Eli Pariser of the progressive organization MoveOn says the Internet is hiding things from us, and we don’t even know it. In this TED Talk he calls out Facebook, Google. and other corporations who are transforming the Internet to suit their corporate interests.
Does this strike a chord?
Eli does seem to hit the nail on the head with this one. Particularly in respect to Facebook and possibly even more so with Google’s introduction of Google Plus and the +1 button.
The Google Plus of TomorrowMike Elgan Contributing Editor of The CMO Site wrote:
Today’s Google+ is very different from tomorrow’s. And marketers need to be preparing for this future Google+, not the current one.In the future, however, Google+ will be everywhere and inescapable. Because any post by any user can be simply labeled “Public” and thereby turned into a search-indexed Webpage available to anyone, and because the posts can be of any length, more people will link to those posts as Webpages of all sorts. After Google publishes APIs, third-party companies will create services around Google+ that we can’t fully imagine yet. Google+ is nowhere now, but in the future, it will be everywhere — unlike Facebook and Twitter, which will remain largely isolated, walled gardens.