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yanwon Google is FUBAR

Full disclosure: Washington Post Co. Chairman and chief executive Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors.

They omitted it this time it seems.

yanwon Google is FUBAR

Much of these "bubble" issues are created by interested parties (mainly your competitors) the best you could do about it is assembling a better PR team.

yanwon An open letter to Google with respect to their new privacy policy and SPYW

Reads like a general letter than anything about SPYW or any new policy (they've always targeted ads).

yanwon Google is FUBAR

Nah, Apple has the best PR in the business; even posts about their revenue generate massive views.

yanwon Google is FUBAR

Nothing spikes pageviews like Google bashing.

yanwon Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else

So instead of commending the CEO on articulating a vision and being determined about it the author somehow spins the words to fit the Google bashing theme of her previous posts.

To be clear: "This is the path we’re headed down – a single unified, ‘beautiful’ product across everything. If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else" != “Fuck off”.

There is plenty that could be said about the sad state of tech blogging but some of the blame falls on Google because they are losing the PR battle. It’s obvious that PR staff from Twitter/Facebook and others are doing a much better job at selling their rhetoric to these tech blogs, specially to the newly formed blogs looking for audience and traffic.

yanwon Larry Page to Googlers: If You Don’t Get SPYW, Work Somewhere Else

Which the author totally ignores.

yanwon Google: Focus on the User

I use the same language against the same language.

Are you a lawyer?

yanwon Google+ relaxes real-name policy, allows pseudonyms

You don't need a G+ profile for Gmail.

yanwon Google: Focus on the User

Google does not own 90% of the market and their product is free as their competitors' products so there is no harm to consumers.

As for Yelp, they asked to not appear on Places and Google told them to use robots.txt if they don't want to be indexed, and the rest is spin and PR.

yanwon Google: Focus on the User

Not that tired meme again. No, it's not the same as Windows+IE: in this case both products are free and both you do not own, it's just a website you visit basically. Also you are not trapped into them and Google didn't go about threatening OEMs.

yanwon Google: Focus on the User

Then educate those people and don't push for some nanny-state mandate by which even if the freedom to switch services is available one service must freely advertise all the others. Not to mention the hypocrisy of Facebook/Twitter blocking data from Google yet they are demanding to be featured anyway.

yanwon Google: Focus on the User

I have no idea why would anyone feel entitled to any sort of placement in Google search results, they do not charge anyone for being indexed, and if you don't care for the results that is what the address bar on web browsers is for.

This whole issue feels artificial and exaggerated: social profiles? seriously?! that is the least of any user's concerns. I think Twitter/Facebook and whomever should focus on their own products and not resort to these sorts of PR stunts.

yanwon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

There is no more a "real name" requirement for G+.

yanwon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

They started allowing aliases on G+.

yanwon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

For Google Apps G+ is an opt-in service.

yanwon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

Confusion? this is the first time Google has a clear and cohesive identity platform for all their services.

yanwon New Google Accounts Require Gmail and Google+

How is it you figure that this warrants any sort of investigation exactly? I don't see any other issues with this neither: it applies for new signups, existing users aren't required to open G+ account or anything else.

It's funny how people keep getting "shocked and surprised" by obvious moves, what use is it having a profile or a cohesive identity system for all your services if you don't incorporate it into said services or even use it when users sign up?!

yanwon Ask HN: Where can I report a Google+ bug?

email: security@google.com

They usually reply within 24hrs.

yanwon Google’s Social-Networking Service Said to Be Added to FTC Antitrust Probe

Our tax dollars at work :P

yanwon Kenyan Company Catches Google in the Act of Being “Evil”

Seriously!? "Fairsearch"? are you a fan of the propaganda? because this incident is already well covered, the source is the first item on HN and there are plenty of related blogspam posted afterword as well.

yanwon Google, what were you thinking?

That is why it has the "Paste as plain text" option.

yanwon Google, what were you thinking?

Google's statement via: http://paidcontent.org/article/419-google-investigating-keny...

We were mortified to learn that a team of people working on a Google project improperly used Mocality’s data and misrepresented our relationship with Mocality to encourage customers to create new websites.

We’ve already unreservedly apologised to Mocality. We’re still investigating exactly how this happened, and as soon as we have all the facts, we’ll be taking the appropriate action with the people involved.

yanwon Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed

Someone is suggesting that HK auto-kills .co.ke links: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3460186

yanwon Ask HN: Why is the "Google, what were you thinking?" link getting killed

The link was probably nuked because of it's all caps headline, try resubmitting it now using a headline with less caps.

yanwon Google, what were you thinking?

I'm assuming it was flagged because the headline was in ALL CAPS.

yanwon Ditching Google for Bing

Microsoft does the same with their Facebook integration and even a “cluttered” Google is still superior: http://marketingland.com/twitter-google-wwe-bing-3206

The fact that search engines can be swapped on a whim nullifies antitrust concerns, and as for the features in question they can be toggled over and even turned off completely if you don't find value in them, thus I fail to understand the brouhaha involving this feature and certain bloggers pretending to be lawyers.

yanwon Search plus your world? What's so bad about that?

Nothing's wrong with it but the imaginary non issues invented by a bunch of bloggers pretending to be lawyers.

yanwon Survival v. Antitrust (AKA, Remember The Browser) « Uncrunched

Will the government come along and knock some heads together in a few years? Maybe. But this is a much more nuanced situation that Microsoft’s execution of Netscape. That could take years and years, and the government may question Facebook’s willingness to throw data to their shareholder Microsoft while withholding it from Google

Exactly, and reading MG Siegler's interpretation of antitrust law is the same as reading his musings on string theory.

yanwon Google Fires Back at Twitter: You Took Yourself Out of Search

"Breaking away" as you describe it sounds like innovation to me, and pacing innovation to standard bodies would kill it. I can't think of specifics but surly most of what is considered the standard today was once the experimentation of one company or one lab.