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here it is in full: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21646802...
In the UK, there have been quite a few TV ads from Facebook recently. Yesterday, after watching another one, my girlfriend commented: "Even Facebook is making ads now - this tells us a lot about how well things are going for them."
Facebook is expected to say that it will turn its app - called Messenger - which has 500m users, into a "platform". That means others will be able to develop software for it (for gaming, hotel bookings, tickets and so on). Doesn't FaceBook have form in encouraging people to use its interfaces and facilities, and then either cutting them off or starting to charge unexpectedly? I wonder what guarantees they will give t…
FB is in a much stronger position now, and conversely, publishers have only gotten weaker. Ideally, publishers would take the tack that you've described...FB will undoubtedly provide some kind of API that would make it easy for news orgs to export their CMS data as easily as they do for their print and web editions...if publishers don't like how things are going, then they just pull out, and their API points to another platform.
The problem is that publishers are very weak financially and have shown very little ability to innovate. And consumers have shown mostly apathy about the way their daily attention is diverted to social networking and linkbait...so news publishers have serious existential issues on top of their financial ones.
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/facebo...
Ugh. At least the world has managed to have "Email" as a standard, a medium, that is not controlled by any huge corporation's grubby claws. Why not with chat? What happened to this? Why is there a war for my data with these big companies, who do NOT have our best interests in mind, and never will? Why can't we have a federated standard for chat, controlled by no one? It seems that we have come close at various times…
It's similar, however, in that consumers have a lot of choice, with no one chat application really being that much better than any other in terms of features or experience, just that if we could just get everyone on one and for that one application to continue to improve, everything would be great, in theory.
This isn't going to stop any time soon.
Ugh. At least the world has managed to have "Email" as a standard, a medium, that is not controlled by any huge corporation's grubby claws. Why not with chat? What happened to this? Why is there a war for my data with these big companies, who do NOT have our best interests in mind, and never will? Why can't we have a federated standard for chat, controlled by no one? It seems that we have come close at various times…
This is why I simply love IRC.
In the UK, there have been quite a few TV ads from Facebook recently. Yesterday, after watching another one, my girlfriend commented: "Even Facebook is making ads now - this tells us a lot about how well things are going for them."
Heh, good point. Google advertises on Google but I have hardly seen a Google ad outside of a page that displays Google ads. Disclaimer: I don't watch TV.
Ugh. At least the world has managed to have "Email" as a standard, a medium, that is not controlled by any huge corporation's grubby claws. Why not with chat? What happened to this? Why is there a war for my data with these big companies, who do NOT have our best interests in mind, and never will? Why can't we have a federated standard for chat, controlled by no one? It seems that we have come close at various times…
In the UK, there have been quite a few TV ads from Facebook recently. Yesterday, after watching another one, my girlfriend commented: "Even Facebook is making ads now - this tells us a lot about how well things are going for them."
Heh, good point. Google advertises on Google but I have hardly seen a Google ad outside of a page that displays Google ads. Disclaimer: I don't watch TV.