'identity' Category

• Google Apps Users Can’t Use Google Plus or Plus 1

  [Update 2011/11/05: Google has now made Google Apps and Google Plus interoperate. If you have problems, try signing out of Apps and Plus and clearing your cookies. I've still got a problem with how this was done - no email notification that it was fixed, and I didn't see anything in the Apps management console [...]

  July 11th, 2011

• Google Plus Shows More Identity Confusion at Google

  Google *really* don’t get how confusing they’ve made user identity. I’m required to have a new Google Account for every AdWords Account I open. Admittedly most of our work on AdWords has been fixing existing accounts rather than starting new ones, but I’ve still personally started tens of accounts. That means that I have tens [...]

  July 5th, 2011

• Experimental Results: Blog Spammers Do Target Comments

  I said that I’d be testing whether I had substantially reduced blog spamming on this blog’s articles, by changing the string that announced where to leave a comment or response to an article. The first thing to check is whether this blog, post-Caffeine and post-Panda, is still substantially where it used to be in search [...]

  May 22nd, 2011

• Google Authentication and Identity Confusion

  Google really doesn’t get this stuff about identity, phishing, authentication and accreditation. We join various Google services for various purposes, often involving handing over money associated with advertising or other paid services. So it’s pretty important for us to be sure that we really are dealing with Google, and not some fraudulent site. The screenshot [...]

  March 11th, 2011

• Google Buzz, Mac, Chrome, Apple Mail and iPad

  Like many Internet Marketeers that I know, I’m delighted to use a MacBook for the majority of my desktop and mobile usage. One of my problem areas for using Google’s technology stack is that Safari isn’t fully supported – not to the extent that FireFox and nominally Chrome are. One example being that Gears on [...]

  February 15th, 2010

• Search Engine Optimisers, Spam and Reputation Management

  I detest spam. I don’t like it in my email. I don’t like it on websites and reading the spam dropped into blog comments leaves me feeling tainted. I’m also involved in online reputation management for a few clients, and spam that involves the clients’ name can be very hard to work with. This issue [...]

  June 17th, 2009

• Search & Identity

  Google can now show personal information in search results, in the USA. The Google Profiles feature doesn’t appear to be fully enabled elsewhere in the world, possibly because it appears to be close-coupled to the “knol” identity verification process, which is restricted to the US for the moment. As Google Profiles rolls out, it will [...]

  April 22nd, 2009