Janet Fouts

AUGUST 28, 2011

This post showed up on Google Plus on Saturday from journalist Andy Carvin , and I think it raises quite a few flags for anyone thinking about using Google products, including Google Plus. The responses below are copied from Andy’s post on Google Plus ( here’s the original if you’re on G+ ).

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Janet Fouts

JUNE 17, 2010

I’m a bit more pragmatic than some of my co-panelists on what privacy we can actually have in this day and age. I’m trying to keep my focus in this case on activists and their issues with privacy online. This is one example of social media being used to secure the privacy of an individual.

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Janet Fouts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Tired of explaining why you have a long string of numbers as the URL for your Google+ page? Then you’ll be as excited as I am to hear Google+ is finally rolling out custom URLs for both personal profiles and pages. In the meantime you could use the Google URL shortener GPlus.to to create a shortcut like this.

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Janet Fouts

JULY 5, 2011

If you’re as into social media networks as I am you’d have to have your head in the sand to miss the launch of Google+ , a shiny new social network from Google. Adding the “ Authorship&# tag &# to syndicated posts will allow users to follow specific authors and list your content on the +1 tab of your Google profile.

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 13, 2018

Of course, we are all aware of the privacy issues now in the news about Facebook and other major networking sites. Now, not many companies harvest as much data as Google, Facebook, Twitter, and others, but we should still take these new rules as good practice. So does Google, Facebook, Twitter and so many others.

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Janet Fouts

MARCH 20, 2012

Even if they don’t ask for your password you can bet an HR person will have googled you and viewed your profiles on Linkedin,Twitter, Facebook and Google+ at the very least. Privacy online is a myth. Search for yourself, not just on Google but on Bing and popular social sites. Isn’t that nice?

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Janet Fouts

APRIL 6, 2011

Google just introduced their “ plus 1 &# button. If you’re in a big hurry you can sign into Google’s Experimental Labs and add this experiment to your services. Here’s a video description of how it works (from Google’s point of view.). Is it going to stir up another privacy debate?

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