The land belongs to Google, Facebook, Amazon… They own the data centres. You can build all you want, but you never know who owns what and for how long… and your corner looks like this
Source : The Internet is a digital shanty town — News from Belua — Medium
Today I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined Google.When meeting with current and former Googlers, I continually find myself drawn to their intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm — as well as a universal desire to share it with others. I’m also impressed by Google’s commitment to enabling these same talented people to tackle some of the world’s most interesting and important problems.I can’t wait to contribute my own experience from a dozen years of building online communities, and to begin the next chapter of my career at such an incredible company.
Facebook has been trying to develop a whole ecosystem of apps that work with Messenger, and Spotify is one of the bigger names to come on board. We may see a lot more come Facebook’s developer conference in April.
Source : Facebook Messenger and Spotify now let you quickly share songs and playlists | The Verge
Project Shield is a free service that uses Google technology to protect news sites and free expression from DDoS attacks on the web.
Source : Project Shield | Jigsaw
For Google, this is a competitive necessity. Facebook has improved the speed of stories in its walled garden with Instant Articles. Apple News provides a streamlined experience on iPhones for those who use it. Google’s turf is the web, and the company doesn’t want to lose out to more user-friendly spots outside its reach on your phone. Speed matters on mobile. Google wants to make sure you know it serves up stories just as fast as everywhere else.
Google vs Facebook vs Apple against the Open Web.
Source : Google Will Now Favor Pages That Use Its Fast-Loading Tech | WIRED
Now, Facebook says it has mapped almost 2 billion people better than any previous project. The company’s Connectivity Labs announced this week that it created new, high-resolution population-distribution maps of 20 countries, most of which are developing. It won’t release most of the maps until later this year, but if they’re accurate, they will be the best-quality population maps ever made for most of those places.
Source : Facebook Is Making a Map of Everyone in the World – The Atlantic
We want to finish connecting everyone, we’re going to do it in partnership with governments and different companies all over the world.
Source : CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicts 5 billion Facebook users by 2030
Facebook and Google have their ecosystems and now we have one too, in a part of the world that is growing incredibly fast and where we will become very strong. We want to be an ecosystem with a billion users.
Source : Browser maker Opera in line for $1.2bn acquisition by Chinese consortium | Technology | The Guardian
Les recherches, quel que soit le groupe, donnaient toujours les mêmes trente références qui pointaient vers des pages Web réelles de cette élection passée, seul l’ordre d’apparition de ces trente références variait.Les résultats ont été sans appel : la préférence des groupes allait dans le sens du rang du classement qui favorisait le candidat A ou le candidat B. Sympathie, confiance et intention de vote allaient dans le même sens.
Source : De l’influence de Google sur les résultats électoraux
Wikidata devient ainsi central dans la gestion de l’information bibliographique pour les bibliothèques… mais aussi pour les entreprises, et au premier rang d’entre elles, Google. Avec le risque notamment que les moteurs de recherche utilisent directement ces données sans renvoyer vers Wikipédia, faisant diminuer l’audience du site participatif et, in fine, la bonne volonté de ses utilisateurs.
Source : Après 15 ans d’épopée intellectuelle, quel futur pour l’encyclopédie libre ?
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