Open Letter to Google+ Profile Support
On Sep 19, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Google Profiles Support wrote: Hi, Thank you for contacting us with regard to our review of the name you are trying to use in your Google Profile. After review of your appeal, we have determined that the name you want to use violates our Community Standards. I am curious what...
Potential Future: Google-Zon
With the nymwars unfolding (Nym = Pseudonym , Anonymous and other varities on this theme) this video of the Google-Zon story in the year 2014 seems more prescient then ever. Please watch the video on the Original Site the way it was done is amazing. EPIC in this video stands for the Electronic Personalized Information Construct The computer writes a new story for...
Mononym officially "not" accepted. I'm Kaliya. Google get a clue.
OK. Let me be very frank. Kaliya says to Google: "Why should I have to justify my name to you?" My name is Kaliya Just me. That is what it was on my profile before you decided that i had to have letters in my last name. Type me into Google nymrods, 5 of the posts...
G-Male is a Good Listener, Maybe too good.
Ok, now we know what is wrong Google is on the [autism] spectrum. "The obstacles primarily exist in the realm of social interaction. The fundamental problem is akin to blindness, as the term social blindness suggests." They keep doing well meaning but awkward feeling things because well they know how to technically but it isn't...
Learning to stand up for my Identity, began with O'Reilly | She bows in gratitude for the teaching.
The first time I had my "identity" erased was actually by O'Reilly. Ok, to be fair it was by his people. I was invited to attend Foo Camp in 2006 and was then invited to speak at both Web 2.0 Expo and Emerging Telephony in 2007. So, I was asked to fill out my speaker...
1 month anniversary of Goggle Gag
Its been a month now. I have filled out the "application form" 3 times. This was my first post about it: Google+ and my "real" name: Yes, I'm Identity Woman The most recent rejection letter when I applied to be a mononym (which I was before this all started) was from "Anonymous Nick"... Re: [#859600835] Google...
Google+ says your name is "Toby" NOT "Kunta Kinte"
This post is about what is going on at a deeper level when Google+ says your name is "Toby" NOT "Kunta Kinte". The punchline video is at the bottom feel free to scroll there and watch if you don't want to read to much. This whole line of thought to explain to those who don't...
Lets try going with the Mononym for Google+
Seeing that Google+ is approving mononyms for some (Original Sai, on the construction of names Additional Post) but not for others (Original Stilgherrian Post Update post ). I decided to go in and change my profile basically back to what it was before all this started. I put a ( . ) dot in the...
The Fundamental Remaking of Several Industries
@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earth...
Google buys Motorola and its giant patent portfolio
The official statement from Google says, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG - News) and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:MMI - News) today announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola...
The “Nymwars”: The First Real Cyber Souvereignty Cause
Who gets to decide what your name is? Your parents, upon birth. They then tell others, such as the government of the place where you born to have your birth recorded. Then, things depend dramatically on where you live. In Germany, where I come from, it...
Is Google+ is being lynched by out-spoken users upset by real names policy?