Hi all invites still available Google plus if you are interested please follow the instructions below and I will send your invite out later today
Invites are currently open again for Google+ if you would like one please > e-mail me your Gmail address to <[email protected]> sorry no Google Apps > customers with your full name and e-mail address. > You may not be able to get in straight away but registrations have been > opened the last two days between 1 and 5 AM, You are also welcome to respond > to this e-mail on list if you would prefer. -- Regards Kyle ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kyle Kreusch: This E-Mail Was Dictated Using One OF Nuance Communications, Dictate Products ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *User Next*, *Apple and Macintosh User Group*: Website<http://usernext.org/>| Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/UserNext> | Twitter<http://twitter.com/UserNext> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Glenn Nicholas <[email protected]> wrote: > Google gets a perpetual, irrevocable licence to your content on Google+. > > Facebook also gets rights to content you upload to Facebook ... > "For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos > and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following > permission, subject to yourprivacy <http://www.facebook.com/privacy/> and > application > settings <http://www.facebook.com/editapps.php>: you grant us a > non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license > to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP > License"). " > > You can kind-of take back what you have given to Facebook ...but there is a > catch: > "This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account > unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted > it." > > Seems social media is a bit like Hotel Calfornia: you can check out > anytime, but you might not really leave. > > Glenn Nicholas > > > > > > On 11 July 2011 10:29, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Hello Paul, >> >> If you are having a ‘jab’ at me for asking WAMUG members to check before >> they sign-up for Google+ , I’m very disappointed. >> >> Look at the times members have downloaded and installed something without >> finding out all the details first, and then we (the members who give support >> on WAMUG) try to sort out for them. >> >> That is why we try to inform members to “read the fine print”, do some >> research before ‘jumping in feet first’ (for lack of a better term). >> I’m not ‘inciting fear’ into people, I’m just trying to get them to be >> aware of what they are signing up for or installing, so they don’t make an >> ‘error of judgement’ and then have to pay the consequences. >> >> All I’m trying to do is alert WAMUG Members to “Read the Fine Print BEFORE >> You Sign Up”. >> >> Paul, have you read the "Google Terms of Service”? >> I have! >> This section in particular: >> >> /Begin Quote: >> >> “By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a >> perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license >> to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly >> display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or >> through, the Services.” >> >> “You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such >> Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals with whom >> Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to >> use such Content in connection with the provision of those services.” >> >> “You understand that Google, in performing the required technical steps to >> provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your >> Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such >> changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content >> to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or >> media. You agree that this license shall permit Google to take these >> actions.” >> >> /End Quote: >> >> <http://www.google.com/accounts/TOS> >> >> Regards, >> Ronni >> >> >> On 11/07/2011, at 8:01 AM, Paul K wrote: >> >> > Hi All, >> > >> > Yes, scepticism is a healthy thing. >> > >> > Fear however clouds our judgement. >> > >> > Many sites out there, not just social networking ones, require >> information from their members to function meaningfully. >> > So if Google+ requires information as a cost to the user it must offer a >> benefit as a reward. >> > It is up to the individual user to assess if the deal is a good one for >> them. >> > I am still yet to see any "risk" in this and I fear there is unfounded >> fears being whipped up here. I am not saying 'join Google+'. I am saying be >> realistic. You take a bigger risk eating chicken from a bayne marie but you >> do it, no? >> > Sure FB has had some bad things happen, but do you hear Today Tonight >> shouting about the benefits from their rooftop? Or Ronni for that matter? >> > >> > You need to remember that no social situation is without risk; 'don't >> mention war or politics at the dinner table'. The risk is that you will show >> your opinion leaving you open to opposing views. Big woop. If you don't like >> that kind of heat why would you consciously ask to be allowed in the >> kitchen? A: for the benefits of an open conversation with other people. >> > You weigh the "risk(?)" and make the choice. >> > >> > Sorry but I'm a bit hung up on that word "risk". To me it comes across >> as hyperbole. >> > >> > Cheers >> > Paul >> >> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> >> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
