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Some chalked up Hurley’s success to “luck,” in having created a workable video site just when Google and the world wanted one. But others credited Hurley’s instincts and sensibility for maintaining a service that normal people, even the less technically adept, found easy to use.

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Nelson’s vision was to use computer technology to create a hypertext-based digital repository scheme for world-wide electronic publishing that is open to all humanity and to which anyone can contribute new content. You are free to use any content in this digital repository to create your work, paying only a small fee to its original author. You can... See more

Alan Chan • My Vision: A Forgotten History

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers,” author Neil Gaiman said. “A librarian can bring you back the right one.”

Mario Gabriele • All the Answers | The Generalist

Page rarely visited YouTube HQ—one person there while he was CEO remembered two trips—but during his rare appearances Page stuck to one edict: make videos load faster. Staff recalled Page stopping meetings to complain about YouTube’s buffering speed, which he once called, to YouTube’s embarrassment, “the biggest problem Google-wide.”

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When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. The question isn't just one of authentication and accountability, though those are important, but... See more

DIGITAL MAOISM: The Hazards of the New Online Collectivism | Edge.org

For most queries, Google search is pretty underwhelming these days. Google is great at answering questions with an objective answer, like “# of billionaires in the world” or “What is the population of Iceland”. It’s pretty bad at answering questions that require judgment and context like “What do NFT collectors think about NFTs?”.

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sariazout.mirror.xyz • Re-Organizing the World’s Information: Why We Need More Boutique… — Mirror

. Britannica is organized by subjects, Wikipedia by hyperlinks. Britannica is organized in alphabetical order. Wikipedia is a web of references with no beginning or end. Wikipedia is made by the people, for the people. It’s a collective memory machine where knowledge is accessible to everybody with a smartphone

David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?

Stanford lui offre son premier centre de recherche sur la loi et les nouvelles technologies. En embuscade au cœur de la Silicon Valley, il compte inventer le droit de l’Internet, espace de circulation des idées et de la connaissance qui bouleverse les règles de la propriété intellectuelle sur lesquelles prospère toute une industrie. Larry Lessig

Flore Vasseur • Ce qu'il reste de nos rêves (LITTERATURE (NO) (French Edition)

Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits

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