Concur. Nice to have validation from such a reputable source.
I pray that we can rely upon this new, creative Google development team to meet new friends, create better understanding between various cultures, close the gap between political, religious enemies and perhaps even save some children during the next disaster.
Here's where you show your naivete. In short, "dream on." Not only are all humans fallible, not only is all aggregation of information an aggregation of a form of power and therefore subject to the standard and infallible litany of abuses of power, but this one is has Russian DNA. You wanna trust that?
Oh, I almost forgot: Death before Facebook.
Google blows. Any private info into Google is a straight pipeline to the government.
If one needs communication links for emergency purposes, it is not rudent to rely on “free” services.
The author only repeats this mistake by going from facebook to google’s buzz.
...the last news story I wrote before I was disabled by Facebook was entitled: Israel Rushes Humanitarian Aid, IDF Rescue Units To Haiti, Opens Facebook Group... But the very day that I stepped into Haiti and needed to share life saving logistics -- the locations of trapped people and starving children -- Mark, your social networking site said good-bye to me... I had my Facebook account disabled a few times in the past by Islamic cyber terrorists, impostors and even some jealous Jewish hackers. Each time after being disabled by Facebook, after about two long weeks of not being in communication with friends, governmental, non-profit contacts and business associates, one of your employees would apologize and state that they were sorry for the inconvenience... today, I can't even communicate with your corporate public relations or support staff as some hacker or hackers have placed a filter on our email communications between my hard drive and your Facebook servers... support people even requested that I send them a government issued ID, just to verify that the Facebook account that I was using was really mine... Facebook demands complete and total transparency by the end user, yet we - the end users cannot even find one telephone or fax number at Facebook! We the end users are not even provided with the most basic protection at Facebook to avoid ID theft... can Facebook kill people? Yes, if we rely upon facebook for emergency and or disaster communications. Something I did in Haiti. Please do not apologize to me this time around. Apologize to those kids in Haiti that we could not reach because my Facebook account had been disabled and your Facebook staff could not take the effort nor the time to make a telephone call or provide a secure fax number to the IDF Field Hospital in Haiti or the orphanage that we rebuilt in Port au Prince.Thanks IsraelBeach.