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The circle [sound recording] / by Eggers, Dave. (CARDINAL)344956;
Read by Dion Graham. "The Circle is the exhilarating new novel from Dave Eggers, best-selling author of A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award. When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company's modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world--even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman's ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge"--
Subjects: Audiobooks. ; Suspense fiction. ; Internet industry ;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Getting started in Internet investing / by Katzeff, Paul,1948-(CARDINAL)655843;
Subjects: Internet industry; Investments.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Subprime attention crisis : advertising and the time bomb at the heart of the Internet / by Hwang, Tim,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-164)."An examination of online advertising, and how its imminent collapse could crash the internet"--
Subjects: Internet advertising.; Internet marketing.; Internet industry.; Internet;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Googlization of everything : (and why we should worry) / by Vaidhyanathan, Siva.(CARDINAL)269626;
MARCIVE 10/14/11Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-255) and index.Introduction: the gospel of Google -- "Render unto Caesar": how Google came to rule the web -- Google's ways and means: faith in aptitude and technology -- The Googlization of us: universal surveillance and infrastructural imperialism -- The Googlization of the world: prospects for a global public sphere -- The Googlization of knowledge: the future of books -- The Googlization of memory: information overload, filters and the fracturing of knowledge -- Conclusion: the human knowledge project.In the beginning, the World Wide Web was exciting and open to the point of anarchy, a vast and intimidating repository of unindexed confusion. Into this creative chaos came Google with its dazzling mission: "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible", and its much quoted motto, "Don't be Evil." In this book, the author examines the ways we have used and embraced Google, and the growing resistance to its expansion across the globe. He exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property and the much touted Google Book Search. He assesses Google's global impact, particularly in China, and explains the insidious effect of Googlization on the way we think. Finally, he proposes the construction of an Internet ecosystem designed to benefit the whole world and keep one brilliant and powerful company from falling into the "evil" it pledged to avoid.
Subjects: Google (Firm); Internet industry; Internet;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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In the plex : how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives / by Levy, Steven.(CARDINAL)728807;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-407) and index.The world according to Google: biography of a search engine -- Googlenomics: cracking the code on internet profits -- Don't be evil: how Google built its culture -- Google's cloud: how Google built data centers and killed the hard drive -- Outside the box: the Google phone company. and the Google t.v. company -- Guge: Google moral dilemma in China -- Google.gov: is what's good for Google, good for government or the public? -- Epilogue: chasing tail lights: trying to crack the social code.Written with the cooperation of top management at Google, a behind-the-scenes story of the world's most successful and admired technology company discusses the keys to Google's success that have allowed it to expand and take on other transformative projects.
Subjects: Google (Firm); Google.; Internet industry;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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In the plex : how Google thinks, works, and shapes our lives / by Levy, Steven,author.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-433) and index."The most interesting book ever written about Google" (The Washington Post) delivers the inside story behind the most successful and admired technology company of our time, now updated with a new Afterword. Google is arguably the most important company in the world today, with such pervasive influence that its name is a verb. The company founded by two Stanford graduate students--Larry Page and Sergey Brin--has become a tech giant known the world over. Since starting with its search engine, Google has moved into mobile phones, computer operating systems, power utilities, self-driving cars, all while remaining the most powerful company in the advertising business. Granted unprecedented access to the company, Levy disclosed that the key to Google's success in all these businesses lay in its engineering mindset and adoption of certain internet values such as speed, openness, experimentation, and risk-taking. Levy discloses details behind Google's relationship with China, including how Brin disagreed with his colleagues on the China strategy--and why its social networking initiative failed; the first time Google tried chasing a successful competitor. He examines Google's rocky relationship with government regulators, particularly in the EU, and how it has responded when employees left the company for smaller, nimbler start-ups. In the Plex is the "most authoritative--and in many ways the most entertaining" (James Gleick, The New York Book Review) account of Google to date and offers "an instructive primer on how the minds behind the world's most influential internet company function" (Richard Waters, The Wall Street Journal).
Subjects: Google (Firm); Google.; Internet industry;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The information trade : how big tech conquers countries, challenges our rights, and transforms our world / by Wichowski, Alexis,author.(CARDINAL)823540;
Includes bibliographical references."In this eye-opening, must-read book, a political insider and tech expert explains what's at stake for our tech-enabled lives-and what we can do about it. Neither an industry apologist nor irrational fearmonger, Alexis Wichowski considers the unchecked rise of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla-what she calls "net states"-and their growing and unavoidable influence in our lives. Combining original reporting, extensive research, and interviews with technology and government insiders, including Microsoft president Brad Smith, Google CEO Eric Schmidt, and the world's first ambassador to Silicon Valley, Alexis Wichowski explores what happens when we cede our power to tech giants, willingly trading our personal freedom and individual autonomy for an easy, plugged-in existence. Written for the tech-savvy and tech-phobic alike, The Information Trade lays out how net states are conquering countries, challenging our rights, and transforming our future. Most importantly, it shows what we can do to control our relationship with net states before they irreversibly alter how we are governed, how we think, how we act, and how we live"--Introduction -- Rise of the citizen-user -- Net states IRL -- Privacy allies and adversaries -- Information-age warfighters -- A great wall of watchers -- The all-knowing Internet of things -- The mind, immersed -- A declaration of citizen-user rights -- The net state pattern.
Subjects: Information services industry; Internet industry; Freedom of information;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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The internet con : how to seize the means of computation / by Doctorow, Cory,author.(CARDINAL)663116;
Includes bibliographical references and index.How big tech got big -- Network effects vs. switching costs -- Copyright wars, cybercrime, terrorism, human trafficking and other gifts to big tech -- Interop : from computer science to the real world -- Standards and mandates : what's behind the shield of boringness? -- Adversarial interop : guerrilla warfare and reverse engineering -- Jam tomorrow : life after we seize the means of computation -- Jam today : how we'll get there -- What about privacy? -- What about harassment? -- What about algorithmic radicalization? -- What about child sexual abuse material, nonconsensual pornography and terrorist materials? -- What about warranties? -- What about poor countries? -- What about blockchain?"This is a call to arms about how to bring the big online platforms to their knees. It concerns the question of interoperability: the way that Facebook, Twitter etc make it very difficult for you to move and own your data. Doctorow shows that this is not a problem of technology but of law, business and apathy in face of growing monopolies. He covers ground such as anti-trust, and how the platforms deal with take down orders. Through this he shows how the FANGS became too powerful - and show us what we can do about it!"--
Subjects: Internet industry.; Internetworking (Telecommunication); Internet; Information society.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Selfie made : your ultimate guide to social media stardom / by Rojas, Meridith,author.(CARDINAL)804601;
"With just an idea and wi-fi, Meridith Valiando Rojas started her wildly successful company, DigiTour. Now she is sharing her stories, tip and tricks, and more in Selfie Made: YourUltimate Guide to Social Media Stardom. Whether you want to be a social star or online entrepreneur, Meridith has you covered! As one of the first companies in the social media ecosystem Meridith and her company DigiTour Media have worked with over 500 social stars from nearly every platform, seeing first hand how people go viral, grow an audience, and leverage the popularity of the internet to build their brand in front of, or behind the camera. Sharing her personal and zany stories while providing real-world (never shared) advice, Meridith gives a peek behind the curtain of DigiTour and what it's been like working with every major star from YouTube to Musical.ly. With some of her biggest social friends weighing in with advice, Q&A's, sample schedules, and their secret tips and tricks -- if you want to launch your online career, this book is for you!"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Internet industry.; Social media.; Internet personalities.; New business enterprises.; Social media.;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 6
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The circle [large print] by Eggers, Dave.(CARDINAL)344956;
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Large print books.; Satirical literature.; Internet industry; Memory; Privacy; Social media; Social media.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 10
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