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Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
Since this is google, it is getting interesting:
>organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Comment · 7 years ago
1) With gmail, they have the foundation for good filters.
2) Google knows the identity of almost any internet user, as shown by the new recaptcha system.
3) They don't allow banned people to recreate new accounts. At least that seems to be a problem for people who were banned from the app store.
If they link this up, they should be able to keep inboxes clean. And if this fails, they just have to offer an option to switch to a whitelist approach for people whose inbox is flooded.
Comment · 7 years ago
How come the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit, but youtube discontinues the same feature? Has google entirely given up on getting a social network?
Google seems to constantly create new messenger apps. Why would they discontinue the one that could be used to turn youtube into a real social network? Instead of hiding the feature, they should enhance it and make it usable, i.e. make it easy to block harassment. Then they can offer an optional! integration with their other messenger apps which would allow them to compete with facebook.
Comment · 7 years ago
The negotiation power comes from different moving costs. As a tenant, you have to spend time finding new space, you have to pay for a moving company, you may have to renovate either the rooms that you are leaving or the rooms into which you are moving. Additionally you may lose direct contact to neighbors you like. All landlords have to do is look for another tenant. As long as it is not a buyers market, that's not much effort.
Comment · 7 years ago
Why don't you think that the hardest part is acquiring the viewers? At least nowadays, network traffic is cheap. You get 1TB for 1 euro [0]. You need 22 Mbps for 1080HD [1], which means you can stream 100 hours for 1 euro.
If you stream 5min clips, that's 1200 clips for 1 euro. There should be enough ad networks that offer 2 euro CPM to make a profit.
On the other hand, how can they make a profit if nobody is discovering their site?
[1] https://superuser.com/questions/434532/what-data-transfer-ra...
Comment · 7 years ago
It's more like I believe that the internet is becoming too much a cyberutopia in the sense of Thomas More. He stated that women had to be spanked to make it work. Turns out that men also have to be nudged into the right direction. If you look at facebook, google and apple, what else are they doing but creating an utopia for everybody? It's just not the men but the algorithms who do the spanking.
That said, it all comes down to discipline. There are people who don't need the nudging, who can follow protocols by their own choice. The internet allows them to find each other. That won't transform the world, but the internet will allow them to live their own utopia without bothering everybody else.
>Alexievich echoed Korolenko by claiming three homelands: her mother’s Ukraine, her father’s Belarus, and—“Russia’s great culture, without which I cannot imagine myself.” By culture she meant, above all, literature.