all started when big corporations were lured by the potential of the Internet to do business and set out to conquer, as they had done everything else I will not talk about the bubble burst Nasdaq nor the problems of the owners of record and its fight against free downloads, that has been written already, and this paper points to another type of discomfort. The idea is to talk
unease about freedom of expression on the internet and the loss of power of corporations to manage the information circulating on the web, although there have been several attempts, the rapid change in Internet and have achieved massive dribble controls and follow their course, as usual.
One of the first signs is discovered after the creation of the labor WikiScanner Virgil Griffith, http://virgil.gr/ , a tool that allowed companies to see what had edited the Wikipedia content, crossing the information content issues with the IP address blocks owned by different companies. In its first runs the WikiScanner sent to the front to the CIA, the BBC, the Vatican, Al-Jazeera, Fox News, Apple, Exxon, EA Games, Coca Cola, Dell Computers, the FBI, Microsoft, The New York Times, the National Rifle Association, Reuters, the Republican Party and the Conservative Party of USA and Disney, among other corporations had corrected the Wiki content that violated their images and they were spotless controversial.
Last week, we were surprised by the news that the CIA had bought the company Visible Technologies, a company dedicated to social networks control after a series of failed attempts to spy on social networking profiles that failed to raise false much interest (the real page of the CIA met on Facebook just 80 fans).
http://www.internauta.org.ar/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=150:la-cia-se-enreda-en-la-red-&catid=60: security-informatica & Itemid = 68
There will be attentive to the evolution of this purchase and social networks affected by the controls, do not forget the atrocities that have made these guys in Latin America as a "struggle against communism 'on especially now they have started their new crusade, the "fight against terrorism."
This past weekend was pretty fun at least in terms of Corporations bothered, first received through Facebook rather contradictory two links, one of the iPad elmundo.es proclaiming the winner of the 2010 Awards Fiasco and a BrainStorm Tech that marked the success of sales iPad had on their first day (120,000 orders). While she was nominated for the prize of 7,000 only 4,325 fans also appears that, for a company of Apple fame, 120,000 orders do not represent the mentioned box-office success mentioned in the note (and continues to look suspect that both were published news the same day).
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2010/03/11/navegante/1268337729.html
http://brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2010/03/13/day-1-estimate-120000-ipads-sold/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed & ; utm_campaign = Feed:% 20fortuneapple20% 20% 28FORTUNE: 20Apple% 202.0%
The other inconvenience of this weekend came on Friday March 12, a Facebook group for fans of TV program June 7 8 (a progressive news Official Channel) was convened in order to support democracy and the president of Argentina, Dr. Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. It turns out that the government is in full dispute with Grupo Clarin root Entrepreneur of the new media law that goes against the media monopolies and, therefore, against this group, among others. None of the media managed by the Grupo Clarin published news about the progress of autoconvocados (in addition to supporting the government criticized the Business Group), but some supporters of the program and / or the President, addressed to upload photos and videos to network of this group, called 'TN and People'
( http://www.tnylagente.com.ar/home ):
After
successive reproductions of the video and the rise of comments in the post managed to position it in the top of the social network:
I can not help but imagine the network administrator 'TN and People' torn between supporting the success of a post that left fore censorship carried out by the Group in TV, radio or newspapers and delete the post, with the consequent loss of followers in the network, the social networking censorship goes against the spirit and can have disastrous consequences to users whether are in favor or not the group.
Finally and not least important, these days I read the blog of Jose Julian de Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain ( http://josep-julian.blogspot.com/2010/03/carta-un-cliente-desconocido.html ) who published a fictional letter to a prospective client, a very funny note is about the mistreatment that have dealt customers demonstrating contempt for Providers and, above all, with the consultants. While it is addressed to a fictitious customer is assumed that the muse has been a current or past client or the sum of all of them, so to be careful about mistreating suppliers or customers because the Internet gives rematch.
Definitely, the Internet is becoming uncomfortable and this discomfort is generated mainly exposure and not people (as we wanted to sell at the time) but of the corporations who fail to understand the philosophy of Web 2.0, which requires them to be in solidarity with the community without even guarantee a profit line. Hopefully this exposure will generate, in corporations, knowing better habits judged by the European rather than further attempts to control or manage Web content. Moral
As I tell the prisoner's dilemma of John Forbes Nash (in the movie 'A Beautiful Mind') that points to the importance of aligning personal goals to the community or group that are, for the benefit of all group. The prisoner's dilemma is about two accused of theft to which questions and provide them the following alternatives, if both are convicted, the two prisoners will have a lesser penalty (say 2 years), if one betrays the other and the other is found guilty, the betrayer and the betrayed is free get a penalty term (say 5 years ) and if both are betrayed, the two prisoners receive is worth more (say 10 years).
As you can see, the best option (if one seeks only personal gain) would be to convince the other prisoner to confess and betray both, the most beneficial option for both as a group would confess both and the worst would be that both were betrayed. Obviously, none of the prisoners can see what the other and, in all occasions, both end up betraying prisoners, getting the more severe penalties, is desirable for corporations, over time, understand that Web 2.0 will demand solidarity and conduct, words that are hardly in the Data Dictionary of a large corporation.
