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Facebook Is A Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight – Business Insider

In 2008, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his theory about people sharing content on Facebook.

« I would expect that next year, people will share twice as much information as they share this year, and [the] next year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the year before, » he said.

The New York Times called it « Zuckerberg’s Law, » a playful homage to Moore’s Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who said, « The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months. »

In 2011, Zuckerberg reiterated his theory on sharing, saying that it was still growing at an exponential rate.

And Zuckerberg is right about that.

But the exponential growth of sharing may not, actually, be helping Facebook. And with the explosion of dedicated mobile sharing apps, the industry may be evolving in ways that Zuckerberg never foresaw.

via Facebook Is A Fundamentally Broken Product That Is Collapsing Under Its Own Weight – Business Insider.

« we need to talk about ted »

This is my rant against TED, placebo politics, « innovation, » middlebrow megachurch infotainment, etc., given at TEDx San Diego at their invitation (thank you to Jack Abbott and Felena Hanson). It’s very difficult to do anything interesting within the format, and even this seems like far too much of a ‘TED talk’, especially to me.

viaBRATTON.INFO – talks – « we need to talk about ted ».

Why Google isn’t our Bell Labs

that Bell Labs operated in no small part for the public good, producing IP like UNIX and C that entered the public domain. In fact, despite being a part of a state sanctioned monopoly, Bell Labs produced a staggering amount of freely-available knowledge that moved entire industries forward.

Google, as a publicly traded company, has an obligation to maximize profit for shareholders — and there’s nothing wrong with that! But to assume that Google would freely release its IP in the same way that Bell Labs did just seems willfully ignorant of the fundamental differences between a publicly traded company and a state-sanctioned monopoly.

Why Google isn’t our Bell Labs.

NSA : un juge américain estime la collecte de données contraire à la Constitution

Il s’agit de la première décision de justice depuis la révélation du programme d’écoute grâce aux documents transmis par Edward Snowden

NSA : un juge américain estime la collecte de données contraire à la Constitution.