Bookmarks vom 15.01.12 bis 25.01.12

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  • Google’s Broken Promise: The End of "Don’t Be Evil" – So why are we calling this evil? Because Google changed the rules that it defined itself. Google built its reputation, and its multi-billion dollar business, on the promise of its "don't be evil" philosophy. That's been largely interpreted as meaning that Google will always put its users first, an interpretation that Google has cultivated and encouraged. Google has built a very lucrative company on the reputation of user respect. It has made billions of dollars in that effort to get us all under its feel-good tent. And now it's pulling the stakes out, collapsing it. It gives you a few weeks to pull your data out, using its data-liberation service, but if you want to use Google services, you have to agree to these rules.
  • Google tracks consumers’ online activities across products, and users can’t opt out – The Washington Post – Nicht überraschend, dass Google das machen will, nur das man es nicht abstellen kann, ist keine gute Idee. Google demontiert sich weiter und macht fröhlich alle Fehler, die Microsoft in den 90ern gemacht hat.
  • F.A.Z.-Community – Nüchtern betrachtet hat Kim Dotcom erfolgreich gezeigt, wie man mit Inhalten im Netz aus Nutzern dauerhafte Kunden macht: Indem man ihnen kundenfreundlich die Plattform liefert, die sie wollen, zu einem Preis, den sie zu zahlen bereit sind, und das alles, ohne sie dabei zu kriminalisieren.
  • 8 Actors Who Have Never Been Nominated For An Oscar – Erstaunliche Liste
  • Predictions Of What 2011 Would Be Like From A 1911 Newspaper