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I was thinking of using Path as a personal diary. But not anymore. Just deleted Path app. I would suggest everyone to do the same. A lesson for Path and others.

Thanks for assembling this list!

Moved my hosting service out of Godaddy. Next is to move my domain name as well.

This is absurd. Instead of not collecting data for children Google is blocking access to children. I am seriously looking for alternatives to Gmail. Any suggestions? I don't want my email account hooked up to a social network and advertising machinery.

how come foursquare and twitter were not there in the list?

I think Coda did a good job in posting Yammer's official position clarifying the situation and it's a captivating blog post.

Many people (including some people on HN) started criticizing Yammer because they decided to go back to Java. This blog post was in some sense necessary for Yammer.

You are forgetting Google Buzz/Wave/Knoll, services that are shut down after launching with a lot of fanfare. Now days every time Google launches a new service I am not sure whether that service will be around for another year or so.

Except search I have lost faith in Google to solve my problems with new services. Google's main aim seems to be to serve ads. All the services they have launched for free is to serve more ads. They copy popular services to serve more ads, make it free, and kill competition.

There are three possible outcomes for startups: (1) failure; (2) marginally successful; and (3) enormously successful. In case of (1) and (2) employees hardly make any money, and early employees may make money in case (3). More than 99% startups' outcome is either (1) or (2).

I feel startup world is highly skewed in favor of investors and founders. I have worked at a startup and now I would think twice before working for another startup, since rewards don't add up to effort and time because of odds.

I had similar experiences with Wikipedia. First time, I added some references and definitions related to a theoretical computer science concept and it was deleted for no reason.

Since then I stopped making edits unless something is incorrect.

R in Nutshell is pretty good book: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596801717.do

I agree with you nirvana. I have been using Google search for 12 years and Gmail for 7 years. But recently Google has been trying to do each and everything.

Google+ tied with enormous Google adsense+display ads reach is scary. Google has recently started putting +1 button on their display ads. And may be soon they will put +1 button on text ads. And then any site you visit with Google ads, Google will know who you are.

More and more I am feeling Google's focus is ads not social, mobile, etc. Google+ and Android is just there to reach out and target ads better, which makes me sick :(

I am curious why would you blog about an interview. Most companies ask you to sign an NDA before the interview. Isn't posting a blog about the interview a violation of NDA?

Google and many other companies route their overseas earnings to Bermuda through Ireland and Holland, and effectively pay 2.4% tax on that money since Bermuda doesn't have any corporate taxes: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-21/google-2-4-rate-sho...

I started keeping separate browsers for my gmail,FB accounts and the rest of the web.

I signed up on Gmail to use the email, not for my identity management/profile for other things (say ad targeting). Google should let us choose disconnect our gmail, google+, youtube accounts.