Right now on G+, there's a lot of feedbacking and adjusting and technical improvements going on, as well as a turbulent bit of community-shaping. The tool and the use case are being formed at the same time.
I feel it's very important that as many diverse viewpoints as possible help out with the technical feedback bits. Google has built some amazing tools, and continues to build amazing tools, and I have a dream that my community's collective voice will be heard as the company shapes this next technical milestone along humanity's path of communicative and collaborative interaction.
HOWEVER. The community-shaping that is going on there... it's important, yes, very much so, on a global internet cultural level. But...
If the main big commercial Google gmail-using community ends up with standards that aren't welcoming to people...
Is it a crushing blow to fandom and fannish folks' culture that we not feel welcome in yet another big place on the internet? I don't honestly know.
What I do know... or at least... I think my chain of logic is sound here...
Aaaaand... Google Apps could be deployed in any domain. I mean, Google recommends it for organizing family reunions, companies use 'em and somehow keep their intellectual property rights (ew, contractual fine print).
And any Google Apps installation, administered on a domain separately from Google's public Google Apps, can set its own username guidelines.
Right?
What I don't know is if content policies about no explicit content apply to Google Apps domains.
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I am pondering.
Date: 2011-07-10 02:03 pm (UTC)I feel it's very important that as many diverse viewpoints as possible help out with the technical feedback bits. Google has built some amazing tools, and continues to build amazing tools, and I have a dream that my community's collective voice will be heard as the company shapes this next technical milestone along humanity's path of communicative and collaborative interaction.
HOWEVER. The community-shaping that is going on there... it's important, yes, very much so, on a global internet cultural level. But...
If the main big commercial Google gmail-using community ends up with standards that aren't welcoming to people...
Is it a crushing blow to fandom and fannish folks' culture that we not feel welcome in yet another big place on the internet? I don't honestly know.
What I do know... or at least... I think my chain of logic is sound here...
Google is integrating G+ features with Google Apps for Business and Education and whatnot. It's just not ready yet... http://www.brandchannel.com/home/post/2011/07/08/Google-Plus-Ford-Brands-Delay.aspx
Aaaaand... Google Apps could be deployed in any domain. I mean, Google recommends it for organizing family reunions, companies use 'em and somehow keep their intellectual property rights (ew, contractual fine print).
And any Google Apps installation, administered on a domain separately from Google's public Google Apps, can set its own username guidelines.
Right?
What I don't know is if content policies about no explicit content apply to Google Apps domains.
*ponders further*