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The Insanity of Forcing Tech Companies to Pay For Linking to News
I’m sure many of you have already seen the ongoing battle between Facebook, and Google, and the Australian government. The government, mostly at the behest of Rupert Murdoch, is about to pass a law that forces the “big tech” companies to negotiate with news publishers to pay them for the content that is linked to on Google News or on Facebook.Â
I’m hear to argue that this is legitimately insane.Â
Linked – Credit reporting firm Equifax says cybersecurity incident could potentially affect 143 million US consumers
This is just bad. Horribly bad. “The company said the exposed data include names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses and some driver’s license numbers, all of which Equifax aims to protect for its customers.” Clearly, this is the sort of data that you don’t want out there. It’s all the stuff banks and other…
We Have All The Tech Tools to Connect that We Could Ask For, Yet There’s a Loneliness Epidemic
I’m sure by now you’ve seen the headlines all over the place. I’m only going to link one: New Study Shows Most Americans Are Lonely We have, in the last 150 or so years, (Since the invention of the telephone), come up with countless ways to communicate directly, and immediately, with each other. From those…
Also Not Quite Dead Yet; Xmarks!
At least it seems to have survived thanks to a new buyer. Details are non-existent right now, as with the Bloglines news, but it will be interesting to see what the new owners have in store for Xmarks users. Personally, I’ve rather been enjoying Firefox Sync, so I’m going to hold off on switching back…
Why I’m thankful for Social Networking
As we in the US get ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow, many of us like to blog about the things we are thankful for. Each year, as I dwell on that thought, certain things always come to the forefront. I’m always thankful for the life I have, for the people who love me,…
Want 50GB of Cloud Storage?
Thanks to some fellow Friends in Tech members, I learned over the weekend that Box.net is giving away upgrades to 50GB of storage if you download their iOS app and log in to the service. Now, there are some limitations to the Box.net service, as laid out over on the Mac Screencast Guy, but 50GB…
