Interesting Links for 11-05-2012

[andrewducker]

• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore
  (tags: computers design )
• Derivatives trader: 'The trouble is, regulators are idiots'
  (tags: regulation finance london money )
• External auditor: 'Nobody at a bank can have a complete overview any more'
  (tags: banking uk finance )
• Melinda Gates wants family planning back on the global agenda
  (tags: contraception family GatesFoundation )
• 'Snooper's charter' delayed after last-minute coalition talks
  (tags: privacy politics uk )
• Why France Has So Many 49-Employee Companies
  (tags: employment business france )
• Communications interception — dazed half-memories of a conference call with Julian Huppert
  (tags: law politics uk internet privacy )
• Community coming back for a final season of 13 episodes
  (tags: tv community )
• Facebook now charging people if they want to make sure their friends see their posts.
  (tags: facebook money )
• Heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist
  (tags: astronomy space physics )
• Maternal antibodies to gluten linked to schizophrenia risk in children
  (tags: schizophrenia gluten )
• Susceptibility to autism may be the price we pay for being human.
  (tags: autism brains humanity intelligence genetics )
• The salesman and the developer
  (tags: business marketing sales development )
• Facebook Rolls Out File-Sharing for All Groups
  (tags: files facebook sharing )
• Smartphone users think differently to those with non-smart mobiles.
  (tags: mobile_phones behaviour society technology )

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

In re Facebook: $2/post seems really steep. If I were running Facebook, I'd make highlighting posts free, and the ability to only see highlighted posts (possibly only highlighted posts from selected people) cost something like $2/month.

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I wonder if this would be tied into to disallowing the current "subscribe to all updates from X" option, or if the assumption is that most people leave it at the default of only see important updates or that many people have so many friends on FB that they couldn't set it to see all updates from most people without having a nigh-endless feed of updates.

Having the person who wants their posts visible be the one who pays is clever, since it means people can think "Heh, I'll never be one of those suckers who pays", while having the option to pay to -view- something would make it seem like people were being locked out of (for want of a better word) content.

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

My suggestion isn't that people would have to pay to view highlighted posts, it's that they would have to pay to not see non-highlighted posts.