Google's real-names policy for its social networking service has created a tempest that could have easily been avoided.
There's irony in Google's actions.
The company is known for keeping products in what often seems like "perpetual beta." It ordinarily likes to bake things until they're well done before removing the beta label from them. That kind of patience would have served Google well in the latest situation.
Microsoft researcher and Harvard Berkman Center fellow Danah Boyd didn't mince any words recently when evaluating Google's efforts to enforce a "real names" policy on Google+.
It's "just plain stupid," she declares in her Apophenia blog.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/237466/
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There's irony in Google's actions.
The company is known for keeping products in what often seems like "perpetual beta." It ordinarily likes to bake things until they're well done before removing the beta label from them. That kind of patience would have served Google well in the latest situation.
Microsoft researcher and Harvard Berkman Center fellow Danah Boyd didn't mince any words recently when evaluating Google's efforts to enforce a "real names" policy on Google+.
It's "just plain stupid," she declares in her Apophenia blog.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/237466/
