Facebook had a very bad week last week. Former product manager Frances Haugen was revealed to be the whistleblower behind the Wall Street Journal’s “Facebook…
Category: Facebook
OPLIN 4Cast #770: Letting Facebook define your metaphorical universe
Posted in 4cast, augmented reality, Facebook, and Virtual reality
Neal Stephenson invented the term “metaverse” for his 1992 cyberpunk novel Snow Crash, envisioning this 3-D virtual space that is a successor to the internet.…
The Google Glass project ultimately fizzled—buggy performance, few practical applications available, the surveillance aspect creeped people out, and the glasses themselves were just ugly—but development on the smartglasses idea continues to bubble along. Last week, Facebook announced Ray-Ban Stories, which might start propelling these into the mainstream.
OPLIN 4Cast #765: Facebook wants to replace Zoom meetings with virtual reality
Posted in 4cast, Facebook, and Virtual reality
Although not many American homes have a VR gaming rig, virtual reality is hardly the new kid on the technology block these days. While it…
OPLIN 4Cast #691: Unprecedented spike in residential internet demand
Posted in 4cast, Braoadband, Facebook, Netflix, and YouTube
Over the course of two weeks, Ohio library internet traffic dropped from daily peaks over 8 Gigabits per second down to brief spikes that barely…
January 28 was Data Privacy Day, and Facebook took the occasion to announce that it was putting its “Clear History” function, now rechristened Off-Facebook Activity Tool, into general release. Not a cure-all, but certainly a step in the right direction. Good thing we only have to think about data privacy on one day a year, right?
This week, a friend said to me, “If Facebook fell into the sun about now, I’m not sure I’d be sad.” Personally, I was having…
“You’ve got to be doing video. That’s all Facebook is going to be, very soon. Even their algorithms are going to start promoting video content…
I think about quitting Facebook. A lot. There was a time in my life when I couldn’t imagine living without it, but that time is…
Yes, I know I wrote about “fake news” just two weeks ago. But there have been some interesting developments to watch. Last week, Facebook CEO Mark…