Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label privacy. Show all posts
4 Reasons why Twitter > Facebook
Ultimately, Facebook relies on people coming to the Facebook site to view friends profiles, see updates and maybe less than 1% of the time to click an ad. If people continue to use outside programs which integrates all social media into one stream of updates like meebo's new iPhone app, and TweetDeck Facebook's revenue model will start to lose traction. This is one possible way Facebook could lose it's crown. For now Facebook is king of the castle and myspace like geocities before it is fading form the mainstream.
Apps like TweetDeck from Adobe allow users to view both Twitter and Facebook Status Updates at the same time without even opening a web browser. This format damages Facebook's revenue model but leaves Twitter in good shape, without a revenue model, yet. Read a hilarious fake news story about Twitter's 'NEW' revenue model.
ADDITIONAL READING: "The War of the Social Networking Giants" BY: Sandra Charan
...the next step of social media is full mobile/smartphone integration of personalized streams of information. The winner of the race will be the simplest, user-friendly mobile integration not necessarily the first.
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The Creative & Freedom
Computers and the internet have expanded the ability of individuals to not only create more but also to gain exposure for their creations. Artists both musical, visual and all are now able to show the world their work but the question begins to arise...
Who owns the rights to things put onto the internet? Many of us have been watching endless videos on youtube and other online video sites. I am wonder who owns the rights to those videos. What about when someone takes a video in a public street and posts it on the internet? Do they have the right to put other people's images on the web?
Where do the privacy rights of the public begin and end? The internet has grayed the lines between the individual's freedom and individual freedoms of privacy. This is the newest and most difficult area for the internet to establish some rules in. The wild west of privacy rights is the net...
Who will police it? Will anyone? Who will pay?
The future is uncertain but current trending has been leading to more social and less governmental or authoritarian power particularly on the internet.
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