Google Preparing "Google Mine" For Organizing and Sharing Your Stuff On Google+ 129
MojoKid writes "George Carlin said it best, we all 'need a place to put our stuff.' It seems the folks at Google understand this age old wisdom as well and as such will be launching a new service. Google Mine will reportedly soon be integrated with Google+ so that users can share their belongings with friends in circles they so designate. The new service will also allow G+ users to rate and review items as well, so that anyone in your Google+ stream that you allow, can see the items and your opinion of them. Reportedly there is also an Android app on the way for Mine, which seems like a natural of course, for sharing your stuff on the go. What's perhaps most interesting about the prospects of Google+ Mine could be the secondary benefit that Google receives from data 'mining' your shares on the items you own, use or want."
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Mine (Score:0, Insightful)
At least they are being honest now.. They are mining YOU!
Not sure what I'm more excited about (Score:5, Insightful)
Not a bad idea (Score:5, Insightful)
Most people have too much stuff, and we don't even realize it. Get rid of half your stuff and you will find it incredibly liberating. You will discover that you your residence is less cluttered, it's easier to focus, it takes less time to clean and it's easier to spend time at your residence. Donate it, sell it, give it away, loan it, just plain get rid of it. You'll thank yourself for long afterwords.
jesus fucking H christ!! (Score:0, Insightful)
Seriously, anyone here got anything out of the NSA scandal, ANYONE??!!
They were the first to collaborate with them. They have the largest most detailed database just for them, I have been saying over and over how fucking scary google is, no need for much of a brain to understand the power they have and the VERY EASY way to use it for complete evil, now we have PROOF. PROOF FOR FUCK SAKE!! Yet every fucking retard on the net still roots for them and call them awesome. FUCKING SHIT what more do you want, what the fuck will it take to get you retarded sheep dickheads to understand how fucking evil this company is??!!
fuck politeness, fuck grammar, sometimes people just need to be told stuff bluntly:
YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID AND DANGEROUS.
Burglars will love this. (Score:2, Insightful)
I wonder who is dopey enough to use this?
Re:jesus fucking H christ!! (Score:2, Insightful)
Don't confuse what slashdot nerds care about with what people care about in the real world. Slashdot groupthink is representative of about 0.1% of the real world, tops. It's insignificant when it comes to market influences.
In the real world, nobody has a problem with google, and they are happy with google's free services. So happy that I know very few people who don't use gmail, and nobody who doesn't use google search, google maps, and google apps if they have an Android phone.
That will continue to be true no matter how much you nerdrage against them. Get used to it.
Carlin wouldn't approve (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:jesus fucking H christ!! (Score:2, Insightful)
If by first collaborate you mean the first to fight the requests and release the number of requests to the public then yes. There is also a huge difference between the potential to use a power for evil and actually doing it. They ain't perfect but they're miles better than *all* of their competitors, explaining the FUD spread by ACs like you over the last few years.
taking bets: how long before THIS service ... (Score:3, Insightful)
...goes kaput?
at this point, only fools trust google to keep things running. put your 'stuff' there, get used to it and in a year or two, they change their minds and either change the terms on you or outright cancel it.
I would not touch google services ever again. 'free' is not free when you have to spend time, later on, relocating.
yes this is what I needed (Score:5, Insightful)
The only thing better than stupid opinions people express on Yelp is having my own personal Yelp where people write their idiotic opinions about my house and possessions.
Re:Google can't control themselves (Score:4, Insightful)
They shut down money sinks, and are opening up potential new revenue streams. That's how business keeps moving forward. The reason for the closings and new launches is the same - profit.
They had to explain it to the users without alienating users. "Your service that you like costs us too much money and isn't popular enough to monetize" doesn't have that snazzy ring to it.
Google seems very much in control of themselves, outside of the various FTC probes they will be subjected to since they are trying to monopolize all data everywhere, as the stretch goal.