Two weeks on and the dust is still settling on Google+. Here on TNW we’ve dissected it every which way and continue to make observations as we use it more and more. Today I was preparing some work for a client on social media policy and it immediately struck me how G+ challenges a significant implicit assumption I’ve often used in development of social media policy. A necessary evil Let’s face it, very few people love policies....
We called last year for Google to add more people to it’s algorithms and that is exactly whatit has done this weekby providing publishers with the ability to add the +1 button to their websites. Given how much publishers all over the world rely on Google for traffic you can expect it to start becoming standard on most sites pretty quickly as publishers hope to gain from it. So given that this is one of the biggest changes Google has ever made to its search results (or it will be when it’s fully rolled out and if users embrace it) here is everything that you need to know about the Google +1 button…...
You’ve likely run into this claim from tech giants before: “We do not sell your personal data.” Companies fromFacebooktoGoogletoTwitterrepeat versions of this statement in their privacy policies, public statements, andcongressional testimony. And when taken very literally, the promise is true: Despite gathering masses of personal data on their users and converting that data into billions of dollars in profits, these tech giants do not directly sell their users’ information the same waydata brokers directly sell data in bulk to advertisers....
What does it cost to charge an EV? We show you the math Get your calculator out, we’re about to get numbersy Time for the math In this example, we’re going to calculate how much it costs to charge your EV at home. The cost of using public charge points varies a lot, so it’s best to check with each provider to figure how much that would cost. Anyway, the first step is to figure out how much you pay per kilowatt hour (kWh)....
Light is fast. In fact, it is the fastest thing that exists, and a law of the universe is that nothing can move faster than light. Light travels at 186,000 miles per second (300,000 kilometers per second) and can go from the Earth to the Moon in just over a second. Light can streak from Los Angeles to New York in less than the blink of an eye. While 1% of anything doesn’t sound like much, with light, that’s still really fast – close to 7 million miles per hour!...
