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
google, poland, facebook, belarus, united kingdom, copyright, tower of babel
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?
google, languages, war, europe, tower of babel, internet, nick clegg
