It bums me out because gmail is my private email.
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megan walker - Feb 12, 2010 7:32:06 pm PST #12826 of 25501
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
§ ita § - Feb 12, 2010 7:56:07 pm PST #12827 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Oh, it's fuckery, no doubt.
I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through? A marketing decision where opt out was thought perfectly viable, even if it's something you have to read up on to work out how to do?
I'm still not entirely sure why I want a Buzz. Why it's different from Twitter or Facebook statuses or even Google Wave. And know what! So not going to bother looking, since it doesn't seem you can experiment without poking holes in the fabric.
Jessica - Feb 13, 2010 3:41:48 am PST #12828 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I wonder what the motivation was--a new geek toy that didn't get thought through?
I'm guessing this.
I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook, or surely they would have realized that an opt-out model is never a good idea! (Especially when opting out is so fiendishly difficult - why no Google Buzz settings tab, for instance? And *especially* when you're talking about publishing people's private email addresses!!!)
Steph L. - Feb 13, 2010 6:55:48 am PST #12829 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
I'm mainly surprised to learn that apparently nobody at Google has ever used Facebook
Or even heard of the concept.
I also don't know why they need Buzz when they have Wave (though I still don't actually understand how Wave works, either).
The reason I jumped on Gmail back in the day was that it was so SIMPLE. They really need to stop complicating my shit up.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 7:22:06 am PST #12830 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I've worked out how to synch iCal with Google calendars. Because of the presence of the Missing Sync product for Android I'm assuming there's no simple way to synch OS X contacts with Google contacts?
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 7:53:17 am PST #12831 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
You can sync your Mac address book with Google, too.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 7:58:44 am PST #12832 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
How? I'm not seeing instructions that don't assume I have an iPhone.
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 8:02:07 am PST #12833 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 13, 2010 8:08:03 am PST #12834 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yeah--I posted upthread ( ita "Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."" Jan 25, 2010 8:40:08 pm PST) about that. It's not exposing the Google option to me. I've tried with two different iPods.
Have you made it work?
Tom Scola - Feb 13, 2010 9:18:46 am PST #12835 of 25501
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Have you made it work?
Google contacts has always scared me, even before Buzz.