Facebook and Google
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Despite major blowback from a Facebook-funded smear campaign against Google meant to raise questions about Google’s privacy settings , the perception of neither company has been significantly damaged.
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A tag cloud (a typical Web 2.0 phenomenon in itself) presenting Web 2.0 themes. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
La bataille entre Facebook et Google est passionnante parce qu’elle démontre deux visions radicalement différentes du processus de globalisation. D’un côté, Google, qui pense qu’à la fin du processus de globalisation le monde sera organisé autour d’ordinateurs capables de tout faire. Dès lors l’enjeu est de construire des algorithmes et des fermes de serveurs véloces capables d’organiser et de comprendre l’information que Google aura numérisé. Derrière cette vision se cache une espérance prométhéenne. Des systèmes informatiques, débarrassés de la dimension affective et irrationnelle de la pensée humaine, seront capables de prendre les bonnes décisions, les plus efficientes et justes pour l’humanité. De l’autre, Facebook qui pense que la globalisation replace l’individu et son exigence de transparence au centre de tout.
Google versus Facebook
ANALYSIS — In 1993, The New Yorker ran a famous cartoon with two dogs near a computer, with one mutt telling the other “On the Internet, nobody knows you are a dog.” That was Facebook’s real trick — convincing the world to identify themselves online. They pulled that off by giving net users a place to share photos and pithy updates, when the real purpose of Facebook, it turns out, is to layer identity over the fabric of the web.
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A few years ago, Jeff Jarvis, a good friend of mine, published a book called What Would Google Do? When he wrote that book, Google had an aura of invincibility. Fast forward to today: Thanks to Facebook, it doesn’t seem so invincible.
Google and the Rise of Facebook
In 2007 I said that Facebook would be the home page for your personal brand. Now it seems that Facebook is officially setting out to become your homepage period. The other day I logged into Facebook and noticed a new message at the top of the screen. I was presented with a simple way to make Facebook my homepage so that I could see “what’s happening with friends as soon as I opened my browser.”What If Google’s Social Layer Is Chrome? What If Facebook Builds A Browser?
Since being wrestled back from Microsoft’s death grip, the web browser has thrived thanks to its openness. All of the popular browsers beyond IE — Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera — are either based on open-source or have a thriving community that helps develop and expand each of them. And it’s relatively easy for a user to switch between any of them. But what if that were to change? I have no direct knowledge that this is about to happen, but recent conversations have me thinking about this.
