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PANORAMA google : Germans ban ‘I Like’ facebook button, Spanish want to ‘Dislike’

Germans ban ‘I Like’ facebook button, Spanish want to ‘Dislike’

The north German state Schleswig Holstein has announced that it is banning facebook’s famous ‘I like’ button, with websites which haven’t removed it before the end of September facing fines of up to 50, 000 euros (44,000 pounds). Whilst Germany and the UK have raised more general concerns, the Spanish were there first

by Annie Rutherford @ // 25/08/11

google, poland, facebook, belarus, united kingdom, copyright, tower of babel

PANORAMA google : Google Books Ngram Viewer: scan ‘Europe’, ‘crisis’ and ‘unemployment’

Google Books Ngram Viewer: scan ‘Europe’, ‘crisis’ and ‘unemployment’

The new online search tool can trace the history of each of the 500 billion words words in google’s 5.2 million scanned books, dating back 500 years. As Europe’s medias select their words of the year, is it time to take a step back from the terms which defined 2010?

by Emmanuel Haddad @ // 24/01/11

google, languages, war, europe, tower of babel, internet, nick clegg

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The spirit of our times..

A short sentence can really encapsulate the spirit of the times? So it seems judging from the statement made by the Director of Google, Eric Schmidt, who in the international technology exhibition in Berlin announced that the Google is going to launch a television platform. The platform will broadcast over ...

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