Tag: Google
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Google lost. Books burned. What is left?
Google drive went down. [1] Imagine the entire Internet was lost. Imagine all books were burned. Imagine civilization was destroyed. Imagine all people were lost but you alone. Imagine you wandering on the Earth alone. Just you. Imagine nothing existed but you. Now try to understand what is important. Can you see clearer now?
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Facebook, Google, the death of Internet, true knowledge...
In February, Facebook purchased the WhatsApp messaging service for the mind-boggling sum of $19 billion. It was the largest acquisition of a venture-backed company ever, but it also proved a clear, albeit subtle, point: Our relationship to personal data is shifting. WhatsApp charges users $0.99 a year, a fee it justifies in a straightforward way—no…
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Resurrection of Google Knol: Towards Knol 2.0 and why the good die young...
Knol is not dead. A weird statement to make, especially after Google shut it down some time ago. Let me explain things a little. Knol was a new initiative designed to promote knowledge. Google launched it and promoted it fiercely in the first months, attracting many authors. But what was so special about it? Weren't…
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Instagram, "freedom", freedom, illusions...
Facebook's photo-sharing site Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users' photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January, they cannot opt out. The move riled social media users, with one likening it to a "suicide note". Most users have fiercely reacted to…
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Google, ITU, UN and the popular myth of "Free Internet"...
Google has asked web users to add their name to an online petition to support its view regarding the upcoming ITU conference on the future of Internet. "The [UN agency] International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is bringing together regulators from around the world to renegotiate a decades-old communications treaty," it wrote on its Take Action site."Some…
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