How Google Works - The rules for success in the Internet Century. Thanks for nothing, jerkface. Brin told the audience at boutique Bay Area tech conference Recode that he he was “kind of a weirdo” and "It was probably a mistake for me to be working on anything tangentially related to social to begin with.
" It runs in stark contrast to when Brin told the world how he came to love Google Plus, and admitted to taking a direct hand in its design at the October 2011 Web 2.0 conference. Seated onstage next to Brin, Vic Gundotra told the audience that "its design owes a lot to Brin's vision. " Brin's statement comes only one month after the man he hired to create and run Plus -- Vic Gundotra -- quit Google quietly, and without explanation.
Google+ broke our trust Thanks to one crystalline moment of Google+, it became clear that a company we trusted couldn't be trusted at all. "Ex-Google employees were deleted. Google began its "real name" enforcement with mass Google+ account suspensions and deletions shortly after Google+ launched in July 2011. Ex-Google employees were deleted. Oh, right. Digital disruption: The Privacy Revolution and the Rise of the Personal Data Economy. Amplify was founded to bring the edge of innovation and emerging trends that impact business, straight to you.
So what is behind this behaviour shift? Consumers are waking up to some of the risks attached to the sharing of their personal information and online habits, and want to know: • What is happening to the data they share? • Who is using it? • How is it secured and safeguarded? • What is the value of their digital ‘footprint’? • Can they trust that their information is being used appropriately and in the right context by those that ‘harvest’ it? Legislators around the world are scrambling to catch up with technological innovation, surveillance and hacking scandals, the ethics of data collection, predictive analytics and the trading of people’s personal data.
And, innovators and entrepreneurs are responding to the changing tide by creating new solutions that balance the rights of private individuals against the power of massive corporations. Threat or opportunity for the enterprise? Dr. Google just disrupted the conference business with Hangouts On Air. If you organize conferences and similar events, your future in terms of how you organize and price your events just got really interesting.
If you’re a conference-goer, events that might be out of reach to you for reasons of distance and/or total cost including travel and accommodation, just got equally interesting. It’s all down to Google+ Hangouts On Air, the new live-broadcast feature of the video chat service that’s a mainstay of the Google+ social network. This morning, I took part in two sessions at the LeWeb conference currently taking place in London, via a Hangout On Air parachuted in, so to speak, with my computer webcam and broadband internet connection.
From the comfort of my home office, I was actually part of the event, joining in discussion with people who were speakers at the event physically there in front of the crowd. So the HOA (get used to that abbreviation) was about joining Loic and Bradley and being part of their conversation. Welcome to the future. Related.