Improve Collaborative Editing Of #Office Files With Dropbox & Project Harmony http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/improve-collaborative-editing-office-files-dropbox-project-harmony Interesting alternative to #Google Docs
The Slippery Slope of Silicon Valley
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/27/style/uber-facebook-and-others-bedeviled-by-moral-issues.html #Tech world Yin-&-yang – eg for $GOOG, amazing free services v #privacy concerns
The Solace of Oblivion http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/29/solace-oblivion In Europe, the right to be forgotten trumps #Google. In the US copyright is effective for this
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In the effort to escape unwanted attention on the Internet,
individuals and companies have had success with one weapon: copyright
law. It is unlawful to post photographs or other copyrighted material
without the permission of the copyright holder. “I needed to get
ownership of the photos,” Bremer, the Catsouras family’s lawyer, told
me. So he began a lengthy negotiation with the California Highway
Patrol to persuade it to surrender copyright on the photographs. In
the end, though, the C.H.P. would not make the deal.
Other victims of viral Internet trauma have fared better with the
copyright approach. In August, racy private photographs of Jennifer
Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities were leaked to several Web
sites. (The source of the leaks has not been identified.) Google has
long had a system in place to block copyrighted material from turning
up in its searches. Motion-picture companies, among others, regularly
complain about copyright infringement on YouTube, which Google owns,
and Google has a process for identifying and removing these links.
Several of the leaked photographs were selfies, so the women
themselves owned the copyrights; friends had taken the other pictures.
Lawyers for one of the women established copyrights for all the
photographs they could, and then went to sites that had posted the
pictures, and to Google, and insisted that the material be removed.
Google complied, as did many of the sites, and now the photographs are
difficult to find on the Internet, though they have not disappeared.
“For the most part, the world goes through search engines,” one lawyer
involved in the effort to limit the distribution of the photographs
told me. “Now it’s like a tree falling in the forest. There may be
links out there, but if you can’t find them through a search engine
they might as well not exist.”
…
The job had two parts. The first was technical—that is, creating a
software infrastructure so that links could be removed. This was not
especially difficult, since Google could apply the system already in
place for copyrighted and trademarked works. Similarly, Google had
already blocked links that might have led to certain dangerous or
unlawful activity, like malware or child pornography.
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Yahoo To Shut Down…Directory
http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/26/yahoo-to-shut-down-qwiki-yahoo-education-and-the-yahoo-directory Total victory for #textmining (ie Google) over manual #ontologies for web organization
Parable of #Google Flu: Traps in #BigData Analysis http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6176/1203.summary Replicating results is hard, w/ an ever-changing search algorithm
With #Google’s Cultural Inst., you can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits rising (>6M to Met in ’13)
https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/home
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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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With #Google’s Cultural Inst., can walk
“Alone in the Virtual #Museum”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/alone-virtual-museum Yet real visits on rising (>6M to Met last yr)
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…gazing at our laptops, will discourage people from actually going to these institutions. This is flatly untrue. Museum attendance is on the rise, dramatically so. The Louvre, the most visited museum in the world, currently hosts 9.3 million visitors annually, and, as the Art Newspaper reported in July, it expects a thirty-per-cent increase, to twelve million a year, by 2025. In second and third place are the British Museum, with 6.7 million visitors a year, and the Met, with 6.2, and the rest of the globe is catching up fast.
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https://security.google.com/settings/security/activity
Useful Google/Gmail page with lots of relevant security history
Note & Vote: How #Google… Avoids Groupthink In Meetings, by @jakek
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3034772/innovation-by-design/note-and-vote-how-google-ventures-avoids-groupthink-in-meetings But what if meeting is for learning, not voting
With This… Gadget, #GoogleGlass Can Read Your Mind
http://mashable.com/2014/07/10/google-glass-mind-reader EEG biosensor tells glass to take pics; neat but privacy worries