More Google, More Problems

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July 24, 2011

“A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names…”

Over at ZDNet, Violet Blue has a roundup of what looks to be a significant misstep for Google. Some users are reporting that all their Google services have been shut down, while others are reporting that just their Google+ account has been closed.

Looking through my account, it does appear they’ve shut down profiles for a couple of small presses and magazines who are “in my circles” (I do feel ridiculous saying that). That’s not cool.

Personally, I hope they sort it out. I like Google+ quite a lot, at least so far, but this is going to scare a lot of people away, including me, at least for a little while.

BSKY

Seth Fischer

Seth Fischerâ€™s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writerâ€™s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

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Samuel Sargent

July 25, 2011

Here’s an interesting post from Robert Scoble derived from a conversation he had with Google VP Vic Gundotra about the matter:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/111091089527727420853/posts/Fddn6rV8mBX

He takes responsibility for what’s going on and admits that some mistakes were made, but that they’re trying to improve the process.