Competition Is for Losers – Peter Thiel – WSJ
« Monopoly is therefore not a pathology or an exception. Monopoly is the condition of every successful business ».
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Why Eric Schmidt doesn’t know how Google works | VentureBeat | Entrepreneur | by Tom Cheredar
« When you add up all the revenue from Google Apps (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Maps, etc.) together with the Android and other mobile businesses, and then add Chromebooks, Chromecast, Chromeboxes, and everything hardware and everything Chrome, Google Developers Network, Google , Google cars, Google robots and drones, Google Glass and other wearables, Google Cloud, and everything else in the Google world, you get $5 billion or 10 percent of Google’s revenue. Peanuts! Google does not disclose the split of cost among different business units, but it’s not hard to imagine their level of profitability if they were independent entities ».
Les métriques du web | Louise Merzeau
« L’absence de clôture tangible dans l’environnement numérique produit un effet de nivellement qui dissimule les opérations de tri et de classement des informations. La hiérarchisation des contenus constitue pourtant un enjeu stratégique majeur, à la fois nerf de la concurrence que se livrent les plateformes et vecteur d’autant de philosophies qu’il y a de prétendants au contrôle du Web ».
Fight Over Yahoo’s Use of Flickr Photos – WSJ
« A spokesman for Creative Commons, a nonprofit group formed in 2001, confirmed Yahoo is in accord with its licenses. Legally, “it doesn’t appear that Flickr is doing anything wrong,” said Corynne McSherry, intellectual-property director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation ».
Sometimes young boys on Facebook send me rape threats, so I’ve started telling their mothers.
via The gaming journalist who tells on her internet trolls – to their mothers | Culture | theguardian.com Alanah Pearce (@Charalanahzard)
« The real problem is that the average American has bought into this false choice: government vs. competition ».
How Facebook Could End Up Controlling Everything You Watch and Read Online | WIRED
« Instead of going to all this trouble to get people to click a link on Facebook that takes them somewhere else, the future of Internet content may be a world in which no video, article, or cat GIF gallery lives outside of Facebook at all ».
« By publishing a clip that could appear to be authentic we hoped to take advantage of a tool that’s often used in war; make a video that claims to be real. We wanted to see if the film would get attention and spur debate, first and foremost about children and war. We also wanted to see how the media would respond to such a video ». (via BBC News – #BBCTrending: Syrian ‘hero boy’ video faked by Norwegian director)
« Maps have always been essential. And contested. Today, they shape decisions both serious and trivial, from mapping gene activity, crime risks and rising housing prices, to directing a pedestrian towards the most exotic cup of coffee or the most pleasant route to work ».