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Vagrancy: Oct 15, 2005; Master of procrastination

Werthog 95 posted:

circles was a good idea

starting your own social network based on one feature that could easily be rolled into facebook? not so much

the prob with g+ is its not a product, its an architecture. its a centralised loose grab bag of features so that instead of multiple teams doing social badly in isolation, they can do social badly once and have it spread everywhere. they never actually got round to defining it for the user.

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

google plus has made it difficult for me to post snarky comments under my pseudonym on youtube

the sad thing is the new system is actually more flexible than the old: instead 1 goog account= 1 channel, its now 1 goog account = 50 psuedonym channels + 1 real name channel.

people are so busy trying to escape real names that they never even get the chance to read the dialog

# ¿ Apr 25, 2014 00:30

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 17:15

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Shifty Pony posted:

come on, how the hell is this OK to do?

according to the information its the major labels who pushed youtube to build this subscription service in the first place, in parallel to the one anroid already has

goog just sees the obvious: the only way getting people to pay actual money has even the slightest chance of working is if the premium featureset applies to every single music video on yt. if there are gaps it undermines the entire premise making it altogether useless at increasing margins/quelling people from ripping music directly out of the videos - the very reasons they wanted it in the first place.

playing rough is the only language the music industry understands

# ¿ May 22, 2014 18:41

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Boxturret posted:

is there an image of what the little prism thing looks like when you're wearing it? all the footage i've seen is obviously edited

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3WLILYhQs

# ¿ Jun 5, 2014 17:57

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Necc0 posted:

use mctube it's much better. it also lets you play music with the screen locked which google still hasn't figured out people want for some autistic reason

so they can charge for that with the youtube subscription service later this year

after which theyll send cease and desists to all the 3rd party apps theyre ignoring

Snapchat A Titty posted:

i deleted the youtube app off my phone last week

it started pestering me about google plus just like the goddamn webpage so gently caress that noise

is it so hard to understand taht i dont want my name on my youtube you fuckers

you dont have to use your realname, youre prob just closing the box so quickly you didnt see the option for it:

# ¿ Jun 14, 2014 20:30

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quote:

YouTube is about to begin a mass cull of music videos by artists including Adele and the Arctic Monkeys, after a number of independent record labels refused to sign up to the licensing terms for its new subscription service. The Google-owned company will start blocking videos �in a matter of days� to ensure that all content on the platform is governed by its new contractual terms, said Robert Kyncl, YouTube�s head of content and business operations.

Record labels representing 90 per cent of the music industry have signed up to the new terms, Mr Kyncl said. The remaining 10 per cent, which are asking European regulators to intervene, will be blocked from the platform. �While we wish that we had 100 per cent success rate, we understand that is not likely an achievable goal and therefore it is our responsibility to our users and the industry to launch the enhanced music experience,� Mr Kyncl told the Financial Times.

The new paid-for tier will be part of YouTube�s existing apps and websites, which have more than 1bn monthly visitors. For a monthly fee, users will be able to watch videos or listen to music without adverts, on any of their devices, even when not connected to the internet. YouTube will start Google-wide internal testing of its new subscription-based offering in the coming days, Mr Kyncl said. This will allow the company to polish the user interface and remove any bugs, before making it available to the public later in the summer.

[...]

Mr Kyncl said YouTube was offering all rights holders a good deal, though he did not go into details of the contracts. �We�re paying them fairly and consistently with the industry,� he said.
But many independent labels, which are represented by the rights agency Merlin, disagree. XL Recordings, whose artists include Adele and The XX, and Domino, the label behind the Arctic Monkeys, are understood to be among the indie labels holding out for a better deal. Impala, a trade body for independent music companies, is appealing to the European Commission for assistance, arguing that YouTube has abused a dominant position in the market to force small record labels into accepting unfavourable terms.

One label boss said the big problem with YouTube�s new licensing agreement was not to do with the paid tier, but rather that it allowed YouTube to make substantial enhancements to its free tier. His fear is that YouTube�s free tier will become so attractive that it will reduce the number of people willing to pay for subscription services such as Spotify or Deezer. Mr Kyncl said such concerns were unfounded. YouTube�s �ultimate goal� is to make �features that fans love� and drive as many people as possible to paying for them, he said. Since it was acquired by Google in 2006, YouTube has paid out more than $1bn to the music industry through licensing deals that allow rights holders to take a share of its advertising revenues. �That number is going to double soon,� said Mr Kyncl.

# ¿ Jun 17, 2014 15:35

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quote:

When we launched Google+ over three years ago, we had a lot of restrictions on what name you could use on your profile. This helped create a community made up of real people, but it also excluded a number of people who wanted to be part of it without using their real names.

Over the years, as Google+ grew and its community became established, we steadily opened up this policy, from allowing +Page owners to use any name of their choosing to letting YouTube users bring their usernames into Google+. Today, we are taking the last step: there are no more restrictions on what name you can use.

We know you've been calling for this change for a while. We know that our names policy has been unclear, and this has led to some unnecessarily difficult experiences for some of our users. For this we apologize, and we hope that today's change is a step toward making Google+ the welcoming and inclusive place that we want it to be. Thank you for expressing your opinions so passionately, and thanks for continuing to make Google+ the thoughtful community that it is.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/+googleplus/posts/V5XkYQYYJqy

# ¿ Jul 15, 2014 22:16

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cremnob posted:

http://www.benedelman.org/publications/google-tying-2014-10-26.pdf

# ¿ Dec 10, 2014 08:13

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hifi posted:

the youtube logo font looks bad though, which is all i noticed

# ¿ Aug 29, 2017 22:30

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# ¿ Aug 7, 2018 01:53

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Anne Frank Funk posted:

is material design a thing anymore? the new chome, both desktop and ios, sure as poo poo looks nothing like it.

google: immaterial design

google "updated" material design this year so that its no longer a single design system, but a meta design system for creating design systems (via "material theming").

chome uses the "google material theme", which is an altogether distinct thing from the "material design 2014 theme" you remember (and which actually still exists independently as the baseline theme within the overarching material design system)

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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 17:15

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsoQGTA1SxY

# ¿ Oct 9, 2018 15:56

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