EU Court Invalidates EU-US Safe Harbor Agreement in Data Privacy Case

source: EU Top Court’s Safe Harbor Decision Invalidates Safe Harbor and Sends Facebook Case Back to Irish Data Protection Authority | Mintz Levin - Privacy & Security Matters - JDSupra

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Kevin Roberts, Saatchi & Saatchi, On Social Media, YouTube, Facebook, Digital Video

Facebook Video Should Worry YouTube: Kevin Roberts: Video - Bloomberg:
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Kevin Roberts, executive chairman at Saatchi & Saatchi, talk about the White House’s use of social media and YouTube and how Facebook is leading the way in digital video. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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Mark Zuckerberg: We Take Connecting the World Seriously (video)

Mark Zuckerberg: We Take Connecting the World Seriously: Video - Bloomberg:
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg discusses his mission to connect the world. He speaks with Emily Chang on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 12/4)

ref. domain names: facebook.com and facebook.org

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A Domain Name? Many Small Businesses Use Facebook, Not Websites

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Says Many Small Businesses Use Facebook, Not Websites:

"Facebook plays an increasingly important role in how companies, particularly small businesses, connect with customers, Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said November 6th, during the first public town hall livestreamed from Facebook's Menlo Park, California, headquarters. Zuckerberg said 30 million businesses use Facebook pages, and "something like 30 or 35 percent of small businesses in the U.S. don't even have a website and just use something like a Facebook page to communicate with their customers."(source: Bloomberg BNA)

Who needs a domain name and website, when you can just use a Facebook page?

Domain Mondo | domainmondo.com: Are Domain Names Dinosaurs?: "... Need a web page? Facebook or Google or Amazon or Tumblr or Twitter or LinkedIn or Pinterest (and many, many others) will gladly provide you a web page with its own distinct URL, on an easy to use platform with lots of traffic, accessible on any device, including mobile devices through a native app, all for free! So the real competition for new gTLDS are Facebook et al, and apps--a "Billion-Dollar Trend" that alone is a major domain name killer...." (read more at link above)

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Airbus Drone Is Years Ahead of Google and Facebook for Delivering Internet Service (video)

See the Drone That Is Years Ahead of Google and Facebook -

Satellites are so 2014. Airbus is developing a high-altitude, solar-powered drone that can stay aloft indefinitely. It could deliver wireless service where towers are too hard or expensive to maintain. Sam Grobart reports for Bloomberg's "The Year Ahead: 2015 " series. (Source: Bloomberg Nov12)

ref. airbus.com
google.com
facebook.com

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Peter Thiel: Google More Dominant Than Facebook, Apple, Amazon (video)

Peter Thiel: Google More Dominant Than Facebook, Apple -

Peter Thiel discusses Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon. He speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Studio 1.0." He says Google is more dominant due to its core search technology. (Source: Bloomberg-Sep 17, 2014)

Peter Thiel - Wikipedia: ".. (born October 11, 1967) is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. Thiel cofounded PayPal with Max Levchin and Elon Musk and served as its CEO. He also cofounded Palantir, of which he is chairman. He serves as president of Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund with $700 million in assets under management; a managing partner in Founders Fund, a venture capital fund with $2 billion in assets under management; and cofounder and investment committee chair of Mithril Capital Management. He was the first outside investor in Facebook, the popular social-networking site, with a 10.2% stake acquired in 2004 for $500,000, and sits on the company's board of directors. Thiel was ranked #293 on the Forbes 400 in 2011, with a net worth of $1.5 billion as of March 2012... Thiel lives in San Francisco, California..."

"Google has a huge new moat. In fact, I've probably never seen such a wide moat."
 - Charlie Munger, 2009

10 Years Of Google And The Importance Of Long-Term Thinking - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: " Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) celebrated the 10-year anniversary of its IPO last week."

Domain Names of Companies referenced:
amazon.com
apple.com
facebook.com
google.com
mithril.com
clarium.com
foundersfund.com
paypal.com
palantir.com

see also: 
Google Domains -- Google's Domain Name Registrar
Google Registry -- Google's new gTLDs Registry

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Gender and Social Networks Online

The above graphic shows the population of some of the world’s most popular social platforms segmented by the gender of their users. Source: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, England (UK): (click on graphic to enlarge)

Data
"The graphic uses 2013 social network statistics (not publicly available at the time of writing, as being updated) collected via the Google Display Planner tool by Information is beautiful, who have also published a visualisation (using 2012 data) of the gender balance in social networks.

"Each bar represents a social network, divided in two sections: a red one on the left, representing the proportion of female-registered users in the social network, and a blue one on the right, representing the proportion of male-registered users. The width of the bars is used to convey the total number of registered accounts.

Findings
"This more-or-less equal gender balance can be seen in the two largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube, whose gender ratios are very close to the ratio in the general population (however, both do see slightly more male than female users).

"The third largest social platform, Google+, in contrast, has a higher proportion of males, with only 43% of its user-base being female.Twitter, in contrast, has a slightly higher female participation rate, with women accounting for 53% of its users.

"It is interesting to note that, despite the fact that we see a slightly higher overall male participation rate, we actually see a greater number of platforms that have a higher ratio of women to men. For instance, both Flickr and Tumblr have a ratio of over 55% female users. A similar ratio can be observed in the Google-owned social network Orkut, which is popular in Brazil and India. Meetup, which is one of the largest networks to facilitate group meetings, also has a predominantly female population, with only 38% male users. Foursquareand Myspace both have fewer than 40% male users, and the movie discovery website Flixster, has more than 70% female users.

"On the other end of the chart, the largest professional social network LinkedIn has only 40% of its accounts owned by female users. The social news and entertainment website Reddit has a similar balance. The population of the social discovery website Tagged is also highly skewed towards male users, as males account for over 60% of the user base. Finally, the social networking and gaming platformHi5 registers a mere 36% female users.

"On the whole (and with exceptions) we see that social, local, artistic, and parental-oriented websites tend to have a higher ratio of female users, and professional and games-oriented sites have a higher ratio of male users.

"As the Internet becomes available to billions of new people in the next few years, it will be important to keep a focus on how these statistics evolve. Will we start to see more gendered silos of use or more balanced platforms of participation?"

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Facebook has the best domain name strategy

Whatever else you may say about Facebook and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, without a doubt Facebook has consistently had the best domain strategy of all Fortune 500 companies, as evidenced below:

1) the change in domain name from thefacebook.com to facebook.com early in its existence--the company dropped The from its name after purchasing the domain name facebook.com in 2005 for $200,000;

2) refusal to waste corporate assets on the new gTLDs program of ICANN--unlike Apple, Google, or Microsoft, Facebook refused to participate in the new gTLD program, knowing that dot com is and will continue to be king. Facebook has consistently shown focus and discipline in enhancing, and not diluting, its trademarked name and facebook.com domain name;

3) Vigilant protection of its trademark and domain name through legal action--here's one example--Facebook CyberSquatting Judgement: 105 Domains; 10 Domain Holders; $2.8 Million in Damages – Draft | TheDomains.com: "A federal court in California awarded Facebook $2.8 Million dollars under the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA) yesterday."

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Why Facebook Can Never Replace Your Own Domain

I've run across business people who actually believe that a Facebook page is sufficient as their only web presence! Here's another reason (out of many) why a Facebook page can never be a replacement for your own domain:

Why Facebook Can't Be The Center Of Your Social Strategy - Forbes: "The customer conversations that happen across the social Web are filled with user generated content that can boost search results, but only if they happen on our own domain. . . . The most cutting-edge B2B and B2C brands are placing bets on on-domain, owned, social media hubs where they can control the brand, guide the experience, and drive real business outcomes. . ."

Microsoft Files Complaint Over XboxFitness Domain Name
NowGamer
Spotted by Fusible, Microsoft apparently made similar moves earlier in the year in order to gain control of the domain name XboxMusic.com before it launched that particular service. According to the site Microsoft filed for European Community trademark ...

South America, Amazon square off in fight over control of .amazon domain name
New York Daily News
Powered by Inform. South America is squaring off with online retailer Amazon in a battle over the coveted top-level web domain name the firm shares with the continent's tropical rain forest. Brazil and Peru are formally opposing the e-commerce giant's ...

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Moniker & SnapNames and the Dot TK Registry Announce Premium Registry ...
MarketWatch (press release)
AMSTERDAM, Dec 04, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Moniker(R) and SnapNames(R), both KeyDrive S. A. companies and leading providers of domain name solutions, announced today a new premium auction featuring Dot TK registry owned domains. ... "This is an ...

Thoughts on Web Hosting: The Importance of Domain Names - SYS-CON Media ...
Bayoubuzz (subscription)
The truth is, 1 & 1 is right – owning your domain name is vitally important for your business, both online and off. But why is this? What is so important about owing your domain name? If you're a business utilizing a web hosting service, why is your “www.

Domaining MBA Monday: 3 Ways To Avoid Buying Junk Domains ...
By Morgan
I do see your point, knowing the subject matter is of great importance, not getting carried away and buying the entire domain space surrounding the keyword is the best advice. ... But what metrics you use to see if a name is valuable? Here're ...
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Did Another Domain Parking Company Just Buy Internet-Traffic.com ...
By Michael Berkens
I just noticed an interesting domain name cross the Sedo.com sales wire today. The domain name is Internet-Traffic.com which is identical to Frank Schilling's monetization company, InternetTraffic.com with the addition of a hyphen.
TheDomains.com - Domain Blog

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