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Facebook’s dislike button is also about money
“Today is a special day,” said Facebook tycoon Mark Zuckerberg during the latest Q&A session with his users. Facebook users have been asking for a dislike button for years; today, he could finally announce there’s going to be one. Or something like it, anyway. It remains unclear what this new button is going to look…
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Regular phone calls will eventually disappear, too
Have you tried it yet, calling people using WhatsApp or Facebook? Making phone calls with an app on your smartphone is becoming easier and easier. Is this our cue to switch to data-only plans, or would it be better to hold on to the phone calls for a little longer? Making calls using WhatsApp was already…
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GCCS ‘cyber summit’ is a joke
To those in the IT world, the ‘cyber summit’ in the Hague is a joke. That’s what internet expert Danny Mekić says about it. „The governments are not talking about the one issue that matters most themselves: online espionage by governmental agencies themselves. Governments need to take a good look at themselves; the greatest threat…
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Digital government needs a Plan O: Plan Offline
It’s not very difficult, taking down a website or a server. „We don’t know who’s responsible for the attack on the Dutch government’s websites or how they did it, but it wasn’t necessarily a group of professional hackers. It’s not uncommon that some 16 year old learns in IT class that sites and networks can…
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Real Solutions for Real Problems
Danny Mekić (27) is a jurist, an internet expert and a businessman. He founded the strategic consultancy firm NewTeam and was declared ‘most successful young entrepreneur’ in 2009. He’s a man of many talents who is in love both with startups and with the establishment. Mekić tells us his contrarian views on the digital world. For example: our usage of…
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Instagram is growing under Facebook’s wing, gaining more users than Twitter
The camera is laughing at the bird: Instagram has outgrown Twitter. The snapshot and video sharing platform has 300 million users per month, whereas the 140 character phenomenon is used by 284 million people every month. A picture says more than 140 characters. That’s what you might conclude looking at Twitter and Instagram’s latest numbers.…