May 2012
Instagram for webpages (22 May., 2012, at Interconnected)
no thanks. economy made on control makes me sick.This is possible because it's a controlled viewing/authoring system. Bingo, we have an economy
April 2012
Inside the life of this 35-year-old self-made billionaire - Yahoo! Finance Canada
YT: I'm 35. I haven't had a personal life.
The Jig Is Up: Time to Get Past Facebook and Invent a New Future - Technology - The Atlantic
That paradigm has run its course. It's not quite over yet, but I think we're into the mobile social fin de siècle.
The 20 Percent Doctrine « Chad Dickerson's blog
When you’re trying to get things done and change a system, expect to upset a few people along the way.
Ukiyo-e Meister Ichimura Mamoru | Flickr : partage de photos !
March 2012
bansky and ads copyrights
You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.
February 2012
Re: Issue 115, exemptions, best practices: Issue 25 and 34 from Karl Dubost on 2012-02-27 (public-tracking@w3.org from February 2012)
Privacy issues will not be solved by DNT. Privacy issues will be solved by changing the business model.
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool - Real Dan Lyons
Bilton made the legitimate point that it’s now become a routine for Valley companies to do something sleazy, get caught, then quickly apologize and get hailed as heroes by the Valley for the quality of their apology. (It’s all about being able to fake the sincerity, as George Burns once said.)
TRY THE NEW VERSION FOR MAC - Ommwriter
PURCHASE OMMWRITER DANA II FOR MAC They tell us that software pricing is a science. We, instead, decided to follow our gut. OmmWriter Dana II has no set price. We let you decide, based on what you got out of OmmWriter. As a result, we propose a minimum price of $ 4.11* (*Monetary gifts ending with a 1 are considered auspicious).
Will Steacy Blog: The Facebook Effect
Corporate taxes paid on profits fell to 12.1% in fiscal 2011. Companies on average paid 25.6% from 1987-2008.
Disruptions: Facebook Users Ask, 'Where's Our Cut?' - NYTimes.com
My Facebook profile, and that of many of my friends is a bit fake because I refuse to be monetized. On Facebook I live in Peru and consequently most of the ads I see are in Spanish. Facebook conveniently does not report this fakery in their filing documents.
January 2012
An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business — MrTeacup.org
In other words, Kickstarter is a web hosting company that charges over 6,000% more than a comparable service.
1/16/12 Lender Fatigue, Small Biz Confidence Up, Mobile Advertising, Freshen Social Media Strategy
December 2011
Don't Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
The owners cash out, the acquirer gets some good engineers, and the users get screwed.
November 2011
Alarm as corporate giants target developing countries - OurWorld 2.0 | OurWorld 2.0
As affluent western markets reach saturation point, global food and drink firms have been opening up new frontiers among people living on $2 a day in low- and middle-income countries. The world’s poor have become their vehicle for growth.
Opening the Vaults « somethingaboutmaps
But I’m also doing this because I’m secretly an idealist (with all the inherent irrationality), and I find the notion of a world in which people pay what they want for art to be attractive.
Bruce Guthrie | Executive Salaries
Over the years I have worked for CEOs here and overseas who were paid millions to do their jobs but, almost without exception, weren't worth it.
This 28-Year-Old Is Making Sure Credit Cards Won't Exist In The Next Few Years
Ultimately we're trying to build the next Visa, not the next PayPal. We're building a human network based on how we think the future of payments will work. The current model needs to be blown up.
slight paranoia: Two honest Google employees: our products don't protect your privacy
Excellent article qui change le focus de la morale vers le type de business. Ce qui permet d'avoir une discussion beaucoup plus rationnelle et permettre de placer les gens en face de choix réel. Et permet à d'autres business de se postionner avec de meilleurs pratiques.Vint Cerf: I think you're quite right, however that, we couldn't run our system if everything in it were encrypted because then we wouldn't know which ads to show you. So this is a system that was designed around a particular business model.






