Google and Verizon in Talks on Selling Internet Priority – NYTimes.com.
Google and Verizon are discussing an agreement where Google would pay for preferential treatment on Verizon’s network. I hope Google has some larger strategy that we aren’t seeing here, because this could set an extraordinarily bad precedent.
Gigi B. Sohn, president and a founder of Public Knowledge, makes a great point: “The fate of the Internet is too large a matter to be decided by negotiations involving two companies, even companies as big as Verizon and Google.”
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I can’t begin to say how much I agree with this. Standards and open platforms for online social networking would be huge. The network effect would likely slow a migration down, but I’m glad someone is working on it.
Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL? – Computerworld.
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On Facebook, Google, and Our Evolving Social Mores Online – John Battelle’s Searchblog.
This is along the same lines of my previous post about the Tweeting CNN editor, but zooms out for a much broader view of the impact of online social networks on our moral frameworks. I have to dig deeper on this one, so I can’t comment here, but hopefully someone finds it interesting.
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I have a backlog of articles that are a little stale, but resonated to such a degree that i can’t resist commenting a bit on them. Hopefully they are new news to someone.
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