Can you build a better successor for Facebook? This competition wants you (more)

Paul Ford: Facebook Is Why We Need a Digital Protection Agency. Facebook has reached a scale where it’s not a model of society as much as an engine of culture. (more)

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X, an American semi-secret research-and-development facility founded by Google in January 2010 as Google X,[1][2] operates as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.[3] X has its headquarters about a mile and a half from Google's corporate headquarters, the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California.[4][5] Work at X is overseen by entrepreneur scientist Astro Teller, as CEO and "Captain of Moonshots".[6][7][8] The lab started with the development of Google's self-driving car.[8] On October 2, 2015, after the complete restructuring of Google into Alphabet, Google X became an independent Alphabet company and was renamed to X. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)

CEO of EverNote since 2015. (more)

EverNote CEO Phil Libin may soon leave his position, The Information reported on Monday. According to the report, Evernote has been looking for a "professional CEO" for a while and it "may be close to something." (more)

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is a private American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars.[8] SpaceX has since developed the Falcon launch vehicle family and the Dragon spacecraft family, which both currently deliver payloads into Earth orbit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX (Space Program)

humanity's accumulated Knowledge is not only growing, but that growth is accelerating (Accelerating Change) (more)

Tactic of only showing a given ad (WebAd, Advertising) to people likely to "respond". cf Personalization, Direct Marketing

Advertising that runs on a WebSite. (more)

Cambridge Analytica (CA) is a privately held company that combines data mining and data analysis with strategic communication for the electoral process. It was created in 2013 as an offshoot of its British parent company SCL Group to participate in American politics.[2] In 2014, CA was involved in 44 U.S. political races.[3] The company is partly owned by the family of Robert Mercer, an American hedge-fund manager who supports many politically conservative causes.[2][4] The firm maintains offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and London.[5] In 2015 it became known as the data analysis company working initially for Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.[4] In 2016, after Cruz's campaign had faltered, CA worked for Donald Trump's presidential campaign,[6] and on the Leave.EU-campaign for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union. CA's role and impact on those campaigns has been disputed and is the subject of ongoing criminal investigations in both countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

Nassim Taleb book: Skin In The Game ISBN:0241300657 (more)

Street Traffic alternative (more)

Steve Yegge: Who will steal Android from Google? (more)

An idea for the LazyWeb: Web Browser-s should support an implicit page 'a name' feature. In other words, when the browser is getting http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiForCollaborationWare#summarizing, it first looks for an explicit 'a name="summarizing"' tag, but once it fails to find that it basically just does a 'Find' for the first occurrence of the string 'summarizing'. A small complication: use '%20' for string of words? (more)

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression... When Democrats after 1945 proclaimed the Tennessee Valley Authority as a model for countries in the developing world to follow (Economic Development), conservative critics charged it was a top-heavy, centralized, technocratic venture that displaced locals and did so in insensitive ways. Thus, when the program was used as the basis for modernization programs in various parts of the third world during the Cold War, such as in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, its failure brought a backlash of cynicism toward modernization programs that has persisted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority

Enrico Moretti's new book is The New Geography Of Jobs ISBN:0547750110 (more)

Programming Language (FrameWork) ideal for newbies for Learning Programming. (more)

Semiotext(e) is an independent publisher of critical theory, fiction, philosophy, art criticism, activist texts and non-fiction... Founded in 1974... In 1980, Lotringer began to assemble the Foreign Agents series, a group of "little black books", often culled from longer texts... In 1990, Chris Kraus proposed a new series of fiction books by American writers that would become Native Agents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiotext(e) (more)

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