The Internet As A Media And a Medium
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“We plan to build this the way we’ve developed WhatsApp: focus on the most fundamental & private use case — messaging — make it as secure as possible, & then build more ways for people to interact on top of that, including calls, video chats, groups…..”
Says – We’re a very different company today than we were in 2016, or even a year ago. We’ve fundamentally altered our DNA to focus more on preventing harm in all our services, and we’ve systematically shifted a large portion of our company to work on preventing harm.
Despite launching products like Instant Articles & News Feed, FB realized, not too late in the day, that its relationship with publishers was going nowhere. In fact, it was proving to be detrimental & quite frankly, a headache for Mark.Z & his team. So the goodbye.
“Because space in News Feed is limited, showing more posts from friends & family & updates that spark conversation means we’ll show less public Content, including videos & other posts from publishers or businesses.” – Mark Z.
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg kicked off FB’s 1st ‘Communities Summit’ by underlining the role Groups play in the Facebook community & thanking the group admins who lead them.
Social network Facebook is experimenting with the transmission of the Web using a laser beam. FB’s Internet.org initiative announced that it was testing a method for delivering the Internet via lasers to help connect people around the world even faster.
Reports: Quartz, Engadget, Inquirer, StreetWise Report