I guess it would be a public outcry if they came out and said it is in their interest to have lower privacy to compete in Twitter like real time search and with Google.
Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Diaspora project
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Diaspora project
#52It all just sounds like:
"I'm not the bad guy; see? See? This donation proves it."
"I'm just like the Diaspora devs. I'm a hip young hacker too! I'm just like them! I'm a good guy too."
"Daww, aren't they the cutest things? Making either what I already found wouldn't work, or what did work but what I've already done better."
It is cool that he's donated to the project. That said, his responses in the interview just come across as posturing, self-promoting, and some light FUD apropos Diaspora. Not terribly convinced here.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg: I Donated to Diaspora project
#53Reading his responses, he doesn't come off as the money-hungry psychopath that he was claimed to be. Either he knows how to hide his agenda very well, or, well, he's just your usual young founder.
No majorly successful founder-CEO is "in it for the money." If he wanted to just buy Lamborghinis and penthouses, he would have sold the company for $1 billion several years ago. Anyone like Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Ellison, etc. are in it for the power, megalomania, and manifest destiny -- not for the money.
What annoys me about it is that this meglomaniac is actually defining how we communicate with eachother online. What effect does this have on people's mentality? .. my guess is at least some!