{"id":15583,"date":"2012-01-24T19:07:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T02:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15583"},"modified":"2012-02-05T10:52:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T17:52:29","slug":"google-discovers-what-computing-is-actually-for-in-short-well-treat-you-as-a-single-user-across-all-our-products-which-will-mean-a-simpler-more-intuitive-google-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15583\/google-discovers-what-computing-is-actually-for-in-short-well-treat-you-as-a-single-user-across-all-our-products-which-will-mean-a-simpler-more-intuitive-google-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Google discovers what computing is actually for: “In short, we\u2019ll treat you as a single user across all our products which will mean a simpler, more intuitive Google experience.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Across all products is important. Across all devices is vital.<\/p>\n

Drudge and the privacy geeks are going typically apeshit, but Google is playing my tune:<\/a><\/p>\n

“If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,” Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy, product and engineering wrote in a blog post.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How might that work?<\/p>\n

For instance, a user who has watched YouTube videos of the Washington Wizards might suddenly see basketball ticket ads appear in his or her Gmail accounts.<\/p>\n

That person may also be reminded of a business trip to Washington on Google Calendar and asked whether he or she wants to notify friends who live in the area, information Google would cull from online contacts or its social network Google+.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hell, yeah! Those are the kinds of jobs I want from Sarah, your software secretary<\/a>, but I can show you a very cool Constance the Connector connection<\/a> here, as well.<\/p>\n

How about I start a music service that seeks to sell you music that you will probably like and don’t already own. “Don’t already own” is an easy database from iTunes or whatever. But “will probably like” requires analysis — algorithm as art — and that’s what makes my business model work. To you-as-end-user, it feels like I know you, like we’re high-school buddies whose friendship is built around grooving to the same tunes.<\/p>\n

How could I do that? Let me see your YouTube history, not just what you picked but how many times your replayed particular songs. Let me see your Amazon.com shopping history — especially the things you come back to again and again but don’t buy. I don’t need to know you. You already know you better than anyone else ever could.<\/p>\n

That’s what we’re actually talking about, you collecting facts about yourself for future reference. Like a bad comic, Google can make anything sound dirty, but there is nothing wrong with you getting more of what you want — better, faster and cheaper.<\/p>\n

Do you understand? Your fears, assuming they are real, are misplaced. The U.S. Government now has the lawful authority to assassinate you at will in Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Across all products is important. Across all devices is vital. Drudge and the privacy geeks are going typically apeshit, but Google is playing my tune: “If you’re signed in, we may combine information you’ve provided from one service with information from other services,” Alma Whitten, Google’s director of privacy, product and engineering wrote in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[325,212,29,379,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-crm","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12005,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/12005\/facebook-privacy-monopolies-and-marketing-revenue\/","url_meta":{"origin":15583,"position":0},"title":"Facebook, Privacy, Monopolies, and Marketing Revenue…","author":"Eric Blackwell","date":"May 17, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"More than several years ago, I used to snicker at those who were (in my mind) overly concerned about Google OWNING all of the data in their disparate enterprises. \"What would happen if they would put all of that data into a large data warehouse and mine it?\" folks would\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Real Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Real Estate","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/real-estate\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2413,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2413\/mashable-predictions-for-2008\/","url_meta":{"origin":15583,"position":1},"title":"Mashable Predictions for 2008","author":"Lani Anglin","date":"December 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Mashable is the Internet's (well, the globe's) ultimate source for social media news and information.\u00a0 Mark \"Rizzn\" Hopkins\u00a0is who we all look to for guidance and especially for predictions.\u00a0 This week, Rizzn put together his predictions for 2008 and here's why you SHOULD NOT READ\u00a0his entire article: 1. 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