An Interactive Designer in CDMX

Geek Mexican, Italianish, #foreveralone, Chetumalian, Development Director @ Kokonut Studio

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Net Neutrality 2016 - Post 02

The bill was passed by the House on April 2015 under the idea that government shouldn’t intervene on business calls (that I agree too), but when this lack of regulation will affect a neutral field where every blog, person, idea or information have the same opportunity of being acceded as the mainstream sites or big corporations sites, regulation is what maintains equality and justice over raw capitalist decisions. 

It is now on the road to Senate. I hope they are more sensate

Find out more at http://idcdmx.tumblr.com/post/142834696952/net-neutrality-2016-post-01

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Facebook F8

I just saw the keynotes and they were amazing. I’m involve again after our hard breakup involving Parse.

Facebook is not a company of goods and services as anyone can imagine. People at Facebook are makers of the world they imagine. They have a clear goal of how society should live in the future and they are building the road for us to achieve it.

This is a brief list:

Messenger bot For now, it will be used as a new sales point, support channel and entertainment, but the goal (I guess) is to become the real life J.A.R.V.I.S. Facebook is now on direct competition with the AI bots of Microsoft, Google and Apple. The advantage is that Facebook is expert on improving their products faster and cheaper than any other company by making them crowd-tested. Remember when we used to tag people on photos? Few years later the Facebook AI learned the patrons and now Facebook nows who’s in that picture without you telling it.

Live API I like what they did. They launched an MVP just for influencers to test results and now it is open for everyone. Now you might post a live video to your FB using any app that has the SDK. I believe there will be a join path with Oculus and 360 Video soon.

Augmented Traffic Control This is for us, to test network conditions so we prepare our apps for uncertain networks events

Telecom Infra Project Facebook is crossing the line. Why offering only online products if they can build the basis of Internet, right? They are every time closer to Google on the Internet domain

Free Basics A nobel work of building online bridges in communities to avoid being excluded from the models that Internet brings to consumer societies

AR Wow! Didn’t see coming that! They improved the telepresence thousands years from now. Applications are wide: academic, education, health, therapy, communications, entertainment.

360 Video Camera They are making the world. If something doesn’t fit yet to their ideas, they invent it.

Opensource This is how must be in order the innovation to happen. Business can monetize with other things, FB is a great example of that.

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Net Neutrality 2016 - Post 01

USA decisions about Net Neutrality will bring a domino effect around the globe.

In 2014 and 2015  a battle was fought and our Net Neutrality right won against ISPs that wanted to take control over internet access. This year a new battle begins.

On March 30, 2016 a step forward was taken in the House of Representatives (USA) that might end in a bill called “H.R.2666 - No Rate Regulation of Broadband Internet Access Act”. It’s headline is “to prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the rates charged for broadband Internet access service”.

What does it means for us?

By deleting regulations in rates charged by telecom companies, they might privilege access to certain websites and punish access to others depending on how much they or you pay for it.

What? Give me examples:

1. Websites that don’t paid for telecom fast tracks will be acceded in slower speeds that those that pays a fee. So, certain kind of websites will be prioritized. Plurality and diversity of information will be punished. Users won’t browse on slow tracks. We just don’t.

2. Telecoms will create Internet packages that will allow you to browse in pre-selected websites. Browsing other sites will cost you more, so you’ll think twice before doing it. Diversity of information and plural opinions (all important for a democracy)  will be hard to find (or to access). The majority of Internet users will enter only to the telecom pre-selected websites. Our consumer habits and our information and entertainment sources will be more homologated than today’s.

Imagine what might happen in a country where people stand up for their rights. Now imagine it in Mexico, where as a society we let companies to abuse in pricing and policies, where we don’t fight for our rights as consumers nor as citizens of a democracy. 

You can find more information about the bill in: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2666/all-actions

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Get more information about Net Neutrality and why it is important to preserve:

https://www.battleforthenet.com/

fightforthefuture.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality

http://www.savetheinternet.com/net-neutrality-what-you-need-know-now

https://www.whitehouse.gov/net-neutrality

https://www.aclu.org/feature/what-net-neutrality