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Jonas Lind’s blog about innovations, business models, trends, and other things that propel the telecom/media sector forward

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Facebook: Microsoft deja vu?

April 30th, 2010, 19:52

There are increasing parallels between Microsoft’s strategy in the 1990s and Facebook’s today. Microsoft didn’t rise to the top of the industry by being nice. Whenever they could, they expanded aggressively, seized opportunities, and eliminated any potential competitors. In particular, Microsoft pushed their solutions, applications and APIs on to the market. When the network effects [...]

Category: Customers and Users, Media, Swarm, and Social Media | Tags: Facebook, microsoft, privacy | | Leave a comment

“Delete” – a new thought-provoking book about the Net and Information Policy

November 27th, 2009, 0:21

What will happen to society and the individual if everything is remembered forever and nothing is forgotten? This thought-provoking question is addressed by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger (information policy professor, National University of Singapore) in the book “Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age” (Princeton Univ. Press 2009). His pessimistic answer is that:

“Perfect, [...]

Category: Trends and Futurism | Tags: data retention, generational divide, moral panics, privacy, social media, Viktor Mayer-Schönberger | | Leave a comment

A privacy backlash on its way: telcos will be in center of the storm

August 30th, 2009, 15:22

After 9/11 it was inevitable that the trade-off between civil liberties and security would shift in favor of security. The thinking of this period can neatly be summarized in a quote by Tony Blair who said something like “if there is a new terrorist attack, people will not ask why we infringed on civil liberties [...]