Facebook is an exemplary company—if you are a fan of “surveillance capitalism,” my term for businesses that create a new kind of marketplace out of our private human experiences. They hoover up all the behavioral data they can glean from our every move (literally, in terms of tracking ...
“Based on discussions with management over the year, we believe Facebook has no intention of getting into the search business,” said Citigroup’s Mark Mahaney, the top-ranked technology analyst according to Institutional Investor magazine. “We also believe it has seen limited impact from the i...
begins. Sometimes that wall is in an app, and sometimes that boundary line is a lot more fuzzy. A future of more-immersive VR and AR, and social spaces that hop in between and onto normal devices, drawing on content that may also be siloed, won't make ...
when you couldn't move for people banging on about Super Walls and status updates. But equally, it might be the case that the novelty is wearing off. Since 2001, I've seen Friends Reunited and Friendster come and go, I've become intensely annoyed with MySpace, and Facebook is only hang...
(2012) `Why Won't You Be My Facebook Friend?': strategies for managing context collapse in the workplace. In: Proceedings of the 7th annual iConfer- ence, Toronto, ON, Canada, 7-10 February, pp. 555-557. New York: ACM.J. Vitak, C. Lampe, R. Gray, and N. B. Ellison, ""...
What Facebook has cooked up is too invasive. It would completely override iOS and push Apple to the background. Apple would effectively be saying that iOS isn’t enough, which goes against everything the company projects to the public. Facebook may have a good relationship with Apple now, ...
content that Facebook took down, but the latest update allows users to appeal to the board what content they think needs to be removed. Experts say it’s a step in the right direction to make content moderation on the platform better, but, overall, won’t address Facebook's real issues...
While gatekeeper may be too strong a term,Amazon, Facebook,Apple, andGooglehave become custodians of access to some of the largest marketplaces today. As much as the fear of vendor lock-in is acknowledged there is also the fear of marketplace lock-out. ...
Back in November, a misleading claim was circulating on Facebook, stating that the Virginia governor had outlawed minors from hunting. This was proven to be false, according to The Associated Press. The social media posts started after Democrats won control of the legislature, which prompted the...
Kherri Jean,Orion's mother,wrote on her Facebook page on July 31 that Orion has already collected over 120,000 books. "Today was one of my favorite days!" she said.We had a 'Race to Kindness' free book fair for children and their parents.It was so grea...