Google Profiles pave the way for global directory, Facebook killer

Haha, www.yasni.com have

Haha, www.yasni.com have been doing this exact same thing but better for ages, including finding public information about you on social networks. i mean, yasni is even bigger than facebook in germany according to comscore - so no smallfry but just because this is google, they'll get press for nothing.

Privcy and Spam

The new Google profile application is just the thing for people who want strangers sriends to see their picture, name, where they work and discover what they do. Unfortunately, Google profiles is is a very public space. So, be prepared (if you are foolish enough to enable the the " send me a message' application" for every kook, insurance salesman and local lawn service to search and send you an email offering their service. I don't know about you but, my email box is too jammed every morning to enable this kind of intrusive and annoying traffic.

Also, I two young children. I don't want my personal facts alerting nefarious people when I'm home and where I live. Not to mention the the scam artists and bill collectors.

I think Google has made a big mistake here...they are more interested in their business and destroying other social networks than protecting their customer base

Resistance is futile. You

Resistance is futile.
You WILL be assimilated...

Let's not get too excited...

Google Profiles have existed as long as Google has offered any member services. All we're seeing here is that it is prioritising them in search results. It still lacks any social graph information attached to it and this is tough to build. Admittedly Google could easily share Google Mail contacts to start a primitive social network, like Microsoft has done by turning MSN and Hotmail contacts into a Live social network of sorts, but it's a way off the functionality of Facebook.

This delivers a big blow to sites like Spock however and as soon as the most basic "friending" capability is there then life gets tough for LinkedIn too.

Our own site keeps air by acting as a profile for members' businesses and brokering introductions with potential new customers. We're niche and focused enough for this not to be a concern.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Wait until Google buys

Wait until Google buys Twitter and makes all the profiles talk to each other. I don't know if people will realize it for a while, but this is the next big thing. The name of Web 3.0 is Google.

google is good but too much is too much !

Hi,

I think that it has more and more debates about the privacy policies and that we are more and more exposed to anyone on the web.
It's normal that people can find us if they are searching some information on this or that. But the problem is if we are not informed and cannot change the parameters to let google publish things we don't want to share, it's not a good idea. For example I use Picasa and have thousands of great photos on my PC but don't want to share them with all the world. Other example : if I subscrive to a yahoo group for fun I don't want to let google open it and melt it with other professional informations I put on professionals websites. Other example : I don't want to let them use my datas for receiving spam after it. And if I'm doing movements on market, I don't want to share it with all the people who didn't spent the time I spent to find the good opportunity. And I have tons of examples like those ones.

For the other idea they have to use their archives to show to users only the advertising with the remembering they have of who I went (through google maps or travels' site I broosed, through my datas on many sites I visit and post, I'm opposed to this practice. Too much is too much. It's not to help us finding the right things quicklier, it's at my eyes only restaining our privacy and liberty.

So I'm sad to see that google should keep our datas during 9 years for only business and without our possibility to say "no". And if we say "no" to their ideas, that we'll have the opportunity in spite of all to use google and not being blacklisted as it's the case on community as viadeo who don't like people don't like they change the rules without asking them if they agree.

So please google be more sagacious than interested by business and cutting our liberties and privacy.

We are one

It is all part of the original plan - Converge into one mind, one data stream, one social organism. Do not worry and have no fear. This is how it should be. I love you all.

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