One Facebook faultline that intrigues me now is different from my previous gutter sniping, chiefly: a curious self-made conflict in its core revenue stream.
Facebook's main source of revenue is advertising. Leveraging its vast amount of user data, Facebook promises and delivers targeted advertisement to its clients. Pressured by the market, Facebook must consistently deliver higher ad revenues, quarter after quarter.
Businesses know that Facebook users who come to them voluntarily are much more desirable since they are pre-qualified customers, ready to engage. So why not let those interested come to the business' page and sign up, no ad expense involved?
In an outstanding The Wall Street Journal article, "Decoding Our Chatter," Robert Lee Holtz delves into a phenomenon of technology intersecting society in profound new ways.
Something odd is happening.
It seems that Twitter is pretty damn good at detecting lies. "When a rumor is true, it spreads faster," says computer analyst Barbara Poblete at the University of Chile in Santiago.
While parsing Twitter messages sent immediately after Chile's 8.8 earthquake last year, Poblete recognized that tweets were a reliable indicator of the truth with an accuracy of nearly 70%.
Would you rely on one person, organization or company for your future?
Apparently, Mahalo and others think it's a great idea. And they even have a wonderfully over-reaching philosophical statement to persuade us: Jason (Mahalo founder and CEO Jason Calacanis) writes:
“The web is moving from the home of journalism and writers to the domain of experts. Web 3.0 is the era of experts – not writers.”
Wow. Not only the whole internet but the entire fucking planet will learn from experts, not writers. And by the way, it's Web 3.0 now, OK? Set your watches accordingly.
Writers, those pompous assholes who do things like write about stuff, especially about things they're experts about.
There are so many things wrong with that statement that I'm just going to let it sit there, in the corner, alone to think about what it's done. Idiots.
I'm surprised Seth Godin hasn't jumped on this toxic meme and written a bullshit book on it by now.
Humans beat the crap out of computers when it comes to understanding cgkinc.com | are you for real?language.
Depending on which school of Natural Language Programming (NLP) you have warmed to, machine language can not emulate or mimic human communications.cgkinc.com | are you for real? Some say it has to do with extra-lingual communication (eye movement, body language, environmental effects). Others have gone the scientific route and tried old-school ontology and semiotic research. Regardless, it fails. Miserably.
