Happy Zuckerversary! Facebook officially turned 15-years-old on Monday, and its founder has blessed us with yet another blog post explaining how he sees his own creation in its terrible teens. After all this time, Mark Zuckerberg still either can’t or won’t accept that he runs a platform, not the internet.
The Like and Dislike buttons on YouTube allow viewers to provide feedback to creators about the videos they upload. More often than not, “dislike mobs” get together to target a video by disliking it en masse without even watching. This is something that obviously irks creators and YouTube has been discussing its options to prevent it.
Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted on the Creator Insider channel about some “lightly discussed” options for preventing dislike mobs from disliking a video unfairly. It remains to be seen if any of the options mentioned will ever become a permanent fixture but YouTube may test them out.
YouTube currently shows the number of likes and dislikes on a video by default. Creators can make these ratings invisible but one of the options being considered by YouTube involves making these numbers invisible by default.
Another option is asking for more feedback from the user that dislikes a video, perhaps giving them a checklist of reasons. More radical options that have been discussed include removing the dislike count altogether or just getting rid of the dislike button completely.
Leung has invited users to share their own suggestions on how YouTube can tackle this going forward. It may test some of the options mentioned above but it’s too soon to say if any of them will stick around.
YouTube Discussing Options To Prevent ‘Dislike’ Button Abuse
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Batteries are an integral part of Tesla’s business and the company is always looking to further improve in this regard. To that end, the company today confirmed its acquisition of battery technology company Maxwell. This San Diego-based company has been acquired by Tesla for $4.75 per share, valuing the deal at $218 million.
Maxwell Technologies says that it already has board approval for the deal and that the acquisition should be closed either in or shortly after the second quarter of this year.
Tesla hasn’t really detailed why it chose to acquire Maxwell, only saying that “We are always looking for potential acquisitions that make sense for the business and support Tesla’s mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy.”
One can bet that Tesla bought this company for its energy storage and power delivery technology, something it has been doing since Maxwell was founded in 1965. That technology might enable Tesla to produce batteries that can not only hold more energy but also last longer, thus enabling Tesla’s cars to travel further distances on a single charge.
Maxwell announced in January that it had developed and patented a “dry electrode” technology which could significantly improve the driving range as well as reduce the cost of batteries for electric vehicles. Maxwell said that it expected alliances built around this technology “within six months.”
Tesla Acquires Battery Tech Company Maxwell
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“We’re going as fast as we freaking can,” says the “Catcher in the Rye” author’s son Matt Salinger.
Fellow Democrat Jim Moran suggested the blackface scandal had turned into a “frenzy.”
“This would be a huge step forward,” the “Late Show” says of one possible reading of the Ralph Northam yearbook photo.
David Dunlap worked for chemical giant Koch Industries for more than eight years.
Wanna keep the champagne flowing at your party, but want to up the fun factor? Check out the Bubbly Blaster. It’s a metal spray head attachment made for champagne bottles that turns them into squirt guns. Oh yeah. This is going to be a good time. Once the party is over you’ll have the added benefit of a costly renovation thanks to all of the damage caused by sticky champagne all over everything, so maybe move the party outside before you bust out this blaster.
This gadget attaches to your bottle and it can shoot as far as 30-feet. It also doubles as a stopper. It will cost you $100, or you could just hold your thumb over the bottle like a normal person who doesn’t like to throw money away. That’s up to you. Actually, I would suggest a Super Soaker if you really must waste your champagne.
This is just further proof that rich people don’t have enough things to occupy their time. When you have nothing better to do than shoot champagne at each other… Well, actually that’s a pretty good life. You know, you guys could always load up a cannon and shoot some expensive stuff our way. Just an idea. Maybe some gold.
[via This Is Why I’m Broke via The Awesomer]
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