WhatsApp Cofounder Brian Acton Gives The Inside Story On #DeleteFacebook And Why He Left $850 Million Behind
Schitterende exclusive van Forbes: Facebook also wanted to sell businesses tools to chat with WhatsApp users. Once businesses were on board, Facebook hoped to sell them analytics tools, too. The challenge was WhatsApp’s watertight end-to-end encryption, which stopped both WhatsApp and Facebook from reading messages. Leuke vent, ook, die Mark: When Acton reached Zuckerberg’s office, […]
Rifts Break Open at Facebook Over Kavanaugh Hearing
The New York Times over problemen bij de sociale mediagigant: The apology came from Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s vice president for global public policy. A day earlier, Mr. Kaplan had sat behind his friend, Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, when the judge testified in Congress about allegations he had sexually […]
I Found Trump’s Biggest Fan
Ben Bradlee Jr. op Politico: “When people put Trump down all the time, it was hard not to think they were putting you down too,” Lynette says. “We were constantly being made to feel uneducated if we supported Trump. We felt like elitists were laughing at us. That hurt me.”
Inbox is signing off: find your favorite features in the new Gmail
Awoert, Google! As a result, we’re planning to focus solely on Gmail and say goodbye to Inbox by Gmail at the end of March 2019.
Brett Kavanaugh turns in a disqualifying performance
Nancy Gertner, voormalig federal judge, in een opiniestuk in The Boston Globe: With this performance, Kavanaugh became Trump’s version of what a judge should be, not unlike Trump’s version of what his attorney general should be. They were both supposed to be Trump partisans, not neutrals, and above all, ready for central casting.
One Small Step for the Web…
Tim Berners-Lee, ironisch genoeg op Medium: It is going to take a lot of effort to build the new Solid platform and drive broad adoption but I think we have enough energy to take the world to a new tipping point.
Raised by YouTube
Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic: The institutions of the 20th century shaped television into a tool for learning. Researchers, regulators, and creators poured tremendous resources into producing a version of children’s TV that, at the very least, is not harmful to kids, and that’s even been shown to be good for them under the […]
Vier, neen, vijf incidenten die bepalen hoe ik zal stemmen
Mensbrugghe: En iedere dag opnieuw – ja, iedere dag – maken autobestuurders beslissingen die mijn leven of dat van mijn kinderen in gevaar brengen. Te herkenbaar. Helaas.
Facebook Is Breached, Putting 50 Million Users’ Data at Risk
The New York Times: Facebook said on Friday that an attack on its computer network had exposed the personal information of nearly 50 million users. 🙄
Facebook’s recent ‘bear hug’ of Instagram frustrated its independent founders, leading to their exit
Kurt Wagner op Recode: Over the past year, both Systrom and Krieger have grown increasingly frustrated and agitated with Zuckerberg and Facebook’s increased influence over the app, according to multiple sources. One characterized it as “bizarre meddling” that hurt morale within the unit.