“We don't want to change (use new
technology) to make money. Let us force consumers to do it our way
or else!”
"The hilariously named
'Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property' has
finally released its report, an 84-page tome that's pretty bonkers.
But there's a bit that stands out as particularly crazy: a
proposal to legalize
the use of malware in order to punish people believed to be copying
illegally. The report proposes that software
would be loaded on computers that would somehow figure out if you
were a pirate, and if you were, it would lock your computer up and
take all your files hostage until you call the police and confess
your crime. This is the mechanism that crooks use when they deploy
ransomware."
A brief summary and an Infographic
Teens are sharing more information
about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we
last surveyed in 2006:
- 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006.
- 71% post their school name, up from 49%.
- 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%.
- 53% post their email address, up from 29%.
- 20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.
60% of teen Facebook users set their
Facebook profiles to private (friends only), and most report high
levels of confidence in their ability to manage their settings.
- 56% of teen Facebook users say it’s “not difficult at all” to manage the privacy controls on their Facebook profile.
- 33% Facebook-using teens say it’s “not too difficult.”
- 8% of teen Facebook users say that managing their privacy controls is “somewhat difficult,” while less than 1% describe the process as “very difficult.”
Modern bid-ness:
"It's reported that Yahoo has
formally put in a
bid to buy Hulu only a week after adding
Tumblr to the family. From the article: 'Yahoo just spent $1.1
billion of its cash horde to acquire Tumblr, a blogging site with 300
million mostly young-ish visitors and 24
billion minutes of usage per month. Yahoo CEO
Marissa Mayer's team can slap a lot of tasteful, personalized
native ads into the Tumblr content streams to
monetize the fast growing site. It's the same way that Facebook and
Twitter hope to get into the tens of billions in revenue league, but
it's a long and winding road. Now Yahoo is taking a run at Hulu,
with its 4 million subscribers paying $7.99 per month, original
programming , and more than 70,000 full TV episodes. Hulu could
immediately put Yahoo's video efforts and revenue in a different
league.'"
(Related) New buzzword!
"Weighing in on Yahoo's
recent acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 billion, social networking
entrepreneur Adam Rifkin argues that Tumblr is
extremely valuable business property because
it has successfully organized
itself around the 'Interest
Graph' (people
interested in the same hobbies or things), rather
than the 'Social Graph' (family, friends, and
coworkers/colleagues, as is typical for Facebook). He opines that,
for a social networking site, readers
are far more important than writers; writers, after all, 'have
time but no money. Certain groups are going to be overrepresented:
Students, stay-at-home moms, the underemployed, retirees.' While
readers are just the opposite: they 'have money but no time.... They
want to see a picture of a watch they like, and buy it now.' In
other words, it's the readers of the content that businesses are
trying to reach. And interest graphs can be
specifically targeted by businesses, much more so than social
graphs."
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