Detonator Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 Mark Zuckerberg: I want the WHOLE WORLD in my hands Comment Mark Zuckerberg's altruistic finger is twitching just as usage of his free content ad network appears to have plateaued. In a post on his personal Facebook account, Zuck asked: "Is connectivity a human right?" He thinks the answer to that question is "yes" and the copper-haired, flip-flop-wearing billionaire wants to work with other tech players to make internet access more affordable. To do this, he wants to make the net "more efficient to deliver data". At present, Facebook's CEO only has a "rough plan" for what he described as "one of the greatest challenges of our generation". Zuckerberg added that his company, which claims to have 1.15 billion users worldwide, had "invested" $1bn to connect people in the developing world over the past few years. Facebook has buddied up with Nokia, Ericsson, MediaTek, Opera Software, Samsung and Qualcomm to come up with Internet.org – a vehicle to promote Zuck's "rough plan" to get "everyone" connected. But he has spotted a flaw in getting more people online: [M]ost people in the world don't have much disposable income to spend on data access. Any plan to make internet access broadly available will require making significant technology and business model improvements that enable some access to be either very cheap or free for people who can't otherwise afford it. He added that global infrastructure costs, such as backhaul transport to carry data, were crushingly expensive. Zuck said these costs needed to be reduced so that telcos and mobile operators can continue to make ginormous profits while passing along savings to consumers. The network's chief then claimed that "most people have heard of Facebook and messaging" and apparently they want access to such services – they just don't know how to go about it. But here's the kicker: Zuck also acknowledges that many of the 5 billion people around the globe he is hoping to plug into Facebook "don't have phones". "Many are either very young or old, but many just cannot afford it," he said. "Over time we'll need to connect them too, but for now we don't yet have a plan for delivering internet to people who don't have phones or computers, so we're not covering that here." Oh. In the meantime, then, Zuckerberg is concentrating on building apps – such as Facebook for Every Phone – that use less data, while also lobbying for the underlying costs related to sending data over the net to be reduced. Facebook is specifically doing its bit, he said, by looking at areas such as "caching, data compression and simple efficiency optimisations". He said: A key constraint here is to define which basic internet services should have free data, and which require a data plan. If we get this right, then it will be possible to enable the most people to get on the internet while also sustainably generating the most profits for the industry. Facebook, of course, is a "free" service. Which in turn makes its users the product to the company's true customers – the advertisers. Zuckerberg goes on to characterise social networks as on of the "basic services" that work as "tools that people use to discover other content". Unsurprisingly, he goes on to say that "connecting with the people around you through a social network is a basic human behaviour". There have been a number of studies that might disagree with Zuck's grand statement, however. Some academics have looked, for example, at the supposed dehumanising effect of conversing online rather than in person with friends. Facebook's boss saves the best bit until last by noting the following: The lack of credit infrastructure [in developing countries] prevents operators from offering post-paid models that could enable them to make longer term investments in their customers. And while operators know some information about their customers, the pre-paid model prevents them from knowing who their customers are. Giving people the ability to link their Facebook or other accounts with operators could help solve these problems and make it easier to provide better service. Yes, identity-slurping – a business that admen simply love. ® :giggle: :giggle: :giggle:
Jersey #10 Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 I just can't wait for facebook to go the myspace route. It's just overly hyped social media. Thank god I never even thought about using twitter or instagram or w/e else there is out there.
Clarke Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 Whatcha laughing at detonator ? He wants to empower our poor at least "on paper".
Crookbond Posted August 22, 2013 Posted August 22, 2013 This is what it is all about. http://internet.org/
Detonator Posted August 23, 2013 Author Posted August 23, 2013 Whatcha laughing at detonator ? He wants to empower our poor at least "on paper". For using internet one has to get educated. I don't remember anyone saying "I want the WHOLE WORLD to be literate". This guy is just doing some marketing ploy.
randomGuy Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 This is what it is all about. http://internet.org/ Wait for mukesh ambani's jio 4G to launch in about 6 months. It will bring down internet cost, up speeds and internet penetration in India. Some big investments going in to launch this across india.
diga Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 Wait for mukesh ambani's jio 4G to launch in about 6 months. It will bring down internet cost' date=' up speeds and internet penetration in India. Some big investments going in to launch this across india.[/quote'] 4G LTE investment is huge .. They are also interested in fiber modems too ;-)..
Desi Cartman Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 I have started to hate him now, not because of facebook but because I have to drive past his office everyday and I can see that they get 5 mins of green light while other 3 lanes get less than 3. The cars coming out of his office are not even 5% of what other lanes have. I get stuck there for ****ing 20-30 mins everyday and its pissing me off. Here is the visual, notice the small lane coming out of facebook office
Clarke Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 I have started to hate him now, not because of facebook but because I have to drive past his office everyday and I can see that they get 5 mins of green light while other 3 lanes get less than 3. The cars coming out of his office are not even 5% of what other lanes have. I get stuck there for ****ing 20-30 mins everyday and its pissing me off. Here is the visual, notice the small lane coming out of facebook office [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN2WzQzxuoA]First World Problems - YouTube[/ame]
Clarke Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 For using internet one has to get educated. I don't remember anyone saying "I want the WHOLE WORLD to be literate". This guy is just doing some marketing ploy. He's not providing the entire solution but a part of it. We already have our so called schemes on Akash & mid day meal at school. He's keen on providing another enabler and if he makes money out of it, I'd say go ahead.
mastana Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 For using internet one has to get educated. I don't remember anyone saying "I want the WHOLE WORLD to be literate". This guy is just doing some marketing ploy. Yeah it will if it stays away from facebook. :hehe:
The Outsider Posted August 23, 2013 Posted August 23, 2013 As far as value of service provided to value of company, Facebook would have the lowest ratio.
randomGuy Posted August 24, 2013 Posted August 24, 2013 For using internet one has to get educated. I don't remember anyone saying "I want the WHOLE WORLD to be literate". This guy is just doing some marketing ploy. Kids are quite smart, all we got to do is to teach them some English. Some renovation work was going in our house a month or so back, I asked workers to bring their children if they wanted to learn about computers. The kids were in 6th and 7th class, studied in Hindi medium school where English teaching starts from 6th class and basically, they could only write their names in English and nothing else. I was surprised that they learned so much abt computer/internet in 1st hour itself, click/double click, various keys of keyboard, notepad, google search, youtube etc.
Sachin=GOD Posted August 24, 2013 Posted August 24, 2013 1 billion logon ke time ki barbaadi karkey chain nahi mila issey :mad:
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