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Q: Can we convert facebook into a global coop? A: WHY should we?
“Seems like Facebook is going downhill for here. Perhaps opportunity to convert it into a global coop?” When I saw this question asked online, I couldn’t help but repeat asking how to convert Facebook, Twitter and similar platforms into a global coop is not the right question. The right question is: WHY should anyone do such a thing? What good would it make?
Please STOP demanding (self) regulation of Facebook, INSTEAD of turning it into a...
Today, a former Washington Post publisher and Facebook board member rightly opposed requests “for the regulation of big technology companies”… but omitting a crucial point.
The cost of five MORE years without perclouds
The percloud (“permanent/personal cloud”) is the simple, integrated alternative to Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Flickr, Dropbox… that I first proposed in 2013. Yesterday, the P2P Foundation stimulated new discusssions about the percloud,
The fix for Facebook is NOT a different PLATFORM
An article by Roger McNamee titled “How to Fix Facebook - Before it fixes us” does a great job of describing the problems created by Facebook or any other platforms working in the same way, but contradicts itself when it proposes certain kinds of regulatory fixes.
Why I do NOT like Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)
Here’s an explanation (*) of why I do not like the Google technology and service called AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages).
Indeed, it seems that Google IS forgetting the old Web
XML pioneer and early blogger Tim Bray says that Google maybe suffers of deliberate memory loss. I may have found more evidence that this is the case.