Links April 15-17 2018
Tuesday April 17, 2018
A Facebook patent application for software code that determines your socioeconomic level. patents.google.com
A decade after the bubble burst, house-flipping is on the rise: npr.org
The FCC last fall deregulated a large set of rules for television, print and radio on a premise that people now get their news from Facebook. A broadband adviser appointed by the FCC chairman has been arrested on fraud charges. verge.com
With few ways to escape smartphone alerts, people are returning to flip phones with separate iPods in a device divorce wave sweeping the country. sfgate.com
Monday April 16, 2018
Waymo applied for a driverless car testing permit through California DMV: "Waymo told the DMV its cars can handle city streets as well as highways up to 65 mph, and can navigate both day and night, through fog and light rain. The implication is that the cars are not yet ready for snow or torrential downpours." sfchronicle.com
Debonair and shrewd former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown noticed something tech reporters missed: "Dressed in his new, slightly ill-fitting, off-the-rack suit" Zuckerberg tried to appear unoffensive. sfchronicle.com
"It says 'The terms govern your use of facebook and the products, features, apps, services, technologies, software we offer facebook's products or products, except where we expressly state that separate terms and not these apply,' I'm a lawyer I have no idea what that means." c-span.org
Political candidates use an analog version of *dark ads* with "direct mail" campaign flyers - one advert sent to one set of voters, another advert sent to another set of voters. marketplace.org
Sunday April 15, 2018
"Facebook is scrapping the targeting tool and will stop sharing anonymous information the brokers use to measure ad performance" how outside "ad tech," much of which is very ethical and does not store names, races, no longer can measure ad *conversions*. bloomberg.com
A Facebook patent application for software code that determines your socioeconomic level. patents.google.com
A decade after the bubble burst, house-flipping is on the rise: npr.org
The FCC last fall deregulated a large set of rules for television, print and radio on a premise that people now get their news from Facebook. A broadband adviser appointed by the FCC chairman has been arrested on fraud charges. verge.com
With few ways to escape smartphone alerts, people are returning to flip phones with separate iPods in a device divorce wave sweeping the country. sfgate.com
Monday April 16, 2018
Waymo applied for a driverless car testing permit through California DMV: "Waymo told the DMV its cars can handle city streets as well as highways up to 65 mph, and can navigate both day and night, through fog and light rain. The implication is that the cars are not yet ready for snow or torrential downpours." sfchronicle.com
Debonair and shrewd former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown noticed something tech reporters missed: "Dressed in his new, slightly ill-fitting, off-the-rack suit" Zuckerberg tried to appear unoffensive. sfchronicle.com
"It says 'The terms govern your use of facebook and the products, features, apps, services, technologies, software we offer facebook's products or products, except where we expressly state that separate terms and not these apply,' I'm a lawyer I have no idea what that means." c-span.org
Political candidates use an analog version of *dark ads* with "direct mail" campaign flyers - one advert sent to one set of voters, another advert sent to another set of voters. marketplace.org
Sunday April 15, 2018
"Facebook is scrapping the targeting tool and will stop sharing anonymous information the brokers use to measure ad performance" how outside "ad tech," much of which is very ethical and does not store names, races, no longer can measure ad *conversions*. bloomberg.com
