Google has started notifying users in China when they use search terms that are censored by the Chinese government, the company announced on its official blog.
When a user in China types such a keyword into Google’s Chinese search site, a warning will show up, explaining that the term might trigger China’s Internet blockade mechanisms.
In one of the latest signs of the impending apocalypse, Billboard Brasil has created a playable guitar/urinal that wails while you whiz. Read this blog post by Amanda Kooser on Crave.
It’s an interesting rumor from Pocket-lint citing “trusted sources”. And there are some further signs of this possibility, as Robin Wauters reports.
I’ve long-thought that Facebook would eventually build their own browser — and buying one would be significantly easier than building one from scratch. But the more I think about this now, the more I’m convinced that Facebook is going to bet the entire company on mobile. They’re already starting to. Instagram deal, etc.
That could mean acquiring Opera to take over their mobile browser project — and reports like this may back that idea up. But even that would be a temporary move. Facebook still needs to build their own phone (or at least phone OS) if they truly want to succeed in mobile.
When I look at Kickstarter, I see small businesses that have been funded by their customers. I see the acceleration of this shift away from the industrial manufacturing ideology to more of a maker economy. And I also see an idea so powerful that the company name has become a verb.
It’s worth contemplating one of the primary factors that drove Facebook’s adoption by (soon) 1 billion people: Loneliness. Americans have less support than ever — 1 in 8 in the Pew survey reported having no “discussion confidants.