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by 1010100101 15y ago
So should they still comply with the order? Why or why not? Why not issue an injunction to US-based ISP's or even IXP's to filter the IP addresses these domains point to, or even whole address blocks? Do you think they would comply?
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by 1010100101 15y ago
The problem here is the personal information is being voluntarily given to Facebook. And the FTC can do nothing about that. As far as I can tell, most people using FB are trying to communicate with their friends (as they previously did via
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by 1010100101 15y ago
And without a fair use exception to copyright, search engines like Google could not show matching web site excerpts in their results. Imagine search engine results that consisted only of URL's.
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by 1010100101 15y ago
I think jwz would agree that "hard working VC's" are not what makes a startup (nor the VC's) successful.
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by 1010100101 15y ago
He can't write code. He publishes a blog to attempt to persuade an audience of those who can. Before the blog, he worked with a company selling dropping domain names. Again, he wrote no code.
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by 1010100101 15y ago
Agree. I can remember the issue of the EC's database directive from as far back as the early 1990's. It was one of the issues we studied. At that time it seemed somewhat tenuous to apply it to what was happening on the nascent www. For the
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by 1010100101 15y ago
I'm sure some people might find Arrington very convincing as well (especially when he's recycling old jwz material). That may be why jwz has chosen to speak out.
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by 1010100101 15y ago
Agreed. But whatever value there is, it's in that data. And those gaming companies needed to scrape Facebook to get it. There's more value to create for whoever manages to monetise the data. But will it be Facebook? Or will it be someon
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by 1010100101 15y ago
The technology is out there, believe me. Making it super user-friendly is another matter. There is a better way to do social networks, I believe. But at present I can only demonstrate it with the command line. The user interface is just
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by 1010100101 15y ago
It's all about the short term, as the article makes clear. The biggest winners will be those who can cash out quickly. Goldman and some overseas investors. Long term I think the Facebook _data_ will be sold and resold (licensed) many, many
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by 1010100101 15y ago
Agreed. Another one who should get some flack is Thiel. He may just be the worst, suggesting kids should forgo a university education and going so far as to actually debate the "issue" whether an education is "worth it". For some of these V
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by 1010100101 15y ago
I think we have an answer.
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by 1010100101 15y ago
Sounds simple enough. It's probably far more revenue than they're making now. So why haven't they tried it? What's to lose?