Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
(Second in a series.) The Register quotes security guru Bruce Schneier saying: “Facebook is the worst [privacy] offender – not because it’s evil but because its market is selling user data to its commercial partners.” Facebook’s business model is to guide advertisements on its site toward users based on their interests as revealed by data [...]
I’ve just released a new PFF white paper looking at the hysteria that has often accompanied major media mergers and then taking a look at the marketplace reality years after the fact. Here‘s the PDF, but I have also pasted the entire thing down below. _____________________________ A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria: From AOL-Time [...]
Somewhere between Nick Carr’s “Typology of Network Strategies” and Chris Anderson’s “Four Kinds of Free” is the secret to understanding our new economy: Carr’s “Typology of Network Strategies”: Network effect Data mining Digital sharecropping, or “user-generated content” Complements Two-sided markets Economies of scale, economies of scope, and experience Anderson’s “Four Kinds of Free”: Direct cross-subsidy [...]
February 14, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
