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YouTube Founders To Revamp Delicious->

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tekgoblin
tekgoblin writes "Chad Hurley and Steve Chen the original founders of YouTube have been looking for a new project. They have set their eyes on Delicious which was owned by Yahoo until recently.

Yahoo had planned on closing the site due to the lack of popularity as of late. The site was just lacking the ability to catch on to broader audiences, it was too focused.

“What we plan to do,” Mr. Hurley said in an interview here last week, “is try to introduce Delicious to the rest of the world.”"

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Desktops (Apple)

Apple Ends Security Updates for 5-Year-Old Macs->

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the JoshMeister
the JoshMeister writes "On Friday, Apple released Security Update 2011-005 for only Mac OS X v10.7 Lion and v10.6 Snow Leopard, both of which can only run on Intel-based Macs. This officially and quietly cuts off all users of G4 and G5-based Macs (some of which Apple was still selling less than 5 years ago) from ever receiving OS security updates again. Many Mac users are now left stranded with perfectly good hardware and an insecure operating system, and since Apple has neglected to warn users of Leopard and previous versions of Mac OS about the lack of updates, most of them will never know there is a problem."
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Comment: Well, actually... Re: Best Buy Discounts/Refunds (Score 1) 368

by the JoshMeister (#37156840) Attached to: HP TouchPad To Be Liquidated At Fire Sale Prices

According to Engadget, Best Buy won't offer discounts in U.S. stores. However, HP is supposedly offering refunds to those who paid the full $400. From the Engadget piece:

Well, it looks like American Best Buys won't be enjoying the same liquidation sale as our neighbors to the north. A couple of tipsters have reported that the big box electronics retailer has pulled the webOS tablets from its shelves and is shipping them back to HP. The slates have also disappeared from Best Buy's website...
Don't get upset if you already plunked down $400 for 10-inches of webOS goodness -- HP will refund you the difference. Call up the company or the retail partner you purchased it from, and ask. Just be prepared to sit on hold with all the rest of the folks trying to get their cash back.

Comment: Re:So this is "The freedom to be who you want to b (Score 1) 560

by the JoshMeister (#36865686) Attached to: Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire

Some people such as "Soulja Boy" (a recording artist) and "Violet Blue" (the author of the linked ZDNet article) get special treatment and have not been suspended for using their pseudonyms on Google+

It turns out that Violet Blue is her real name (my mistake; sorry, Violet!). Reference: https://plus.google.com/111091089527727420853/posts/YnzXfbpe9Nj

That actually brings up another problem: people with real names that are unusual or creative who have to live in fear of Google employees mistakenly suspending their accounts!

Comment: So this is "The freedom to be who you want to be"? (Score 1) 560

by the JoshMeister (#36865048) Attached to: Google+ Account Suspensions Over ToS Drawing Fire

So much for Google's blog post in February, "The freedom to be who you want to be..." which extolled the "great benefits" of pseudonymity. http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2011/02/freedom-to-be-who-you-want-to-be.html

Other recent suspensions:

  • * A guy who used a pseudonym on Google+ ("Thomas Monopoly") claims to have lost his entire account including "approximately 7 years of correspondence, over 4,800 photographs and videos, my Google Voice messages, over 500 articles saved to my Google Reader account for scholarship purposes all of my bookmarks, having used Google bookmarks my Docs account with shared documents and backups of inventory files my own personal calendar of doctors appointments, meetings, and various other dates collaborative calendars, of which I was the creator and of which several man hours were put into creating, community calendars my saved maps and travel history medical records and a variety of very important notes [and] My website, a blogger account for which I purchased the domain through Google and designed myself": http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/why-you-shouldnt-trust-google-or-any-cloud-service-with-your-data/13860
  • * Daynah (a Senior Editor at Beatweek Magazine and a blogger at Cali Lewis' GeekBeat.TV) was suspended from Google+ on Saturday, presumably because her Google+ name was "Daynah .net" (she never shares her last name online due to privacy and safety concerns). I believe it was just her Google+ account that got suspended, not her e-mail or access to other services. Her profile is still suspended as of when I'm posting this.
  • * I was suspended from Google+ on Friday, June 15th through Wednesday, June 20th, presumably because my Google+ name was "the JoshMeister" (which is how I'm known to almost all of my friends and followers online, on my podcasts which have been downloaded over a million times, including at my employment at MacTech Magazine as the Podcast Producer and Host). I tried changing my name to my first and last name with the JoshMeister in parenthesis after it, but that was also rejected, so ultimately I had to settle for using just my real first and last name. Unfortunately, my name is fairly common, and there are already several people with that name on Google+, making it significantly more difficult for people to find and recognize me or + mention me. I did not lose access to Google services other than Google+ and Google Buzz, although I did have to log in again to my e-mail and other services because Google claimed there had been "suspicious activity" (although I confirmed that nobody had accessed my account other than me). More of my story: https://plus.google.com/114936727752666468558/posts/5nHEHFsWCTx

Lists of suspensions:

Examples of Google's double standard and inconsistency:

  • * Some people such as "Soulja Boy" (a recording artist) and "Violet Blue" (the author of the linked ZDNet article) get special treatment and have not been suspended for using their pseudonyms on Google+
  • * "Die Ennomane" (die means "the" in German) was suspended but then was allowed to keep the pseudonym after German media coverage
  • * Google has turned a blind eye to several Lady Gaga impersonators (as the linked ZDNet article also points out)
  • * You can type various words into the "Find people" search bar and get results that are obviously not people's real names; start typing any of the following or think of other things to try: "the joker", "idiot", "stupid", "loser", "crap", "doctor", "rapper", "city", "google", "twitter", "facebook", "coca cola" (as mentioned in the ZDNet article), etc.
  • * Several people have gotten away with violating Google's policy against including a title (e.g. "Dr.") at the beginning of one's name (including but not limited to "Dr. Kiki Sanford" aka Kirsten Sanford)

Comment: *NOT* Related to "Web of Trust" Web Safety Add-on (Score 2, Informative) 127

by the JoshMeister (#29661729) Attached to: Thawte Will End "Web of Trust" On November 16

Although I'm familiar with Thawte, I hadn't heard of its "Web of Trust" prior to this article. However, there's a popular browser add-on with the same name, so I thought I should point that out to avoid any confusion, especially since both products are related to Internet security in some way.

Web of Trust is also the name of a Firefox and Internet Explorer plug-in from a company called WOT Services Ltd. (until recently known as Against Intuition Inc.). It helps protect users from harmful Web sites and puts safety rating badges in search results on Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and other search engines, similar to McAfee SiteAdvisor and Symantec's Norton Safe Web (although in my experience, WOT is much more effective). This completely unrelated Web of Trust is not being killed off.

I hope that clears up any potential confusion.

Comment: OmniWeb - Re:Tabs on top, do it NOW! (Score 2, Informative) 556

by the JoshMeister (#29287515) Attached to: Firefox 4.0 Goes Chrome, New UI In Q4 2010

Tabs should be down the side. [...] I don't understand how this basic mistake can have stayed with us for what, 10 years+ of tabbed browsing...

OmniWeb has been doing preview tabs on the side since 2004. Unfortunately, it's a Mac-only browser and has never really caught on.

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