Digirati
Tageszeitung fürs Informationszeitalter: Digirati. Elektronisch, europäisch; http://j.mp/digirati (via @heinz)
Updates from December, 2009 Toggle Comment Threads | Keyboard Shortcuts
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Gerrit Eicker
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Gerrit Eicker
Computer World: Consumers vs. Enterprises
Anderson: The computer world is splitting apart, into 2 separate continents, consumer and enterprise; http://j.mp/5DV0xP
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Gerrit Eicker
Google Wave Invitations
Google seems to give away Wave invites freely: On Twitter the value of invitations tends to zero; http://j.mp/5220wB
Gerrit Eicker
Personal Branding
Parkin: Personal branding is about propagating a reputation for doing something well; http://j.mp/90D9Nx
Gerrit Eicker
Lokale Soziale Netzwerke
Totgesagte leben länger: Die VZ-Netzwerke wachsen ebenso wie andere lokale Soziale Netzwerke; http://j.mp/8frLfk
Gerrit Eicker
Facebook Privacy II.
Again! A Facebook privacy update forces users to readjust settings unless everyone shall have access; http://j.mp/617tEl
Gerrit Eicker
The New Google
http://j.mp/Google-reinvented itself for the mobile market and becomes very personal; http://j.mp/Google-personalized
Gerrit Eicker
Google Search Reinvented
Google goes mobile: Goggles offers image keywording, localisation becomes key, search goes real-time; http://j.mp/6Mu61H
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Gerrit Eicker
Google: “Mobile devices straddle the intersection of three significant industry trends: computing (or Moore’s Law), connectivity, and the cloud. Simply put: Phones get more powerful and less expensive all the time. They’re connected to the Internet more often, from more places. They tap into computational power that’s available in datacenters around the world. – These ‘Cs’ aren’t new: we’ve discussed them in isolation for over 40 years. But today’s smartphones – for the first time – combine all three into a personal, handheld experience. We’ve only begun to appreciate the impact of these converged devices, but we’re pretty sure about one thing: we’ve moved past the PC-only era, into a world where search is forever changed.”
TC: “This morning, Google launched its real-time search offering, which will work on both Android devices and iPhones immediately. Google says there are over a billion realtime documents a day that it will be looking at. This includes tweets, blog posts, and also information from sources like MySpace and Facebook. – Honestly, the push towards location-based search is not surprising at all, but it should be interesting to see if the new technology encroaches upon a space where companies like Yelp make their living. As we wrote earlier today, Goggles takes a huge leap forward in the field of visual search. Of course, rounding out Google’s offerings with real-time technology makes its mobile product significantly more powerful.”
Google: “We’re introducing new features that bring your search results to life with a dynamic stream of real-time content from across the web. Now, immediately after conducting a search, you can see live updates from people on popular sites like Twitter and FriendFeed, as well as headlines from news and blog posts published just seconds before. When they are relevant, we’ll rank these latest results to show the freshest information right on the search results page. … Our real-time search enables you to discover breaking news the moment it’s happening, even if it’s not the popular news of the day, and even if you didn’t know about it beforehand. … Our real-time search features are based on more than a dozen new search technologies that enable us to monitor more than a billion documents and process hundreds of millions of real-time changes each day. … As we’ve written before, search is still an unsolved problem and we’re committed to making it faster and easier for people to access a greater diversity of information, delivered in real-time, from across the web. I’m tremendously excited about these significant new real-time search features.”
VB: “Basically, when users search for something, the most recent news articles and posts on sites like Twitter will be immediately into your results, and those results will be updated immediately as new articles and tweets appear.”
SEL: “I like this feature, because to me, ‘real time search’ means bringing back microblogged content, not news results, not freshly updated web pages and so on. … Currently, Google says there’s no plans for a dedicated standalone real time search page as you get for say Google News or Google Images. However, I can point you to a pseudo-page like this. Go here, and you’ll get a nice clean Google home page that is configured to search for real time information. … Google could have survived without a real time search component – in particular without the dedicated flow of microblogged updates – but it becomes a more complete and useful service with them. I’m glad to see the integration and am looking forward to see how it matures. – Still, in the long term for those trying to measure the search face-off between Google and Bing, it’s not real time search that’s the major battlefield. Instead, it’s personalized search that I think is far more important.”
NYT: “Real-time search will be rolled out to users over the next few days. It will also be available on Android and the iPhone. – Google Trends will also add “hot topics” from the real-time Web, Mr. Singhal said, plucking information about what people are talking about from Twitter, among other sites. – Finally, Google is striking real-time deals with both Facebook and MySpace. Updates from public pages on Facebook will appear in Google real-time search, as will any publicly posted comments on MySpace.”
RWW: “Google launched its version of integrated real-time search, one of a number of impressive product demos given, at a press event this morning. It’s much better than what Bing and Yahoo! have done, but it’s still just the beginning of a full-scale engagement with the real-time web. … I certainly wasn’t watching for the change. A robot was doing that for me and let me know about the change in near real time. It was pretty awesome, but it wasn’t real time and the services I patched together to do it are all marginal enough that they often don’t work or are very late. Put real time at the center of the web and we’ll be able to automate all kinds of information monitoring. At first it will be a competitive advantage for those who use it strategically; then it will just change the game, become standard practice and require competitive knowledge workers to come up with something else that’s new.”
RWW: “At Google’s event today, the company announced not just a number of fantastic new features, including real-time search, but a new partnership as well: real-time search of public Facebook status updates. … Want your Facebook updates to stay out of Google? If that’s a concern, you needn’t worry. Only people who have changed their privacy settings to Public will have their content show up in Google. Facebook would like you to change that setting, but you don’t need to worry about your private content being sold to Google without your opting-in by changing your settings. … There is so much implicit real-time data online that few real-time search startups use only explicit data, like shared links, from social networks. … Google could try to revise its contract with users to allow indexing of click-streams, though, and TechCrunch reported last night that the company is trying to acquire Aardvark as we speak.“
Gerrit Eicker
Journalists as Enablers
Jarvis: We can think of journalists as enablers, community organizers, teachers, curators, filters; http://j.mp/92rqBd
Gerrit Eicker
JooJoo
The CrunchPad is resurrected as the JooJoo, finalising the most nasty story of modern tech history; http://j.mp/52hNHC
RWW: “Facebook announced this morning that its 350 million users will be prompted to make their status messages and shared content publicly visible to the world at large and search engines. It’s a move we expected but the language used in the announcement is near Orwellian. The company says the move is all about helping users protect their privacy and connect with other people, but the new default option is to change from ‘old settings’ to becoming visible to ‘everyone.’ – This is not what Facebook users signed up for. It’s not about privacy at all, it’s about increasing traffic and the visibility of activity on the site. … Facebook confirmed to us in a press call earlier this year that the company does in fact want users to post more publicly and we expected a site-wide call for users to loosen privacy restrictions – but not like this. This announcement was couched in language of user control and privacy. – A much more honest approach to privacy would be to encourage users to create lists of contacts and encourage them to select which list any update was visible to. Instead, that’s greatly underemphasized.”
NYT: “One big question today is whether Facebook is implicitly guiding people toward relaxing their privacy settings. Barry Schnitt, a Facebook spokesman, said the company’s default recommendations on items like the posts they create, their religious affiliation and birthday are simply based on their previous privacy options. – But in a blog post on the site of the ACLU of Northern California, Nicole Ozer, its civil liberties director, wrote that most users will see recommended settings that make information less, not more, protected.”
Reuters: “Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said users could simply opt to leave the city and gender fields blank if they did not want the information seen by their non-friends on Facebook. … ‘Any suggestion that we’re trying to trick them into something would work against any goal that we have,’ said Schnitt. – He said that Facebook was recommending that posts be viewable to everyone because such sharing of information is consistent with ‘the way the world is moving.’”
TC: “The Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins … Facebook is giving up its reputation as a ‘private’ social network – where the default is to restrict access to everything that is shared – in favor of something that can challenge Twitter head on. … Facebook is forcing users to choose their new privacy options to promote the Everyone update, and to clear itself of any potential wrongdoing going forward. If there is significant backlash against the social network, it can claim that users willingly made the choice to share their information with everyone.”
Guardian: “Facebook has outraged civil liberties campaigners after introducing new privacy settings that could dramatically increase the amount of personal information people expose online. – Privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union railed against the changes to the world’s largest social network yesterday, calling the developments ‘flawed’ and ‘worrisome’.”