Booting Up: Is Google Building a Tower of Babble?

A report suggests Google is going to unite all its various chat products under the name “Babble.” We sincerely hope

Pretty sure she's waving to the Street View team.
Pretty sure she’s waving to the Street View team.

A report suggests Google (GOOGL) is going to unite all its various chat products under the name “Babble.” We sincerely hope this is not part of another effort to make us all use Google+. [Geek.com]

“Sanders and Armstrong share something with the startup world as a whole: the arrogance of naivete. They see what they think is a problem. They think they’re the ones to solve it.” [Melville House]

Wait ’til the mayor sees this: There’s a couple of teens who review cigarettes on YouTube. Gross. [Daily Dot]

You can now climb every mountain with Google Street View. [L.A. Times]

Security researcher Brian Krebs tracked down the hacker who completely wrecked Mat Honan’s digital life. BRB, double-checking my two-factor authentication. [Ars Technica]

Booting Up: Is Google Building a Tower of Babble?