Google vs. Twitter?
Does Google fear Twitter? Does Google think about an acquisition? More rumours on the road: http://tr.im/gRWt
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The iPhone Generation: Paying for Content
The NYT asks: Why are iPhone users willing to pay for content? Even for eBooks? – http://tr.im/gRUX
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Social Media Overlay
http://Skittles.com follows the http://Modernista.com social media overlay concept: future or past? – http://tr.im/gRU5
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Twitter for Everyone?
In 1995 Winer envisioned billions of sites, one for every person, now he asks: A billion Twitters? – http://tr.im/gRTB
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WhoBuild.It
http://WhoBuilt.It lets designers and developers claim websites they’ve worked on; http://tr.im/gRTj
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The Facebook TOS: Open Developement?
The Facebook TOS: now opened up for user input. Zuckerberg: “We do not own user data“; http://tr.im/gPEp
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Traditional Media: Declining Even After Recession
Most traditional media, its local ad spending, will keep declining even after the recession lifts; http://tr.im/gPDs
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Google Integrates Friend Connect With Blogger
Google has integrated Friend Connect with its weblog publishing service Blogger; http://tr.im/gObH
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Google at Twitter
Google started an official Twitter account: @Google has found >5.ooo followers within 7 hours; http://tr.im/gNhG
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Google News Advertising
Google adds advertising to Google News search results: exciting possibilities not only for political PR; http://tr.im/gNha
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Rubel: “Google News is now a PR playground. Given the relative ease of launching a simple Google Adwords campaign we’re going to see a lot of companies – some legit, others not – buying up real estate on Google News solely for influence, not clicks. Google may bounce these ads if they don’t perform – time will tell.”
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Mashable: “Long-time Google watcher John Battelle thinks that this move will ‘kick up some dust’ since Google doesn’t mention anything about sharing revenue with the content providers who seed the aggregator. I’m not so sure about that though. Just like Digg, Google News simply aggregates headline and snippets, with links that drive traffic to publishers. On the other hand, if they were to insert ads into Google Reader, where the full text of stories is available, then there might be a big uproar from the publishing community.”
Battelle: “I cannot believe that this issue was not proactively dealt with. It must have been. Right? Readers in the news industry, speak up – any insight?”
SEL: “Clearly, Google needs to be more careful with the ads displayed on Google News and Finance, then what they show in the standard search results.”
Zuckerberg: “We do not own user data, they own their data. We never intended to give that impression and we feel bad that we did.”
Mashable: “Between the publishing of new rights and responsibilities and a commitment to keep users informed of changes to its Terms of Service, it’s clear Facebook has listened to users, and is going above and beyond to try and convince them that a similar situation won’t happen again. Now the ball is in their court to deliver on these promises.”"
RWW: “Facebook said today that policy changes in the future will be voted on if they stir up enough comments to warrant it. There is no clear public standard for what will be voted on, no details about how the voting will work, etc. Perhaps more important, voting about changes to Facebook may not always be a good idea. … One of the questions asked during the press phone call today concerned privacy laws. How would Facebook deal with different privacy laws in different locations? The company said they would follow whatever laws were in place where a user lived. On the face of it that might not sound so bad, but in practice a promise to always follow the law is in direct contradiction with the company’s goals of changing the world. … Mark Zuckerberg is a young man at the helm of a huge company, touching hundreds of millions of lives all over the world, at a time of dramatic social upheaval caused in large part by the kind of technology he is helping create. That’s no small job. We hope he can pull it off.”
ST: “After a huge revolt from its users over a naked user content grab, Facebook is now instituting a supposed ‘open, transparent, and democratic’ set of Terms of Service. – Nothing could be more fake, more closed, more manipulative – and ultimately more authoritarian – than what they are calling ‘democracy’. It’s a loopy geek’s idea of democracy incorporating various utopian ideals they have absorbed here and there from the extremist left (and right!) ideologues they seem most exposed to on the Internet – and hopefully it will sink of its own weight and/or be overthrown.”