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YOU MAY COMMENT on any of the 2337 posts archived here! 11 June: Twitter can be embedded on your site... 2 June: YouTube Channel Explorations begin 14 May: Dark Web vs. Clear Web, a side dish for internet explorers 21 April: Make your own GSuite Add-Ons 19 April: New info on Currents (beta); Memory Lane posts continue to expand 13 April: Check it out! Chat/Message button added at top center. 12 April: New to "Resources" is Facebook's G+ Meetup Digital Library .  We are now incorporating selected posts from surviving Communities on GSuite G+, mostly Eli Fennell's & "People Left Behind on G+" Post comments are often as interesting as the original post, so be sure to click "READ MORE!"   Our final G+ Mass Migration Community update from Google+ occurred at 4:20PM Eastern Daylight Time on 2 April 2019 .  Blog comments are "moderated" (reviewed by the blog owner), so they may take awhile to post. Make suggest

First, the commentary you may not have heard via Listen Notes : Google Plus in Podcasts: a look back Meanwhile, there are some good YouTube videos , too. This clever piece is from SAMTIME:  (From the video above: 😉) Hi! I'm Sam Tucker from Google and it's with a heavy heart that today we're announcing that we will be shutting down Google Plus. Now I know this may come as a shock from a company with experience with other social networks like Orkut but it just felt that people weren't getting the value from our platform anymore. In fact our studies showed that ninety percent of visits were over in less than five seconds! To be honest it probably would have been a hundred percent except people didn't realize that they could skip before that. We're not entirely sure why people didn't use the platform. I mean we forced them to as you remember. We made everyone who was on YouTube sign up for the service and the reason we did that is

Criminals impersonate. That is what they do. They pretend they are your bank, your stock broker, your trusted friend, your Mom😲. But they are not. Sites displaying the above symbols in their addresses are safer than others with the old "HTTP" designation without the "s". As the FBI explains , however, these sites are not absolutely trustworthy and secure😞. Criminals are using this symbolism to give you a false sense of security. Here's a copy of the FBI statement: →Local FBI Field Office Locations ⇉File Complaint⇇  (put "HTTPS phishing" in the body) With a tip of the hat for this announcement to DarkReading

You Can Embed Your Tweets Twitter will assist you . Embedded below are my latest tweets, using some of Twitter's editing tools. I suspect it might be best if I created Collections on Twitter , thus dividing my creative political content from my other projects. Tweets by spiderdawg1

Influential Channels edited from Daily YouTube Recommendations work in progress: updated 3 June 2019 Not sure whether anyone will find this useful, but I'm having fun exploring YouTube's expansive resources...  

Pwned? What's Next? T he first step in fixing anything is knowing that it is broken. On the internet, a "break" in your security will not always be reported to you. Sometimes you have to take the initiative. Fortunately, you can employ a free detective to discover email data breaches. Thanks to Troy Hunt ! (from Wikipedia) Created by Troy Hunt in 2013, and since incorporated as an optional extension in Firefox and Chrome, haveibeenpwned.com is yours to use free of charge.  According to Wikipedia , Have I Been Pwned? ( HIBP , with "Pwned" pronounced like "poned" [2] ) is a website that allows internet users to check if their personal data has been compromised by data breaches . The service collects and analyzes hundreds of database dumps and pastes containing information about billions of leaked accounts, and allows users to search for their own information by entering their username or email address. Users can also sign up t

  Sad that G+ has gone? Could be worse. From Facebook: Julian Bond shared a link . Founding Member, Google+ Meetup · May 19 at 11:49 PM Sad that G+ has gone? Could be worse. You could have a Huawei phone and be blocked from Google updates. Or even worse than that, be a kidnapped Huawei Princess. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/may/19/google-huawei-trump-blacklist-report https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/06/world/canada/huawei-meng-wanzhou-arrest.html ... See More theguardian.com Google blocks Huawei access to Android updates after blacklisting Comments Terry McNeil Holy shit, my daughter has a Huawei. I'll have to let her know this. Julian Bond It's not entirely clear yet the effect on existing phones. This may be about full release updates for the OS (eg from 8.1 to 9.0) rather than just not getting a Maps update. And to

What's the Difference? image by Michael Podger , designer, West Yorkshire "Dew on a Web" Clear Web The "Clear Web" is the experience you are enjoying now. Searchable using common search engines, sites here are reliable and get millions of hits over time. Privacy? Forget it. Your IP address is often tracked by advertisers and others eager to see your preferences and sell merchandise or opinion. Optionally, "Private" versions of popular browsers limit this activity by deleting information between browser sessions, but while you are live online browser plugins such as Flash, RealPlayer, Quicktime and others can be manipulated into revealing your IP address. Dark Web (aka "DarkNet") Anonymity is the whole point of the Dark Web. Providing you do not install plugins or addons, the Tor browser that you will be using to navigate the Dark Web bounces your activity all over the web so that your original IP address is unt

Scott Scowcroft People Left Behind on G+ Apr 25, 2019 Something I wasn't expecting. I am still able to download my Gplus Communities and Posts, and a few photos. No videos, however. Janne Granström What this is? 2w Scott Scowcroft Google+ Exporter was/is software that allowed you to download your Google Plus profile, posts, community posts and more. It was a substitute to Google's "Take Out." Presumably, everything GPlus was going to disappear as of April 2nd, so that's why I was surprised Google+ Exporter is still working. 2w Rupert +1 + Scott Scowcroft it wouldn’t work anymore on consumer G+ profiles, though I don’t see why it would stop working for gsuite profiles 2w Add a comment...

For those keeping track... From Facebook's Google+ Meetup public group and member Julian Bond Founding Member · April 26 at 11:36 AM Various bits of G+ are finally disappearing. MyAccount. Personal Info, People and Sharing. Tagline and Bio has disappeared. Privacy controls have changed. Everything set to private until you enable it. It's still not clear to me how much of this is ever shown and where. https://myaccount.google.com Very little of Takeout left. https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/circles,plus_one,plus_communities,stream,profile Is now almost completely empty. G+Photos from posts still seems to be complete. https://get.google.com/albumarchive/ 7 Al Mac, Christian Nalletamby and 5 others 2 Comments Seen by 89 Like Comment Share Comments Christian Nalletamby Wonder what they'll do with "contacts" info. I had all birthdays displayed in "Calendar", mo