How social media can make history - Clay Shirky. Facebook and Twitter Are Reshaping Journalism As We Know It. January 19, 2009 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Editor's Note: This article combines two interviews by Rory O' Connor with the CEO of Facebook and the Co-Founder of Twitter. I spent much of last fall at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government as a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for the Press, Politics and Public Policy.
While there, I researched issues related to journalistic trust and credibility -- and in particular what role emerging social media might play in addressing those concerns. Rory O'Connor : With slumping public approval, journalism is facing a crisis of trust. Randi Zuckerberg: The concept of "the trusted referral" is integral to the success of content sharing on Facebook. We are beginning to see journalists and news/broadcast companies creating a significant presence on Facebook to engage with Facebook users and help facilitate this notion of the trusted referral to assist with the viral spread of content.
Google's Latest Patent Could Have You Going Around 'Liking' Everything With Your Hands. A drawing of the "heart" gesture from Google's latest patent. (U.S. Patent and Trademark Office) The patent, vaguely titled "hand gestures to signify what is important," appears to pave the way for a model of Glass controlled by hand gestures instead of or in addition to verbal and touchpad commands. If acted upon, the technology could help Google live up to the futuristic expectations it's built for the glasses. Current advertisements for Glass imply that the headset will offer a totally hands-free user experience. Though Google's patent has been approved, that's no guarantee the company will use it. Perhaps the "heart" hand motion will merely complement Glass's extant interface, or function as a hook for a photo-to-product service like Amazon's phone app, Amazon Mobile, which lets you snap a picture of a product and then find it online.
We'll have to wait and see -- and maybe "like" it when it comes. Earlier on HuffPost: How to Erase Yourself From the Internet. "1 In 5 Tech Firms Have Rejected A Candidate Due To Their Social Media Profile [INFOGRAPHIC]" : forhire. Google's Long History of Social Media Attempts [INFOGRAPHIC]
Sure Facebook privacy issues can be frustrating, but what's the alternative? With more than 400 million users, no other social media platform has been able to touch Facebook's grip on person-to-person networking. But rumors have already started to fly that Facebook may soon face some stiff new competition. Google is supposedly getting into the market with Google Me, a not-yet-launched, oft-rumored social network that will directly compete with Facebook. Nothing is for certain yet, but more and more sources are saying Google Me does exist, and that could mean good things for all of us.
If anyone were to take on Facebook, Google has the engineering talent, deep pockets, and customer loyalty required to give it a fair shot. Still, Google hasn't had the best track record when it comes to social media attempts. Rather than a boring old list of past efforts, we decided to put together a graphical timeline with text by our very own Stephanie Marcus and graphics by Shane Snow. Remove your social media from Google search. Many social media sites offer options to help protect your privacy on the Web. You can make your profile private, which won't allow anyone you haven't approved to see your information, or you can remove your name from the account and use a different nickname that only friends would look for.
However, these changes will only affect your content moving forward, not the stuff you've posted in the past. So if you're just seeking a quick fix to get your personal thoughts and pictures of past and present out of the results, this is how you can do that. First you'll need to copy the URL for your profile. After submitting the cached information (if necessary), you will see the status page load again detailing your request along with the date. There's no set time on how quickly the information will be removed, so if you need your information hidden from results because you're interviewing for a new job soon, submit your request as soon as possible. Google+ Is Getting Harder And Harder To Avoid. We all saw this coming. On Thursday, Google introduced deeper Google+ integration into its email service to allow any Google+ user to send each other Gmail. It’s the search giant’s latest push to make Google+ the glue that holds together all Google services.
This writing has been on the wall for a while now. Last year, Google began requiring Google+ accounts for all YouTube users who wanted to comment on videos. See also: Now Anyone Can Gmail You Via Google+ But as Google continues its effort to tie all its services together in a neatly wrapped package, users are slowly feeling the pressure to conform to Google’s standards. That’s not to say Google is changing everything in one fell swoop. See also: Want To Comment On YouTube? As Google+ begins to become the platform all of Google is built on, our control lessens. The Biggest Problem With Google+ Google+ isn’t just Google’s version of a social network. See also: Google, Please Fix The Crippling Problem Plaguing Google+ Google+ Sign-In: Is It Bad Or Good For You? Ever since Google+ became required to comment on YouTube videos, there’s been a huge wave of backlash spreading across the Internet.
The backlash, however, has slowly died down. Users are beginning to accept the fact that Google may not be rolling back the changes regardless of how much people hate them. But is it really as bad as you think? Depending on who you ask, Google is either a saint company that’s revolutionizing the world towards prosperity and interconnection, or a demon company that’s led by a mixed abomination of Satan, Hitler, and the Illuminati all wrapped up in one.
Personally, I walk the middle of the road. Google+ Sign-In: The Good One account to rule them all. Google+ being integrated into multiple services is the next step in the evolution of online convenience. But wait, how does Google+ Sign In differ from the previous Google OpenID Sign In that already existed? It makes people more accountable. Google can improve its services. Google+ Sign-In: The Bad. Google's Grand Plan to Make Your Brain Irrelevant | Wired Business. Image: esenkartal/Getty Google is on a shopping spree, buying startup after startup to push its business into the future. But these companies don’t run web services or sell ads or build smartphone software or dabble in other things that Google is best known for. The web’s most powerful company is filling its shopping cart with artificial intelligence algorithms, robots, and smart gadgets for the home.
It’s on a mission to build an enormous digital brain that operates as much like the human mind as possible — and, in many ways, even better. Yesterday, Google confirmed that it has purchased a stealthy artificial intelligence startup called DeepMind. According to reports, the company paid somewhere in the mid-hundreds of millions of dollars for the British outfit. Lifelike robots, sentient machines, the Jetsons’ smart home in the sky. Though Google is out in front of this AI arms race, others are moving in the same direction. The New AI A Century of Sci-Fi Dreams Come True. New York Police Testing Google Glass To See If It Is Useful For Law Enforcement. Refresh’s personal dossiers take the work out of small talk.
By James Robinson On February 6, 2014 If the future gets its way we may never have to remember anything about anyone ever again. Immediately after speaking with Bhavin Shah, co-founder of Refresh, I downloaded his startup’s app, billed to be the only mobile service that provides “dossiers” of information about the people you know, meet and run into. After giving it access to a not inconsiderable amount of my personal information – calendar, email accounts, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn – it whirred into life. After logging in it presented to me a listing for the day and the people on my schedule. Having just concluded our conversation, Shah was at the top of the list. Refresh was formed in 2011 and the app has been in public beta mode since the end of last year. “Google approached us early in our development, right after Glass had been launched last year and there was such overlap between what we were both trying to do,” Shah says.
For Shah, the idea brewed for a decade. Nest is now officially a part of the Google family.