common_ | 7 years ago | on: Glassdoor has been acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2B
GTA V made $7B. Minecraft was worth it.
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common_ | 8 years ago | on: Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary
She also designed the icons used on Facebook for their now-defunct Gifts.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
Pop Quiz: Which two companies had their first office at 101 University Avenue in Palo Alto?
The answer says quite a lot, I think.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Is Either Ignorant or Deliberately Misleading Congress
He started X.com. The founders of PayPal were forced by their VCs to merge the two companies, because X.com had a massive cash position, and a banking license.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works
This isn't just basic cookie tracking. They have an actual profile on you, without your consent, with the people who have you in their address book and even potentially your purchasing habits, from the data they purchase from data brokers like Datalogix. They maintain this profile on you separately from other users, and they make immediate use of it if you create an account.
That's why it's called a shadow profile.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Refuses to Admit How Facebook Works
Here's how Zuckerberg's testimony works:
1. When he says he doesn't know, he actually knows.
2. When he says he knows, and that the answer is "more AI," he doesn't actually know.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: The high modernism of social media companies
Facebook and Zuckerberg will tell you that they disagree with Boz's comments.
He wasn't fired.
He wasn't demoted.
He was promoted.
His responsibilities were expanded.
If that's not a silent endorsement, a message to the rank and file about where the company's values stand, I don't know what is.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Hello: A new social network founded by Orkut's creator
Not sure why this has been posted here. The app is nearly abandoned and dead at this point.
I know we all want alternatives to the status quo, but you're not going to find it among a bunch of copycat services that haven't solved any of the fundamental problems causing us so much trouble today.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Dapps
So much of VC funding is just about being in the right place at the right time. A lot of these guys seem like geniuses because of winning bets, but that's because nobody talks about their flops.
It's entertaining watching all of the VCs who have made a major bet on crypto, who are now doubling down on what looks more like an overheated casino losing steam. Fred Wilson might end up watching the tide go out on this one. Maybe people will finally remember that he was part of Twitter's clueless board, the one that didn't think it was important to buy Instagram?
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Based on his testimony today, Mark Zuckerberg puts users last during a crisis
Experian et al do not have a two-way channel they can use to run psychological experiments based on your usage data and communications with others. Facebook can, and does.
These hearings are just the tip of the iceberg. You're like the guy saying Bitcoin has hit its peak at $100.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg Can Still Fix This Mess
> Facebook does contribute to efforts to improve our digital lives, including one on youth education at the center I co-founded.
Why isn't this disclosed at the top of the article?
common_ | 8 years ago | on: China's global kidnapping campaign may now be reaching inside U.S. borders
Actually, irrelevant. There would be more articles that are critical of China if newspaper publishers weren't paranoid about losing a shot at a payday buyout from a Chinese media firm.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
All communities have leaders, whales, whatever you want to call them. Even Bitcoin is now controlled by a small group of mostly Chinese people. Decentralization does nothing other than put control in the hands of an unpredictable and potentially unaccountable group of people, whereas centralized systems have people you can point to and hold accountable (or so we hope). There is a reason it's never worked throughout history, and why decentralized systems always collapse into a more efficient centralized form.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2018 review: The only laptop in a professional’s paradise
Any experience on how well these things run Linux?
common_ | 8 years ago | on: How Facebook Helps Shady Advertisers Pollute the Internet
This actually seems more damaging and disgusting than all of the Cambridge Analytica news. Facebook employees actively working to help scammers get billions of dollars out of uneducated poor users. Despicable.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Facebook Goes on a Hiring Spree for Washington Lobbyists
Albee started lobbying for the company on Oct. 30 -- two days before his former boss, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled Colin Stretch, the company’s general counsel, in a hearing.
Yeah, that's not suspicious.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Facebook will hold emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about CA
> The meeting, which is scheduled for 10AM PT, will be led by Paul Grewal, the company’s deputy general counsel.
What? Paul Grewal was a judge who presided over Facebook court cases. How is that legal?
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Deliveroo raises $385M in new funding
Alternative headline: for $385M, investors buy option for a large stake in Deliveroo if they don't surpass a valuation 'over $2B.'
common_ | 8 years ago | on: Mark Zuckerberg's Political Awakening
Seems like the real Mark Zuckerberg comes out at the end of that article.
common_ | 8 years ago | on: When the Rich Said No to Getting Richer
I'm not American, and I'm not middle class. Thanks.
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