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A burst of 8 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
Violet Blue is none too pleased about Google+ and its policy of insisting on real names, now Vic Gundotra has left:

Google's response was that her outing was "user error" — Google blamed her, the user for not understanding the new, confusing integration.
After Sorenson's nightmare hit the press, more stories emerged from transpeople who had been outed at the hand of Google+, spanning all the way back to the beginning of 2011's Nymwars.
Google+'s appalling, absolute inhuman detachment was probably deemed a necessary price tag attached to the shiny prize of product saturation.
In case you're wondering, the "Hangout" feature was Sergey Brin's idea. Gundotra had told 2011's Web 2.0 audience, "He was intimately behind pushing us to make Hangout happen."
Google+ embodied the Internet's cardinal sin: It broke everything it touched.

The discussion on Hacker News is spirited too. The key problem - highlighted by Blue - is that Google+ is no good for handling people who want to have multiple personalities.
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