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Judith Schossboeck

Digital macht nicht dümmer - 0 views

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opensociety esociety gehirn

shared by Judith Schossboeck on 05 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 05 Jul 10
     
    Der Einfluss der neuen Medien ist wohl begrenzter, als die Ängste davor vermuten lassen. Statt über aktuelle Technologien zu jammern, sollten wir Strategien zur Selbstkontrolle entwickeln.
Johann Höchtl

What Happened to Yahoo - 0 views

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Yahoo Google Microsoft Facebook culture hackers innovation cubicle old

shared by Johann Höchtl on 12 Aug 10 - Cached
  • When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing.
  • What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company.
  • Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.
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  • The first time I met Jerry Yang, we thought we were meeting for different reasons.
  • we could show him our new technology, Revenue Loop. It was a way of sorting shopping search results.
  • It was like the algorithm Google uses now to sort ads, but this was in the spring of 1998, before Google was founded.
  • I didn't say "But search traffic is worth more than other traffic!"
  • Hard as it is to believe now, the big money then was in banner ads.
  • Led by a large and terrifyingly formidable man called Anil Singh, Yahoo's sales guys would fly out to Procter & Gamble and come back with million dollar orders for banner ad impressions.
  • By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth.
  • The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it.
  • I remember telling David Filo in late 1998 or early 1999 that Yahoo should buy Google, because I and most of the other programmers in the company were using it instead of Yahoo for search.
  • But Yahoo also had another problem that made it hard to change directions. They'd been thrown off balance from the start by their ambivalence about being a technology company
  • Microsoft (back in the day), Google, and Facebook have all been obsessed with hiring the best programmers. Yahoo wasn't. They preferred good programmers to bad ones, but they didn't have the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring the smartest people that the big winners have had.
  • The company felt prematurely old.
  • The first time I visited Google, they had about 500 people,
  • I remember talking to some programmers in the cafeteria about the problem of gaming search results (now known as SEO), and they asked "what should we do?" Programmers at Yahoo wouldn't have asked that.
  • In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture.
  • Probably the most impressive commitment I've heard to having a hacker-centric culture came from Mark Zuckerberg, when he spoke at Startup School in 2007. He said that in the early days Facebook made a point of hiring programmers even for jobs that would not ordinarily consist of programming, like HR and marketing.
  • Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
  • Johann Höchtl on 12 Aug 10
     
    Paul Graham hat mit dem Verkauf seiner Shop Lösung an Yahoo 1998 Millionen von Dollar gemacht. Er ist Buchautor und respektierter Columnist. Ein Artikel von ihm, warum seiner Meinung nach Yahoo scheiterte und FB und Google erfolgreicht waren.
Parycek

The Web Means the End of Forgetting - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...25privacy-t2.html

socialmedia internet web

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  • Parycek on 31 Aug 10
     
    NYTimes.com
  • Judith Schossboeck on 03 Sep 10
     
    extensive yet compact good stuff!
Judith Schossboeck

Die Zeit: Alle anderen sind auch bei Facebook - 0 views

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socialmedia facebook

shared by Judith Schossboeck on 27 Jul 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 27 Jul 10
     
    In einer aktuellen Verbraucherumfrage haben amerikanische Nutzer dem Netzwerk schlechtere Noten gegeben als dem Internetauftritt ihres Finanzamts. Dennoch hier die schockierende These: Bald wird sich einer über Facebook so wenig wundern, wie man auch nicht erstaunt nachfragen würde: „Was, du machst mit bei diesem Wahnsinn namens Telefonbuch?" Oder: „Was, du gehst abends zu fremden Leuten in die Bar, anstatt gemütlich zu Hause wirklich guten Wein zu trinken?" Fragt ja auch keiner: „Ist das nicht doof, gefährlich gar?"
Parycek

Internet: Null Blog - 1 views

www.spiegel.de/...0,1518,709492,00.html

study socialmedia youth

shared by Parycek on 07 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Judith Schossboeck on 07 Aug 10
     
    Jugend zur Generation Web 2.0 verklärt
Parycek

Elektrischer Reporter - 2 views

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socialmedia tv neues 3sat

shared by Parycek on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Parycek on 29 Aug 10
     
    @Johann: wie letztens erwähnt Sixtus als E-Reporter ebenfalls sehenswert:: Sixtus vs. Lobo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUCNlgEo2Zo&feature=related @Michael: Neues http://www.zdf.de/ZDFmediathek/kanaluebersicht/aktuellste/342#/kanaluebersicht/342 auch ohne tv ;-)
  • Johann Höchtl on 30 Aug 10
     
    Ist tatsächlich komplett an mir verüber gegangen. Großartig! Werde mir ein paar anschaun. Vlt. sollten wir auch mal versuchen so ein Video zu produzieren? "Im Internet bis du der Staat"
Johann Höchtl

U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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skype facebook FBI congress eavesdrop

shared by Johann Höchtl on 28 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.
  • The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation.
  • But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.
Parycek

Open Data: Gesetze zu verkaufen | - 0 views

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opendata de

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  • Parycek on 13 Oct 10
     
     Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
Judith Schossboeck

intercultural information ethics - 1 views

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intercultural ethics internet

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  • Judith Schossboeck on 05 Dec 10
     
    article collection
Judith Schossboeck

mediadem bericht - 0 views

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media democracy internet

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  • Judith Schossboeck on 05 Dec 10
     
    auch zu demokratie und medien, regulation etc.
Parycek

Open Government on the Internet - 0 views

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opengov opendata transparency

shared by Parycek on 27 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Conor Kenny, OpenCongress/Sunlight Foundation; Damien Brockmann, billhop.com; Eric Gundersen, President of Development Seed
  • Parycek on 27 Mar 10
     
    Panel Discussion: Transparency and Application Development | Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Johann Höchtl

How Open Data is Used Against the Poor - 0 views

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opendata empowering poor literacy

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • An 'effective use' approach to open data would thus be one that ensured that opportunities and resources for translating this open data into useful outcomes would be available (and adapted) for the widest possible range of users. Thus, to ensure the effective use of open data a range of considerations needs to be included in the open data process and as elements in the open data movement including such factors as the cost and availability of Internet access, the language in which the data is presented, the technical or professional requirements for interpreting and making use of the data, the availability of training in data use and visualization, among others.
Johann Höchtl

Open Data (2): Effective Data Use « Gurstein's Community Informatics - 0 views

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opendata empowering literacy lawsuit

shared by Johann Höchtl on 21 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • I will itemize what I think are the various elements that are required to be in place on the end user side for effective use of open data to take place
  • Internet access
  • Computer/software skills
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  • Interpretation/Sense making
  • Governance – the required financing, legal, regulatory or policy regime, required to enable the use to which the data would be put.
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