That Was The Week

That Was The Week

Cloud based services — the future of the Internet

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Keith Teare
May 03, 2016
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Fred Wilson has a response today to Eric Schmidt’s declaration in Edinburgh that Google+ is an “identity service”. He asks and answers his own question.

“whom Google built this service for? You or them. And the answer to why you need to use your real name in the service is because they need you to.”

Of course Facebook is also an identity service. Facebook…

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