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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 3rd day of the 2nd week, the 10th day of the 1st month, the 10th day of 2017, and:
- Houseplant Appreciation Day
- League of Nations Day -- established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect in 1920
- National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
- National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
- National Poetry at Work Day
- Peculiar People Day
- Save the Eagles Day
- Stephen Foster Day
ON THIS DAY: In 49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war and starting a meme about irrevocable choices. In 1776 Thomas Paine published his pamphlet Common Sense. In 1863 the Metropolitan Railway, the world's oldest underground railway, opened between London Paddington station and Farringdon station, marking the beginning of the London Underground. In 1870 John D Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. In 1901 the first great Texas oil gusher was discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas. In 1927 Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis was released in Germany. In 1946 the first General Assembly of the United Nations opened in London; 51 nations were represented. Also in 1946 the US Army Signal Corps successfully bounced radio waves off the Moon and received the reflected signals. In 1962 NASA announced plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission. In 1964 the Beatles' first album in the United States, "Introducing the Beatles," was released.
Been a while since I mentioned this, but I guess it is time to reiterate. I use two sources for the "today is" segment: First I check Brownie Locks and the 3 Bears and then I take a look at CheckiDay. For “on this day” I use multiple sources and occasionally I have to remind you all that it is by no means an inclusive list, but a gathering of happenings that does not usually involve war or politics or disasters because I am only posting things that pique my interest
Today it came to light that Google had very quietly added information to their FAQ on Hangouts announcing that many features would no longer be available as of April of this year. They are planning to move it over to businesses for meetings and would prefer that social users transfer to Allo if they want to chat in text and Duo if they want to use voice and/or video chat even though that entails using two separate apps rather than having the convenience of all your social communications in one place. This is not unprecedented for Google – a quick search shows that they have retired somewhere around 40 programs/apps/platformst. Although they always present it as progress, it seems that their decisions often do not take into account the needs or desires of their users, no matter how popular or widely used the product has been.
While I was not at all sorry to see Buzz or Wave go, losing the Google Reader was a major inconvenience – getting all the blogs and feeds set up on Newsblur took a great deal of time. Losing the iGoogle was an annoyance -- igHome is just more limited in scope. And last, many of us were quite annoyed when Talk stopped working and we were forced onto the more clunky Hangouts. As a result? Although at the moment I use Gmail, Blogger, Chrome and Hangouts – I no longer permit myself to fully rely on any of them. I have to have a backup plan in place at all times given Google might just pull the plug without a lot of warning for no better reason than the techs at Google have decided that they need to move on.
So, with a track record like this, why would any business trust a program or platform from Google to provide important infrastructure?
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