Scratchpad Is Moving to Google Keep
By Dinsan Francis, 11/05/2013
In a no-surprise-here move, Google has made it official that Scratchpad will be moved to Google Keep. This was an expected change because Google stopped development on the official note taking app Scratchpad a couple of months back.
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Use these things at your own peril. If you don’t own it, then you better be prepared for it to disappear some day. Google Reader going away is a big loss for me.
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“Your account (@jasperjottings) is currently suspended. For more information, please visit Suspended Accounts.”
No reason given.
Maybe it was a hack.
Sigh!
Time to change passwords on everything?
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Dear CNET members,
Imagine this: you’re at a beach in Hawaii, snapping photos of your family having the time of their lives. Later, you upload them to your favorite photo-sharing site to show your family and friends on your social network, not giving it a second thought. Two years from now, you go to a travel site to book another trip to Hawaii, and lo and behold, you see a familiar-looking photo in an advertisement for the Hawaii resort you are looking into. You look a bit closer and you realize that in the advertisement is a picture of your kids at the beach that you took two years ago! You wrack your brains trying to figure out how it happened, who did it, and why.
If you think this scenario is a bit frightening or just can’t be, you better take note of this report by CNET writer Declan McCullagh: “Instagram says it now has the right to sell your photos.” Declan reports that with the first major policy shift since Facebook bought the photo-sharing site, Instagram claims the right to sell users’ photos without payment or notification. And if you don’t opt out of this by deleting your Instagram account by January 16, you can’t opt out of it afterward.
So what do you think of this new policy? Do you care that your photos could potentially be used or sold for commercial purposes without being notified? Or do you believe that this is just part of business, and because it’s a free site and the photos that you post on Instagram are made public, this shouldn’t be a shock to anyone? If you are a user of Instagram, are you going to opt out before the deadline? If you aren’t a user of Instagram, does this change how you would use photo-sharing sites in general, and how so? Read Declan’s article and share how you feel!
Lee Koo
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I’ve advise “correspondents” to drop this in favor of the many equivalents.
Not that anyone listens to me.
I wonder how legally defensible the ownership claim could be.
Considering standing and notice.
(I’m not a lawyer; nor do I play one on TV.)
Like shrinkwrap licenses, I think Judge Judy will side with me.
(At least, I hope so. I’d hate to look like a bozo on TV.)
Surprised the politicians haven’t extracted campaign contributions to “permit” this?
FWIW
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This is an important Google Health service announcement. You are receiving this email because you have an active Google Health account.
As we announced in June, 2011, the Google Health service will be discontinued as of January 1, 2013. After that date, any remaining data in your Google Health account will be permanently deleted, and you will no longer be able to access or download any data from Google Health.
If you want to keep using the data you have stored in Google Health, you will need to take action before December 31st, 2012 to download it or transfer it to another online health service. We’ve made this easy for you. All you have to do is:
- go to the Google Health site at https://health.google.com
- log in with your Google account
- follow the on-screen instructions to download your information and close your Google Health account.
For more information, see our help center article at http://www.google.com/support/health/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1347989
Note that, if you log in to Google Health, and are not given an option to download your data, it means that you do not have any data stored in Google Health and you do not need to do anything more.
If you have not retrieved your Google Health data by January 1, 2013, it will be removed from Google’s systems and permanently and irrevocably deleted. Google will be unable to recover any Google Health data for any user after this date.
For more details on the discontinuation of Google Health, see our blog post at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/update-on-google-health-and-google.html, and see answers to frequently-asked questions at http://www.google.com/intl/en/health/faq.html.
Note: you will continue to receive periodic service announcements as long as you have an active Google Health account. If you do not wish to receive further announcements, simply go to https://health.google.com and follow the process to download your data (if desired) and delete your Health account.
Thank you for your support and use of Google Health.
The Google Health Team
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ANYTIME, you have something for “free”, you’re at risk of having “your” data repurposed. Or like Bloomberg did to Merrill Lynch, sold back to you.
“Free” can disappear anytime.
So, the inet is NOT the be all and end all of stuff.
It’s more like a casino or con game.
If you’re not paying for it, it’s not “yours”. And, don’t EVER forget it.
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Gist
We started Gist in 2008 to make connecting with your key contacts faster and easier to help you create stronger business relationships. In February of 2011, we become part of Research In Motion (RIM) to bring the Gist vision to millions of BlackBerry customers. Since our acquisition we built the BlackBerry Playbook Contacts app and more recently, our team has been tasked with creating the native address book/contact manager for the next generation platform, BlackBerry 10.
In addition to our core focus on the Contacts app, we have been given expanded responsibility for everything social at RIM including BlackBerry Messenger, Facebook and Twitter apps and instant messaging as well as much of the identity platform, location services and user analytics features.
With all this responsibility, we feel even more empowered to deliver a truly unique and amazing experience for aggregating, enhancing and connecting you deeply with your key contacts. All of this feels pretty exciting, but you may have noticed limited innovation on the core Gist product offering over the last year. In an effort to make the most of our new focus, we have, with heavy hearts, decided to shutdown the stand-alone Gist service. Sigh.
As of today, we are no longer accepting new users and Gist.com will officially be closing on September 15, 2012. Click here to read the blog post and learn how to get your data out of Gist so you can transition to another service.
Thanks,
The Gist Team
http://www.gist.com
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