"If a cartel of major ISPs is paid to promote YouTube, say, at the expense of everyone else's video site, small businesses everywhere will feel the sting." - Should we outlaw Akamai then? I think what you've described is precisely what they're doing, with edge servers closer to the user, and dedicated racks in major ISPs.
What happened when you tried someone else's e-mail address?
Only if 'Search for me on Facebook' is set to 'Everyone'
http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=privacy§ion=basic
"Someone in these kind of stories always suggests that you set up your own Facebook-like service or just a website. That's just thinking too much of yourself - why would people visit your site just to see your stuff?" - Well, you can do that with Open Graph protocol with the caveat that it works for pages only. But you can host your own entity, or, like TripAdvisor, create thousands of Facebook page equivalents all controlled by you.
How do you generate News Feed that's interesting and not just a collection of useless facts?
Semiconductors were invented by a man with some pretty wild ideas. I'm assuming you whole-heartedly support them, as you have voted with your money for products containing semiconductors.
Accel also invested in Foundry Networks and 2Wire.
Serving on a board of a random association is a super-strong tie, shouldn't Accel be funneling the data to The Man on the router level though?
Disclaimer: I work for the company mentioned in the article, not in legal role though.
Privacy is dynamic and "publicly available information" is not set in stone - user could've chosen to hide specific bits of that information a few minutes later, and there doesn't seem to be any update protocol to remove those bits from the scraped DB.
Hey, thanks for the clarification, but the complete sentence is still incongruous.
So "Silicon Valley brethren" is metonymy then for Redwood City, Palo Alto and Cupertino?
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