Google is gonna kill Facebook, or maybe hurt 'em.

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<p>Google owns at everything.</p>

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  • looks like a cross. 2000 men claiming to be Spartacus were crucified by the Romans along the Appian Way.</p>

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PUN</p>

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LOL. made my day!</p>

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<p>But not poor Σπάρτακος.</p>

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<p>Not so sure about the Circles concept. It’s true that people mentally categorize certain people into certain groups, but it all seems so classified…</p>

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<p>I like the Circles concept. That way, I can share stuff with an inner circle of trusted friends that I don’t want other people seeing (for example, I can cuss out a teacher or two to really close friends who share the feeling without a goody-two-shoes seeing it and telling the teacher I cussed her out).</p>

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<p>Google’s mission is to compile a giant database of everything about everyone, and sell that information to advertisers. I’ll join a Google social network the day of never.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, and whoever said “Google owns at everything” obviously forgot about all the stuff they launched and abandoned because it was a complete failure.</p>

<p>Remember how Google Knol killed Wikipedia? And nobody uses Twitter anymore because of Google Wave, right? Right…</p>

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<p>Uh, you realize that anyone in that “inner circle” can just copy and paste whatever it is out to anywhere on the Internet, right? Don’t put anything on a social network that you wouldn’t want the whole world to read.</p>

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<p>Oh, I know that’s what Facebook is doing. But Google is doing it on a far larger, broader scale. That’s the whole point of Android, you know - give it away free and capture everything everyone’s doing everywhere.</p>

<p>Frankly, I don’t trust either Facebook or Google with sensitive data.</p>

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<p>Google is giving out free Androids to the public?</p>

<p>But yeah, I don’t use social networks either.</p>

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<p>Give the operating system away free = lower-cost devices. You can get Android devices for free on contract, and dirt-cheap even off-contract. That’s because those hardware manufacturers don’t have to pay for the development of a quality mobile operating system, saving hundreds of millions of dollars vs. an integrated device manufacturer like Apple. The goal is widespread adoption so that Google gets widespread data mining.</p>

<p>But this is getting somewhat off-topic. ;)</p>

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<p>Interesting. I don’t know enough to speak on that.</p>

<p>And it’s okay, the topic wasn’t going anywhere else.</p>

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<p>^^Google is trying to be like the Microsoft of the mobile market. Be everywhere, remain cheap, and open. While Apple is Google’s main competitor with their iPhone, they wanna remain exclusive. But I do hear about Google doing a computer software to compete with Apple. Google is everywhere these days.</p>

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<p>Well, sort of “compete with Apple.”</p>

<p>Google’s developing Chrome OS. Which is basically an operating system that consists of a browser. Everything you do is on the Internet, because all it can do is run Web apps. If you’re not connected to the Internet, the OS is essentially useless.</p>

<p>Why anyone would want to lug around a laptop that is completely useless without an Internet connection and is neither cheaper nor lighter than standard laptops, is somewhat mystifying.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/technology/personaltech/16pogue.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/technology/personaltech/16pogue.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Oh, and please don’t listen to the “open” baloney. Just ask Google for their search engine algorithm, eh? Not so “open” there.</p>

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<p>I still don’t completely get the concept of Circles. For example, if I have my own circle called “Friends”, and one of my distant friends also has a circle called “Friends”, it’s not like the two groups would be the same…but then for something like “Harvard class of 2015” that would have to be only one circle encompassing a constant group of people…</p>

<p>Does anyone understand what I’m getting at?</p>

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<p>^If you have the Harvard one, you should put only the people you hang with, and not the guy you just say hello to every now and then. I think the circles is used got close friends and to keep your private life from everyone you know of.</p>

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<p>I hopes it’s nothing like GoogleBuzz :S</p>

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<p>At this point it’s more of a business thing. If their productivity apps are reasonable, Chrome OS would be a good, simple deal for many businesses.</p>

<p>It’s also reasonable if you always have a reliable Internet connection.</p>

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<p>Just got a Google+ account :O</p>

<p>It’s really confusing. I’m not feeling this beating Facebook even after I get used to it.</p>

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<p>Sign-up is blocked.</p>