“We’ve moved in the gaming space from the age of artists to the age of mathematicians.”
Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy
I think this sums up the defining economic growth story of our generation. Business models are being built around the loss of privacy, the exchange of privacy for convenience and free services. Note that this is only a concern when there is an understanding by the user that their actions are private by default: Google searches, Facebook posts to friends only, and everything in Gmail and Google Docs. This isn’t a concern when the user assumes publicness: Tumblr posts, Tweets, etc. Monetization can’t come from an exploitation of privacy when there is no privacy.
“My problem with ‘frictionless sharing’ is much more basic: Facebook is killing taste.
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For as much as he’s invested in sharing, though, Zuckerberg seems clueless about the motivation behind the act. Why do you share a story, video, or photo? Because you want your friends to see it. And why do you want your friends to see it? Because you think they’ll get a kick out of it. I know this sounds obvious, but it’s somehow eluded Zuckerberg that sharing is fundamentally about choosing. You experience a huge number of things every day, but you choose to tell your friends about only a fraction of them, because most of what you do isn’t worth mentioning.
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“There are billions of photographs on Facebook’s servers. As your Facebook friends upload their albums, Facebook will try to determine if any of the pictures look like you. And if they find what they believe to be a match, they may well urge one of your Facebook friends to tag it with your name.
The tagging is still done by your friends, not by Facebook, but rather creepily Facebook is now pushing your friends to go ahead and tag you.
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“Where Google’s services represented things I care about — discovery, curiosity, and transparency — Facebook represents that I don’t care about — narrowing, nattering, tribalism, etc. More than not caring, these are mostly things for which I have active contempt, as they represent the antithesis of curiosity and openness, things that Google (mostly) facilitates, and that Facebook (mostly) doesn’t.”
5 reasons the new Facebook movie poster is brilliant:
2. The photo of actor Jesse Eisenberg, who plays Zuckerberg, is perfect. Sony is pretty much selling this as a horror movie, with Zuckerberg as Freddy Krueger.
