So all you have to do is start a tech company that does this. When Google knock on your doors, with literally one and half billion dollars of Google stock, you have to say "No".
Would you do that? Could you blame anyone else for doing that?
Re:FixYT
by dylangs1030 on Saturday November 16, 2013 @07:33AM
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I couldn't do it, but Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion.
It can be done.
Re:FixYT
by rodolphoarruda on Saturday November 16, 2013 @04:17PM
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Thanks for mentioning about the company. I've never heard about it until now. Surprisingly enough I had to look at Wikipedia to know what they do and further details. Their website currently gives no clue about anything they do but a new product called "Stories", which for newcomers like me means zilch.
Re:FixYT
by cenhyperion on Saturday November 16, 2013 @12:08PM
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>Snapchat's CEO turned down a cool $3 billion
Because word is he's getting offers for over $4 billion
And next week somebody will post that Apple offers $5 billion.
Youtube is a social product and Google+ is a (vastly better) social product. Of course Google is merging them. Google has multiple social services and merges them together. You have multiple Google accounts and... oh. You... don't merge them together. In fact you fight it every day for years. No kidding that at this point, by the time the change has stopped giving you leeway that you're frustrated your protest has stacked up to nothing.
In fact if you merge your Google accounts your protest isn't lost either. Your protest has been and is nothing. It's just in your head. Merge your Google accounts and use Google's social product or don't. If you wanted to protest Google why didn't you just stop using it? Or stop using it now?
They got this idea in their head that they need to create the complete identity for users to target ads better. This idea came about when the press and pundits where saying that facebook was so valuable because of realnames and user identity. The issue is that it's been proven that you can build a profile from a person's search history, even Target can predict if you are pregnant. So why waste time with this shit, anger your users and destroy your brands value?