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Net-neutrality supporters from India (SaveTheInternet.in) brought out the negative implications of the Facebook Free Basic program and spread awareness to the public. [385] Facebook's Free Basics program [386] was a collaboration with Reliance Communications to launch Free Basics in India. The TRAI ruling against differential pricing marked the ...
Some Google products do not require an account, including Google Search, YouTube, Google Books, Google Finance and Google Maps. However, an account is needed for uploading videos to YouTube and for making edits in Google Maps. YouTube and Blogger maintain separate accounts for users who registered with the services before the Google acquisition.
Jawed Karim was born on October 28, 1979, in Merseburg, East Germany, to a Bangladeshi father and a German mother. [4] His father Naimul Karim (Bengali: নাইমুল করিম) is a Bangladeshi who is a researcher at 3M, and his mother, Christine, is a German biochemistry scientist at the University of Minnesota. [5]
Google Talk was an instant messaging service that provided both text and voice communication. [1] The instant messaging service was variously referred to colloquially as Gchat, Gtalk, or Gmessage among its users.
The integration was showcased at Google I/O in the Google+ Developer Sandbox. The feature allowed people to join and log into SkillPages using their Google+ account across desktop, iOS and Android. Users could share interactive posts to their Google+ Circles and ask their connections in Google+ to recommend their skills.
By Google integrating Google+, the company was encouraging users to switch to Google's social networking site in order to improve search results. One famous example occurred when Google showed a link to Mark Zuckerberg's dormant Google+ account rather than the active Facebook profile. [20]
With all of the concerns over who controls the "Social Web" (We've addressed some of these problems before in Free Software Magazine) – regarding the Google+ name policy and other privacy issues, Facebook's questionable ethics, and the overall danger of controlled networks.
[1] [2] [3] A user can have up to 100 blogs or websites per account. [4] Blogger enabled users to publish blogs and websites to their own web hosting server via FTP until May 1, 2010. All such blogs and websites had to be redirected to a blogspot.com subdomain or point their own domain to Google's servers via DNS. [5]