President Obama has set a trend with his promises of “transparency” and real democracy in our federal government. It seems everyone is jumping on the bandwagon. Suddenly it is en vogue to demand total honesty and forthrightness from an entity, whether it be business or government. Take for instance a blog post by Brent Csutoras, which claims there has been a noted diminution of the “transparency” and “democracy” on social news aggregation sites such as StumbleUpon, Reddit, Digg, and Mixx. Continue Reading…
Posted 9 months, 2 weeks ago at 9:23 am. Add a comment
The social-networking world and its monetized back-end social-media circles got their chance to prove themselves recently in their first collective trial-by-fire when Google’s entire fleet of services went down for several hours last Thursday. The search giant offered no explanation at first, causing wild rumors to spread throughout the various networks, and productivity slowed to a crawl for many users. Word immediately got out that Google had its own “Fail Whale,” as news of the failure hit real-time feeds like Twitter and Facebook like only an Internet-disaster could.
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Posted 9 months, 3 weeks ago at 3:19 pm. 3 comments
