Based on my investigative research along with the CN international team of researchers, here are the companies that are clearly dead because of the Google+ launch:
– duh, enemy #1
- Skype – who would want to use Skype anymore now that you got this Hangout video chat?
- Email services like Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, and all the other X Mails – clearly email is dead thanks to Google+!
- Yelp – business profile pages are apparently coming to Google+
- Friendfeed – oh wait, I think FF has been killed 3.14 times previously
- Twitter – c’mon, the celebs are totes gonna head over to Google+ so they can spend hours in meaningless chats with their fans (Google needs a suggested user list Tout de suite) (Allen’s note, the celebs will join because it’s hot right now)
- Tumblr – post a quick photo via Picasa to Google+, to replace the huge Tumblr porn section, see Hangout video chat comment above
- Foursquare – Google+ has checkins
- Social lending – rather than using a social lending service, you will just ask one of your circles for a loan
- Uber – no need for a cab when you may never want to leave home ever again?
- Quora – why ask a question on Quora when you can ask your circle?
- Color – use Picasa instead?
- SEO – just push your people to +1 the heck out of all your stuff so you can influence the search results directly
- GroupMe – you can totes group sms inside Google+
- Flickr – why pay for a Flickr Pro when you can just make a Picasa album which you can then selectively share with a circle or multiple circles which you can then share?
- Path – isn’t sharing within a circle privately what this team was working on?
- Blogging – who wants to blog anymore when you can plus instead?
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via wired.com -
via blog.mycube.com -
Google made headlines when it went public with the fact that Chinese hackers had penetrated some of its services, such as Gmail, in a politically motivated attempt at intelligence gathering. The news here isn't that Chinese hackers engage in these activities or that their attempts are technically sophisticated -- we knew that already -- it's that the U.S. government inadvertently aided the hackers.
In order to comply with government search warrants on user data, Google created a backdoor access system into Gmail accounts. This feature is what the Chinese hackers exploited to gain access.
via schneier.com -
One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned ... Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.
via atimes.com
