I Discuss Google on the Tech Night Owl Live
Meet the Night Owl himself, the incomparable Gene Steinberg, best-selling Mac author and columnist. Get to know Gene, and discover his unique, thought-provoking viewpoints about the technology universe, from the always-fascinating happenings at Apple Inc. to consumer electronics, innovative products and overall trends in the tech industry.
On this week’s all-star episode, author and commentator Kirk McElhearn tells you why he’s working hard to banish Google from his Macs, as he regards the service as potentially harmful to your privacy. That very subject is also covered from a somewhat different point of view by Adam Engst, of TidBITS and Take Control Books. Adam also discusses the surprising success of Macworld Expo 2010, which was held without Apple’s participation.
In another segment, Lee Givens, an AOL Mac product manager, tells you about some of the service’s future plans, and describes their newest application updates for the Mac and iPhone, which include seamless integration with Facebook, Twitter and other popular social networking services.
NOW PLAYING! February 25, 2010 — Kirk McElhearn, Adam Engst and Lee Givens
i still fail to see the evil here. I fail to see evidence that google has collected any information with wich they can identify me in particular. They read my emails to provide adds in a side bar that may or may not be useful to me. This add is less annoying than TV adds that advertise products that have no idea why someone watching the show in question would buy their product. (they’re kind of spitballing) where the chance that I might want what’s sold in the sidebar is MUCH higher. As for my data. Please tell me that you can support the claim that trusting your data in various fragments of electronics is better than on a redundant enterprise class storage system. (better than industry, which focuses on resale of tech but research class, which focuses on performance)