Sunday, August 05, 2012

Who Should Run The Internet?


You want a G20 version of the top Internet companies. And you want that body to run the Internet. That is who.

US resists control of internet passing to UN agency
At present several non-profit US bodies oversee the net's technical specifications and domain name system...... They operate at arms-length from the US government but officially under the remit of its Department of Commerce

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4Chan: I Have Never Used It

Image representing 4chan as depicted in CrunchBase
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But it has become quite a cultural force, kind of like Anonymous.

4Chan reaches one billion posts
Based on stats from Google Analytics, between June 4th and July 4th of this year the site had more than 22 million unique visitors and 620 million page views — and those users are posting more than one million times each day

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Apple And Pinterest


How is that a fit? Facebook, yeah, but Apple?

Apple Wants To Buy Pinterest Rival, The Fancy
The Fancy takes a 10 percent cut of purchases. Last we checked in, sales were exploding.... Einhorn and Apple CEO Tim Cook met at Allen & Co.'s Sun Valley conference earlier this year. The notoriously private Cook, who does not visibly participate in any well-known social media sites, started using The Fancy shortly afterwards. ..... The Fancy raised a $10 million round at a reported valuation of $100 million last fall, led by PPR, the French luxury conglomerate behind Gucci. It previously raised $6 million in 2010; $2.7 million of that round went to Einhorn and his cofounder, his brother Jack Einhorn .... Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes are on the board .... Apple could well build an e-commerce layer into its operating system and let application developers hook into it, giving them a way to make money besides advertising. .... The Fancy's offices are situated above an Apple Store in New York City
My first time hearing the name The Fancy.

Pinterest Competitor, The Fancy, Now Powers $10,000 Per Day In Sales
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