Comments on: Google’s Remote Sign Out and Knowing Your Customer http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2008/07/googles-remote-sign-out-and-knowing-your-customer/ Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:11:54 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeff http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2008/07/googles-remote-sign-out-and-knowing-your-customer/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Jeff Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:48:38 +0000 http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/?p=26#comment-13 @Abu Yaha - All very good points. While I do connect to Gtalk with Adium or <a href="http://www.meebo.com" rel="nofollow">Meebo</a>, I don't use it directly from Gmail so remote logout for Gtalk wasn't something I really thought about. Correct about Remember Me too. I'm not a fan of implementing that feature on any account that could, potentially, contain sensitive data. Regardless, we see it everywhere as supposed convenience. I really prefer Firefox's save-passwords implementation, which prompts the user for a master password before auto-filling any logins, and asks the user before saving any login data. @Abu Yaha – All very good points. While I do connect to Gtalk with Adium or Meebo, I don’t use it directly from Gmail so remote logout for Gtalk wasn’t something I really thought about.

Correct about Remember Me too. I’m not a fan of implementing that feature on any account that could, potentially, contain sensitive data. Regardless, we see it everywhere as supposed convenience. I really prefer Firefox’s save-passwords implementation, which prompts the user for a master password before auto-filling any logins, and asks the user before saving any login data.

]]> By: Abu Yahya http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2008/07/googles-remote-sign-out-and-knowing-your-customer/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Abu Yahya Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:04:42 +0000 http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/?p=26#comment-15 I agree that it's a wonderful feature by Google, a company that makes software according to the needs of the people, rather than forcing people the company's way. However, it seems unfortunate that this feature is not yet implemented for Google Talk. This is also equally important, since someone can easily open the inbox from a logged in Google Talk account. Not only that, the "Remember Me" feature is disastrous, since it doesn't forget you even after you provide an incorrect username and password. I agree that it’s a wonderful feature by Google, a company that makes software according to the needs of the people, rather than forcing people the company’s way.

However, it seems unfortunate that this feature is not yet implemented for Google Talk. This is also equally important, since someone can easily open the inbox from a logged in Google Talk account. Not only that, the “Remember Me” feature is disastrous, since it doesn’t forget you even after you provide an incorrect username and password.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/2008/07/googles-remote-sign-out-and-knowing-your-customer/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Jeff Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:11:02 +0000 http://www.10voltmedia.com/blog/?p=26#comment-14 Indeed. So many companies don't "eat their own dog food", as the saying goes. There's a big tendency by developers, and designers to a lesser extent, to think "the user wants X" or "the user will think Y" without putting themselves in the user role to begin with. It's not much different than building a car, but never driving one at any point in the process to understand how the end-user will interact with it. You really do have to eat your own dog food to know if it's any good. Indeed. So many companies don’t “eat their own dog food”, as the saying goes. There’s a big tendency by developers, and designers to a lesser extent, to think “the user wants X” or “the user will think Y” without putting themselves in the user role to begin with. It’s not much different than building a car, but never driving one at any point in the process to understand how the end-user will interact with it.

You really do have to eat your own dog food to know if it’s any good.

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