Oh, busted. I should have hid that!

Obviously my comment must be incorrect and that HN commentary has not turned into a rather predictable bit of the following:

1. Google is in the news about a new thing 2. Mention Google Reader 3. Mention how something not obviously related to Ads is somehow going to sell your info 4. Throw in claims of giving the info knowingly to the government.

Nothing about analyzing the whole home automation or internet of things market? Nothing about competitive analysis or other perspectives.

Yes, Google has lost control of the narrative as someone else said, but it's sad had jaded and taken in by it people have become. Before you press the reply button, you know, you could choose to be different than every other web site that has comments, and add something that elevates the conversation.

Just my 2 cents.

BTW, if I wanted to just shill for Google, I'd create an anonymous profile. I obviously include lots of disclosure information so people of aware that I am an employee and can make their own judgements. There's lots of individual stuff to criticize Google on, on a case by case basis. I could list lots. I don't think knee-jerk responses that fill up these threads improve the level of discourse on the site.

I'm not trying to say you're wrong, or that your opinions are invalid, but not everyone is going to click through to every commenter's profile. When one's own company is the subject of a story, it's good form to identify potential conflicts of interest in each and every thread. As I've been told over and over again in the ethics training I have to take every year, it's important to reduce even the appearance of trying to mislead people about anything to do with the company. Does Google not require such training?

My kingdom for a .sig file, everything was easier in the era of USENET. That is the chief reason I added my disclosure to my profile was that typing it in every thread was getting tedious.

Oh God yes. The one thing I hate about the current era of technological awesomeness is how NNTP keeps getting reinvented in new contexts, and reinvented very badly at that.

For that matter, I consider a well run mailing list to be a barely adequate substitute for an NNTP group (for which we can blame Outlook), but now those are being reinvented badly as well.

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