Comments on: WP.com Shifts Into Turbo

By: BANAGO

BANAGO — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:34:24 +0000

Good news indeed!

By: Rose

Rose — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:12:29 +0000

Yes, I am the one who have a little doubt in mind, what Google will do in the future. As long as I didn’t keep my digital signature in the computer which I use for the internet, I guess that I still be ok.

By: le blog à Ollie » Liens du jour

le blog à Ollie » Liens du jour — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:03:51 +0000

[...] WordPress.com supporte Google Gears. Via Weblog Tools Collection. [...]

By: WordPress.com Adding Gears Support | Danny Thorpe

WordPress.com Adding Gears Support | Danny Thorpe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:32:05 +0000

[...] was surprised to see on other blog posts on this news comments expressing fear of “sending all their data to Google” and the like. [...]

By: paan

paan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:47:20 +0000

google paranoia is mooot.. they’ll get info on you from gmail, google analytics, google web history etc etc. anyways..
even if you don’t use, for example, gmail, then what ever email provider you use will have your emails.. if you host it on your own domain, the hoster have your mails..
my point is whatever you do someone somewhere will be your big brother.. so your choice of weather or not to use the feature should not be dependant on that.. instead weaight the value that it gives to your blog..

By: links for 2008-07-04 (Jarrett House North)

links for 2008-07-04 (Jarrett House North) — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:32:55 +0000

[...] WP.com Shifts Into Turbo (Weblog Tools Collection) Looks like an upcoming version of WordPress will support Google Gears, meaning you can compose, edit, and upload media while you’re offline. (tags: wordpress) [...]

By: ChaosKaizer

ChaosKaizer — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:04:19 +0000

*nod*
I agree with jeff but this seem more like viral promotions for google products.

By: gestroud

gestroud — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:02:09 +0000

I notice it says that approximately 200 files will be downloaded to my hard drive. So, I’m wondering…….. if you have multiple WP sites, will 200 files be downloaded for each WP install?

By: Ulysses Ronquillo

Ulysses Ronquillo — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:49:09 +0000

Google Gears is great. I can’t believe WordPress will have that feature in 2.6. I can’t wait.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:37:58 +0000

Well, it’s not like this is an opt out feature. The Google Gears support is there for anyone who wants to take advantage of it. If you don’t like the thought of Google Gears, simply don’t use it and you’ll have nothing to worry about.

By: PakSpeaker

PakSpeaker — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:29:23 +0000

superb man, great. It will surely help the theme developer too. isnt it ?

By: ChaosKaizer

ChaosKaizer — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:56:21 +0000

HTML5 (uhh working draft) will have a client-storage features and certain browser already implement this advanced features like Firefox (gecko 1.9,2.0 a bit buggy thought) & Safari why do we need third party software like google gears? excerpt from google gears TOS

8.2 Google reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, Google may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content. These tools include the SafeSearch preference settings (see http://www.google.com/help/customize.html#safe). In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:36:10 +0000

Google’s motto is to “do no evil”, right? This should mean that they will not use your information against you … hopefully.

That said, Google does have access to all the information we grant them, whether it’s through GMail, Analytics or anything else that the Big G offers. This information is usually aggregated quite a bit and used during their scenario planning ventures when they’re working out future trends online and answering complex business questions.

Unless someone is super popular, super famous, or super dangerous to a government, we likely have very little to worry about when it comes to what Google will do with the information we willingly give them when signing up for their services

By: ajua

ajua — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:30:18 +0000

I tend to agree with Monika, but on the trojan and big brother part.
However, i do think that having google to access our databases or data, may lead to some unwanted results…

I will try it when WP 2.6 comes out to see and ponder the risks/benefits.

By: Trey Cruz

Trey Cruz — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:57:58 +0000

Geez, what a mood killer

By: Monika

Monika — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:23:02 +0000

I can’t say why, but I would not like to give my data a concern like Google, and I can’t understand the enthusiatic comments. Everybody talk it is fine and good and if someone ask–go to Google…

At Europe we got a trojaner on every pc from our goverment - why should I give them access via gears - ?

Google is a concern who is helping goverments like China with censorship - my faith in this concern is to few to give them my data.

regards
Monika

By: Claude Gelinas

Claude Gelinas — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:33 +0000

Local database and file storage creation and management is awesome!

This could become the single biggest threat to MS-Office as lots of coders will create nifty online data management tools.

By: Mark Ghosh

Mark Ghosh — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:43:59 +0000

Jan: As long as the best practices are followed, Google Gears security is well documented. http://code.google.com/apis/gears/security.html

By: Andrea Beggi » WordPress.com supporta Google Gears

Andrea Beggi » WordPress.com supporta Google Gears — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:07:54 +0000

[...] (Via) Tags: google gears, WordPress [...]

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:04:46 +0000

What about the security? Will Google have full access to my admin-pages? Can Gears be used as a Key-Logger by anyone?