The RP’s Weekly Web Gems: The Politics of Tech

The Politics of Tech

Google+ has now been in Beta for two weeks and has hit the 10 million user mark. Of course, if you choose to compare that number to Facebook’s 750 million, it doesn’t seem like much. The point is that growth so far has been extremely promising. We will be discussing the developments much more in the coming weeks and it is going to be very interesting to see how things progress. [The Atlantic]

A little Google+ humor based on limited access to the Beta. [comic]

Movie rental giant Netflix recently announced pricing changes. They have made their DVD rental service and streaming service mutually exclusive at $7.99 each and $15.98 for both. This comes only 7 months after the most recent price increase last November. At lot of customers are not happy, but it looks like many investors are. The question going forward is whether this will hurt Netflix’s ability to dominate the market like they have in recent years [Huffington Post]

A new poll indicates that 1/3 of iPhone owners are under the impression that they currently have access to 4G networks. This is, of course, wrong. Current generation iPhones doe not have LTE technology, nor is it being planned for the iPhone due out this Fall. [retrevo]

This 360 panorama of the last space shuttle’s flight deck is truly amazing. [The Last Shuttle]