Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to try to hijack what remains…
It’s a depressing story of one company — one person even — subverting an open, powerful resource for massively disproportionate commercial gain.
> Facebook is what the web has become. Its closed nature (no linking) is forcing Google to try to hijack what remains…
It’s a depressing story of one company — one person even — subverting an open, powerful resource for massively disproportionate commercial gain.
Replacing Facebook.
The principal barrier to many people leaving Facebook is a manifestation of the network effect. It may be the only place they can easily keep up with a lot of friends.
If something were to replace it, you would need to have a free level to allow the network effect to get going, but would it be possible to fund it without getting into the wholesale data harvesting and selling Facebook is doing?
Would a freemium model work? A less abusive advertising model? Charging businesses to be there, but not people?
I’d like to be able to say I enjoyed Zuckerberg’s cover of “Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word”, but…
The First Shoreham Flock
Tom Foolery Coffee Company.
First gathering of Shoreham-by-Sea digital and entrepreneurial people. A few dozen people here!
A Brief History Of Mark Zuckerberg Apologizing (Or Not Apologizing) - the best bit is that literally the first site he built had to be shut down in hours for violating people’s privacy - 15 years ago.
This is why I’m in London on a Sunday Evening. Running a course tomorrow, and that looks like enough for Southern to start getting twitchy about running trains…
Sometimes, I forget how lucky I am to live somewhere where I can take photos like this from my home office window.
The @TryGhost team are looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer: blog.ghost.org
Another, more positive, HomePod thought: since its arrival my daughters now see any speaker without Siri in it as inherently broken.