's business. Apple copied Microsoft and Microsoft copied Apple and Apple copied Xerox (I'm speaking at the building where Steve Jobs copied a lot of things out of this morning, just to put a punctuation mark on it).

Silicon Valley was built on copying. Get over it. Let's celebrate the fact that 750 million people today have features they didn't have two months ago.

I want Google to copy Facebook's other features, including noise control. Facebook is easily 18 months ahead. Google, start up your copying machines to catch the heck up!

And, +Mike Elgan you are totally underestimating Facebook if you think they are the new Yahoo. That really was a ridiculous thing to write. Not even close. Yahoo doesn't even know why they should be copying Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg or where to start.

B) to be customized so that the main stream can present only selected followed people (i.e. just because I threw you in a circle doesn't mean I want your posts clogging up my stream...this means you, Felecia Day, Evil Hat, and Dresden characters)

FB updates dynamically for me.

Do you have your stream set to "Most Recent?"

Google only wants you to use your real name.

http://www.slashgear.com/google-names-n ... -25167268/

Do ever want to just grab someone and say...WTF is wrong with you?