Google has been intensely focused on quality control over the Google+ social network. Upon launching, Google+’s policies stated that people must use real names rather than pseudonyms. On top of that, they insist that people do not include “mature or offensive content” including the middle finger as MG Siegler learned the hard way. Without telling Siegler, his photo was removed so he replaced it with the one above. Below is what Siegler had to say about his photo being removed.
Michael Arrington has poached MG Siegler from AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL). Siegler was brought into AOL through the acquisition of TechCrunch, a tech blog founded by Arrington. TechCrunch was sold to AOL for roughly $25-$30 million. AOL is also an investor in CrunchFund. Siegler will become a general partner at CrunchFund. Siegler has been approached by numerous VC companies and other writing gigs since he became a top editor at TechCrunch. [Uncrunched]
Yesterday Google’s Vic Gundotra told TechCrunch that the way the company handled the Google+ brands pages was “probably a mistake.” Given the backlash Google is currently receiving for their poor handling of Google+ business accounts, it’s good to hear Google acknowledge their mistakes. Google warned Google+ users that the service is currently for real people only and that brands would be shut down, but when the culling happened yesterday, no one seemed prepared. Furthermore, a few people were extremely vocal about their displeasure with the situation. Possibly because the situation hasn’t exactly gone the way it was announced.
MG Siegler at TechCrunch took a video of the matrix-style wall at WWDC in San Francisco today. Apple had many Cinema Display monitors that were mounted together displaying a collage of the all of the application icons in the iTunes App Store. The applications were apparently arranged by color.
The applications supposedly pulsated every time that it was bought or downloaded. If that was the case, then we know that Daily Motivation must have pulsated a bunch of times today. I think this is a good way for Apple to give props to all of the hard working developers out there that have contributed to the 50,000 applications and over 1 billion downloads.
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