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Voted on poll by Peter Maranci in Google+ Mass MigrationIf we do not manage to find a single ideal replacement for Google Plus (which seems very likely), what would be the maximum number of social media services that you would consider using as a replacement? If you have any specific requirements or thoughts, please feel free to use the comments.

Voted on poll by Thomas Unterstenhoefer in Google+ Mass MigrationWhich network will be your new home? Thanks for voting.

Voted on poll by House Music in House MusicWhat's your favorite House Music style?

Voted on poll by Julian Bond in Motorcycle RoadracingBSB Championship?

Voted on poll by Agron Selimaj in Google+ UpdatesWhat's going on with Locations feature on G+ app.

Voted on poll by datAPoint in Google+ UpdatesWhich is better?

Voted on poll by Noah FriedmanI have a gmail address based on my full name. I am not the only Noah Friedman out there, though. And in the last couple of years at least one of them has started using my gmail address instead of his for school contacts, political campaign mailing lists (republicans in Maryland, ugh), and now, for confirmation and itinerary for his American Airlines travel reservation. Usually the name in the headers is spelled without punctuation but since google ignores punctuation in the local address part (noahfriedman is the same as noah.friedman or even n.o.a.h.f.r.i.e.d.m.a.n) this guy can't be using a variation of our shared name differing only by punctuation. I have no idea how to get in contact with this guy. I occasionally will write back to professors or business contacts to plead with them to PLEASE for the love of god get this other Noah to learn his own actual fucking email address. I am so sorely tempted to go cancel his AA travel reservation. The question for you, my readers, is whether you will be my enabler. (Update: I'm not going to, but keep voting anyway. Especially for pie.)

Voted on poll by Karl LouisWhich Google+ do you use on your desktop or laptop?

Voted on poll by Adrian Marian Maghiar in Valentino RossiVale will start last on the grid in ValenciaGP. Will he win his 10th title? photo courtesy of @Madmark99.

Voted on poll by Douglas Knoyle in MotoGPShould Rossi ride in Valencia?  Note: see separate post about head of Italian sport, CONI President Giovanni Malago, advising Rossi to sit out of the Valencia race.

Voted on poll by Adrian Marian Maghiar in Valentino RossiWill we see Vale on top of the Championship after the SepangGP?

Voted on poll by Douglas Knoyle in MotoGPHow do you make use of MotoGP.com? Do you subscribe to MotoGP.com VideoPass and watch races there?

Voted on poll by Adrian Marian Maghiar in Valentino RossiWill Philip Island GP see Rossi stay ahead in the Championship battle?

Voted on poll by Yonatan Zunger in Politics, Society, and the LawI have magical powers: I can analyze a debate before even watching it. I haven't watched the Democratic debate yet, but I've had a chance to watch social media explode from left and right about it. And I can spot some obvious things from just watching how people are behaving. (1) Nothing particularly important or surprising appears to have been said. If it had been, someone would be talking about it right now. The most exciting line of the evening appears to have been Bernie Sanders saying that everyone was sick of hearing about Clinton's e-mail. (2) Clinton's and Sanders' supporters are both rallying arguments for why their respective candidates won the debate. Clinton's supporters say she obviously won, even though Sanders was the most appealing, because she proved that she was the most serious candidate and could win. Sanders' supporters say he obviously won, because he sparked so much interest and enthusiasm, and he's clearly just drifting behind her so that she will take the flak from the right wing. If you asked me to describe what social media would sound like if nothing particularly significant happened during a debate, that would be it. (3) Everyone seems to agree that Anderson Cooper did a great job as moderator. (4) Huckabee appears to have tried to copy what Sanders did during the first Republican debate by live-tweeting. In his case, that meant making a bunch of generally offensive remarks, in the apparent hope that this would mean that someone decided that he could be unpleasant enough to be taken seriously as a candidate. It doesn't seem to have worked; merely being unpleasant isn't enough to get a Republican nomination nowadays. I continue to not be horribly impressed by the quality of political theater this time around, even if Trump is trying his best to bring back grand guignol. My earlier estimates continue to hold; I'm guessing that Carson will continue as schmuck-of-the-week on the Republican side for a bit longer, as Fiorina didn't quite manage to take off, but ultimately his strategy of saying increasingly nutty things on the air (Vaccines don't work! Jews were responsible for the Holocaust because they gave up their guns!) is going to wear kind of thin, much like it did for Trump. This continues to put Bush in a surprisingly strong place, although I could imagine Fiorina turning around and making something work. On the Democratic side, it continues to look like Clinton will take the nomination, but Sanders' considerable momentum will force both her and the party platform somewhat further to the left. So I'm seeing two major options for the general election, depending largely on what happens on the Republican side. If the R nominee is someone from the frothing and/or bloodthirsty wing of the party, (e.g. Carson or Trump) then Clinton can stay fairly far to the right herself and take a comfortable victory, since while that wing is noisy, it tends to scare a lot of Republicans, as well. If the Republicans nominate someone more moderate (e.g. Bush or Fiorina), Clinton will probably take Sanders' success more to heart and tack further left in order to energize her base, which is going to be a perpetual problem for any Republican moderate to do. (As McCain discovered in 2008, when he tried to do it with Palin and nearly set himself on fire) So a Clinton/{Bush, Fiorina} election will probably involve a more left-wing Clinton against a Republican centrist trying to energize the base without scaring the hell out of their own center (an increasingly tricky proposition), while a Clinton/{Carson, Trump} election would be a walk-off for Clinton. My money is on the former. Maybe we need a better choice. I've seen three very promising insurgent campaigns so far: Cthulhu 2016: When you're tired of choosing the lesser of two evils. Guy Fawkes: The only man ever to enter Parliament with honest intentions. Strange Women Lying in Ponds Distributing Swords: I've seen worse methods of choosing a leader.

Voted on poll by Douglas Knoyle in MotoGPShould MotoGP keep the current two class format? I just replied to the NICKY HAYDEN-to-SBK news that +Melissa LuvsPlease posted, but it caused me to finely get vocal about this ... there is too much talent that gets pushed to the back because of their 2nd class rides. I don't have a solution, but don't think I like the current two class format of MotoGP. Thoughts?

Voted on poll by Adrian Marian Maghiar in Valentino RossiWill MotegiGP see Rossi inch closer to his 10th title?

Voted on poll by Adrian Marian Maghiar in Valentino RossiSilverstoneGP is here. Any chance for Vale to lead the Championship after this one?

Voted on poll by Nikhil Mohan in Google+ UpdatesNow that Google is unbundling the Google plus social network, Should Google take over Twitter

Voted on poll by Alex Reusch in Google+ UpdatesIntegrate G+ Events into Google Calendar I would like to see G+ Events being integrated into Google Calendar. Why? Let me explain: There are two different types of events, which a calendar app should support today: a.) Standard This type is used for events without any special social character. Typically for planning and reminding appointments such as general meetings, appointment for the dentist etc. So normally for things I don't associate with my usual social network. Google calendar does currently support only this type of events. b.) Social This type is used for events, where I have a deeper connection with the people or the event itself has a special nature. Examples are: Birthday parties, weekend trips, night out with friends etc. For this kind of events, I want to have the ability to exchange ideas, have conversations, share photos etc. This is where I use G+ Events today, because it allows me to do all those things. The problem with the actual Google Calendar is, that it does not allow me to create a G+ event. For this, I have to switch over to the G+ application and create the event from there, which then finally also will be visible in Google calendar. It would be really nice, if it would be possible to create such a social event (G+ Event) directly from the calendar app (Web and Mobile). How could this be done? Simply when creating an event in Google Calendar, have a check box which asks: "Do you want to create a social event?". If checked, it will enable the features of a G+ Event. Also, I believe that it would push the usage of Events outside of the limited G+ community. What do you think +Google / +Gmail / +Google+ / +Google+ Events ???

Voted on poll by Shinji Mikami in MotoGP2015 MotoGP Season is coming. Who will be the new World Champion?

Voted on poll by Clara Bush in Sci-Fi"Our future is in space." —Stephen Hawking                            Do you agree? (Image by geralt on Pixabay)

Voted on poll by Yonatan Zunger in Brief DispatchesWhen you read the sentence "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel," what is the first color that comes to your mind? (This was pointed out to me a while ago as an interesting example of how the meaning of a sentence can change over time. For those unfamiliar with it, it's the first sentence of William Gibson's classic novel, Neuromancer. The epoch in which you first encountered television can profoundly change your interpretation of a scene.)

Voted on poll by Carter Loose in Google+ UpdatesDo you think Google+ should give you the ability to post photos in the comments box like Facebook does?

Voted on poll by Max HuijgenDo you follow the +1 recommendations in your stream? These posts which only show up in your stream because they have been plussed by people you are following. Basically they act as recommendations and as a way to discover new people and content. Some people don't want to make their plusses visible so they have disabled them. I don't know how many people did, but I guess you guys would vote for the first option.

Voted on poll by Max HuijgenWhat operating system do people on G+ use most? If you follow the topics around here, you would think Windows is as good as dead, Linux is it's successor and Chrome laptops are the new king in town. But is it true? What operating system do you actually use most of the day including the computer at work, not what you prefer, not what you would like to use, not what other people should use,, but what's currently driving your most used desktop / laptop * * If you have both, answer the poll with the device you use most. * Chrome OS is an operating system, don't vote for it if Chrome is your browser as in that case you still run some other operation system (which might be Chrome OS of course ;) #OperatingSystem #Windows #MacOS #OSX #Linux #Chrome  #ChromeOS   #Android   #iOS  

Voted on poll by Alex Reusch in Google+ UpdatesWhy G+ needs a unified contact manager Managing contacts inside the Google ecosystem is broken. And we need to have this fixed ASAP. This feature request goes back to some very old posts of mine. I have refined my thoughts and includes some additional arguments in this post. If you want to read the referred original requests, I have the links integrated at the bottom of this post. » Summary Today, contact management is fragmented and inconsistent. People are managing different islands of contact information, spread all over their communication devices and social media platforms. Bringing these islands together to one centralized and consistent platform will result in a paradigm shift. » Why is G+ the solution? While a mobile phone OS (such as Android) does integrate multiple social networks (G+, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing etc.), multiple contact sources will result in duplicate contacts. Most of the actual devices do offer contact merging, but it is mainly a manual process and solves only a small part of the problem. Well, it does merge duplicate contacts into one, but it cannot handle redundant data fields such as phone numbers, email addresses etc. As a result, you will find contacts that include multiple mobile phone numbers, even if the referred person only has one mobile phone. In a positive example, you will have the same number on all entries. In a negative example, you will see different numbers. The question is: Which is the right one? Also, merging contacts is device specific. When you change the device (want to get the new Nexus?) or simply do a factory reset, all of your manual merged contacts will be separated again. Start over! That's why contact management has to be solved in the cloud. » My feature request for G+ Google should integrate a unified contact manager into the "People" section of Google+. The contact manager should integrate and merge contact information from all relevant social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing etc.). Of course it requires state of the art listing functions like alphabetical order or grouped in circles (similar to what "Contacts" offers today). Just to make it clear for everybody: This unified contact manager will be the new source for all of your contacts. And yes, it would also replace the contact manager (today called "People") on your Android phone. Can you imagine? The most powerful contact management system on a billon+ devices? Would this give G+ a boost? For sure. Main Features of the unified contact manager: (You can see the details of my concept, by clicking on "Zoom image" on the upper right corner of the attached image) 1.) Show Connected Profiles In the G+ profiles settings, you should simply add all of your social networks. G+ unified contact manager then pulls all contacts from those social networks and will automatically list the connected profiles (how you are connected with a contact) for each individual contact. 2.) Map data fields and select source network To handle the problem with multiple entries for the same data field (such as a mobile phone number), the unified contact manager should map the same data fields correctly and allow to set the update source (which social network will be used to populate this field). There should be the following options available for setting the update source: a.) Automatically Last Updated (selects the data field from the social network, which represents the last updated information). b.) A fixed selection of a specific network of your connected profiles (for example: set it fix to Facebook) c.) Manual entry of a value, in case that no data is available for this field through the connected social networks For each imported data field, it should also show the actual data source. This is an important information, when you have selected "Automatically Last Updated", to see which network is the actual data provider. » Links to original post for this request "Is Google's contact management THE killer app for Google+ ???" http://goo.gl/AKrMzo  (April 2012) Google+ Contact Manager http://goo.gl/SJuZTx  (August 2013) Now it's on you! Do you think we need a unified contact manager inside G+? Please vote and share this poll to your extended network. Cheers, Alex

Voted on poll by Alex Reusch in Google+ UpdatesG+ - What's next? What is your most wanted feature for G+?

Voted on poll by Edward MorbiusGoogle have released their newest G+ feature:  integrated polls In his recent ReCode interview,  +Dave Besbris  mentioned privacy prominently several times. http://recode.net/2014/10/07/new-google-head-david-besbris-were-here-for-the-long-haul-qa/ [Our users] love that Google+ has privacy built in as a feature from the very beginning [and] nuanced sharing. In light of that, I'd really like to hear how poll data themselves are being stored, processed, interpreted, utilized, shared, or otherwise made use of by Google?  Is there any update to the Google / G+ privacy policy to reflect this? I've asked that question of +Dave Besbris, +Dennis Troper, and +Yonatan Zunger on recent posts of theirs. Is the polling feature strictly limited to recording and presentation of preferences on an individual post or other item, or is it somehow linked to user data as preferences, semantic parsing, etc.? How about an option for anonymous polling? Poll posts aren't distinguished withing HTML/CSS from others, so I cannot simply suppress them.  Alternatively, G+ should provide a global opt-out from any polling activities. We already know that Google is doing downright creepy stuff such as reading and parsing emails, creating datapoints based on this, and then using those to create entirely novel events in other products: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101040998703128232705/posts/HsLzGiwYsHh And so I present my first G+ Poll: What's your response to G+ polls as concerns privacy?.

Voted on poll by Madhav Vij in Google+ UpdatesWhat you think of the new polls? Suggestions in comments