i suspect european privacy laws will mean that the interesting stuff happens elsewhere, and we’ll see people virtually flocking to the jurisdiction that suits them. why not just offer flickr in german, on the .com domain, and sidestep this nonsense?
Tag: internet
Low End Theory of Networks
Where soccer moms are the demographic the politicians go after, in networks we need to encourage the Grandma Lobby
indeed. see my riffs on the bimodal distribution of content creators: the young and the retired.
Yigg
lame german digg clone
Google Handouts
It stands to reason that Google and corporations like it, who indirectly benefit so enormously from the expensive labor of journalists, should begin to take on greater civic responsibility for journalism’s plight. Is it possible for Google to somehow engage and support the traditional news industry and important local newspapers more fully, for example, to become a vital part of possible solutions to this crisis instead of a part of the problem?
waiting for google handouts is not the future, for sure. if your product did not suck so much it would not suffer as much. get rid of the hacks and watch your fortunes improve
The creation generation
The more tools there are, the more things they’ll make. There is no end to it. They don’t consume. They make. This is the creation generation.
one can hope. maybe with the decline of TV, creativity comes back?
Interweb as Mass Media
who are all these people wasting away 5h of their life every day in front of the TV?
Hosted lifebits
Although this notion of a hosted lifebits service seems inevitable in the long run, it’s not at all clear how we’ll get there. The need is not yet apparent to most people, though it will increasingly become apparent. The technical aspects are somewhat challenging, but the social and business aspects are even more challenging. In social terms, I think it’ll be hard to get people to decouple the idea of storage as a service from the idea of value-added services wrapped around storage.
articulate as always, this time on scenarios for owning your digital identity via reasonably guaranteed hosting of your lifebits (under your control)
Desktop is dated
Most companies who sell operating systems are more interested in protecting their cash cows than moving to a model that enables new types of collaboration and communication.
fully agreed. i have no use for the frippery on mac os.
What Would Google Do?
while old-style data-rich companies use the data to send you junk mail, new-style ones use it to provide superior service. this is why we hate our banks and phone companies: what have they done for us lately?
AppleGate
Ryan Block has formally responded to what is now being referred to as “AppleGate” in Silicon Valley. Yesterday Engadget posted that the iPhone was going to be delayed several months, relying on what turned out to be a bogus email for the story. $4B in market cap was wiped off of Apple’s stock price in 6 minutes as the “news” hit the market. Engadget quickly corrected the story and the stock recovered within 20 minutes, but many investors had lost a staggering amount of money in the amount of time it takes to brush your teeth.
the PR profession is dead. things are now moving too quickly for lazy 9-5ers to be useful.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 