Socially Mundane

Tim Carmody of Wired Magazine writes:

I think Google, by asking for real names for its profiles, wants to be the only portal you use (and the primary source of data you trust) to find information about people when you search for them by name. (I can’t tell whether this is simple or profound.)

Name searches are very popular. If Bing and Facebook or anyone else used social network data to consistently provide more relevant search results for names (or businesses, etc.), Google’s lead in search doesn’t look so rock solid any more. It would only be a matter of time.

A very good (longer) read on the whole Google+ Nym-war. I’m there, as Ari Blackthorne, just waiting for someone to flag me - thus having my accounts suspended. But the truth is: I don;t find G+ really all that interesting. I’m more the Twitter type and I don;t even real tweet all that much (though I’m ringing Subjot.com to be something worth using a lot).

Head over to this wired Magazine article (click the title above) and give it a read if the G+ Nym-War is of any interest to you at all. It might give you some real insight into both sides of the “issue”.