Comment Re:kml files? (Score 2, Informative) 271
it's clear on reading to me that since the inception of making available
it's clear on reading to me that since the inception of making available
my kingdom for a mod point!
I think they should turn all the pictures of you black and white. (or at least your profile pic)
your probably right, for mainstream media news stories anyway, most of the tweets would be pointless repeating.
but what about news that the mainstream media doesn't want you to hear?
for example, anti-olympic protesters at the upcoming games in Vancouver BC could use this to search for first hand accounts of the protests. i could see co-ordinators using this service to communicate with protestors in realtime to amplify and distribute virally what will be posted on sites like indymedia.org.
that is but one example, i can think of a lot more types of first person, accurate, original news that the likes of Reuters, CNN, NBC and Fox wouldn't like you to hear.
not that im saying thats good justification for enabling google to search tweets, that particular kingdom of retardedness can stay outta my search results please.
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Just like real banks!
I used to have OCD. now i have CDO, the letters are in alphabetical order LIKE THEY SHOULD BE!
how much is the right about of neck to put into the noose?
see, that's sorta the same problem with DRM, once you get to the neck, there is pretty much no going back.
no, it is valid, as it's aimed at the current google service.
the point of my post was basically to say that, trusting google to host your mission critical "waves", is just as insane as trusting gmail, or amazon S3 or any other hosted service to hold your mission critical information.
i'm specifically talking about businesses here. I happily use a gmail account for personal correspondence. I do not use gmail in my corporate office, as it doesn't make sense.
but what good would that do you, if it's an ever changing document, like a conversation between multiple people?
yes i know, did you read the last line of my post?
"it's cool technology, and now that it's being open sourced, it means feasibly you can run your own "waveserver" and mitigate the issues above somewhat."
running your own server would mitigate all those issues, and i think it's good that it's open sourced and available now so people can do this.
or the first line?
"a neat idea, for collaborative brainstorming or throwaway conversations perhaps, but i hope that nobody is planning on using this for any communication that is mission critical, in it's *current form* anyway."
by current form, i mean, hosted on googles waveservers.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky