Shaw Capital Working Management Tips: Google News Gets Gamified
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Social elements are popping up throughout Google’s services, and Google is
encouraging its users to open up and share more....
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Shaw Capital Working Management Tips: Google News Gets Gamified
http://www.
informationweek.
com/news/internet/google/231001919
Social elements are popping up throughout Google’s services, and Google is
encouraging its users to open up and share more.
Giddy with the successful launch of its Google+ social network, Google appears to be
reinventing itself as the bar depicted in the ’80s sitcom Cheers, a place where
everybody knows your name.
Google is requiring users to provide Google Profiles, the identity component of
Google+, with “the name that you commonly go by in daily life.
”This is essentially the
same as Facebook’s name policy, which doesn’t sit well with Internet users who prefer
to interact online without being personally identified.
Google did recently add “Other” as a gender designation option in Profiles, a
concession to privacy, but mostly Google, like Facebook before it, wants to see more
information shared.
Toward that end, Google on Thursday turned the U.
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