Post(s) tagged with "beacon"

 Google teams up with New York City to offer free Wi-Fi in Chelsea neighborhood - Ben Popper via Verge Google has teamed up with city government and the Chelsea Improvement Project, a local New York City non-profit, to provide free Wi-Fi to the hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists who travel through this lower Manhattan neighborhood each year. Chelsea is best known as a chic district, home to Google’s major NYC offices, the Apple store, and numerous high-end shops, but also contains a large number of low-income housing projects and public schools. I want to start a non-profit in Beacon just so Google will provide us with free wifi.

Google teams up with New York City to offer free Wi-Fi in Chelsea neighborhood - Ben Popper via Verge

Google has teamed up with city government and the Chelsea Improvement Project, a local New York City non-profit, to provide free Wi-Fi to the hundreds of thousands of residents and tourists who travel through this lower Manhattan neighborhood each year. Chelsea is best known as a chic district, home to Google’s major NYC offices, the Apple store, and numerous high-end shops, but also contains a large number of low-income housing projects and public schools.

I want to start a non-profit in Beacon just so Google will provide us with free wifi.

8 January 2013 121 thisistheverge Permalink
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Source: Facebook To Launch Read, Listened, Watched, And Want Buttons | TechCrunch ⇢

Facebook plans to unveil ‘read’ ‘listened’ and ‘watched’ buttons as the upcoming f8 developers conference, hoping to increase social gestures dramatically. Sound like Beacon?

Leena Rao

If all of this is starting to sound a bit like Facebook’s infamous Beacon project, it shouldn’t be too surprising — from what we’ve heard a key part of these new Facebook features is to provide Beacon-like functionality in terms of auto-populating News Feed stories based around intent and actions. But they’ll do so without the advertising and privacy ramifications. At least for now…

Expect another Zuckerberg-puts-his-foot-in-it mess.

20 September 2011 23 Permalink
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