The Circle by Linus Becker https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2 en-us 2018-11-28 11:27:31 UTC 2024-07-29 16:02:29 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Simplehouse.png THE CIRCLE beckerli3 https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308712201 - elevators of plexiglass (p.18 l. 18)
- long hallways (p. 19 l. 1)
- The Circle`s IPO raised $3 billion (p. 20 l. 8)
- founded by Tyler Alexander Gospodinov (p. 20 ll. 20-21)
- reinventing the internet: "The era of false identities, identity theft, multiple use names, complicated passwords and payment systems was over." (p. 21 ll. 19-21)
- thee-story library fashioned in wood and copper
-> company which market the "TruYou" system


]]> 2018-11-28 11:28:04 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308712201 TruYou neufeld_dominik https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308716149 - you have to use your real name
- one account
- one identity
- one password
- one payment system
- per person 
- everything tied together and trackable
(p .21, ll. 8-10) 

- "his system had overtaken the web and the world" (p. 21, l. 7)

- your account carries you through every corner of the web (p .21, l. 25)

- buying habits of people are mappable and measurable
--> marketing could be done with precision (p.22, l. 11)

prevents: 
- false identitys
- identity theft
- multiple usernames
- complicated passwords
- payment systems
(p. 21, ll. 19-21)
]]> 2018-11-28 11:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308716149 Ty Gospodinov l_remke https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308716191 -the Circle's boy-wonder visionary (p. 19. l. 14)
-full name: Tyler Alexander Gospodinov (p.19 l. 24)
- he was the first of the three wise men (p. 19 l. 24)

-OUTWARD APPEARANCE-
-was wearing nondescript glasses (p. 19 l. 15)
-had dark unkempt hair (p. 19 l. 19)
-looked no more older than twenty-five (p. 19 l. 19)


-PERSONALITY-
-socially akward, interpersonal disaster  (p. 20 ll. 3-4)
-people said Ty was bordeline Aperger's (p. 19 l. 17) 
-brilliant manager master (p. 19 l. 21-22)
-he hired Eamon Bailey and Tom Stenton
-he disappeared more and more (p. 20 l. 19)
-he became more reclusive and the aura around him grew (p.29 ll. 12-13)
-had founded the company after a year in college (p. 20 l. 23)
-his roomates used to call him Niagara because the ideas came out his head like a waterfall (p.20 ll. 24-27)
-invented TruYou (p. 21 l. 9)
-rented a ramshackle two-bedroom apartment (p.23 ll. 24-25)


]]> 2018-11-28 11:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/308716191 Tom Stenton beckerli3 https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309679342 -AGE-
- in his fifties

-OUTWARD APPEARANCE-
- dark hair
- flat, unreadable eyes 

-PERSONALITY-
- ruthless about wealthy, about being single and aggressive and dangerous
- nothing was beyond his pay grade

-CHARACTER-
- owned a NASCAR team (motorracing) and a yacht
- piloted his own plane
-> noticeable consumption
(p.23 ll. 11-24)

- had houses in New York, Dubai, Jackson Hole and an island near Martinique (p. 24 ll. 1-3)

]]> 2018-11-30 09:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309679342 Eamon Bailey neufeld_dominik https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309681016
~OUTWARD APPEARANCE~
- grey hair
- ruddy faced
- twinkly eyed 
- happy and earnest (p. 24, l. 8)
  
~PERSONALITY~
- loves to enable the curiosity of young minds (p. 18, ll. 27-28)
- likes antiques (p. 19, l. 5)
- always smiling, very funny 
- speaks lyrical and grounded 
(p. 24, l. 13)

~SOCIAL BACKGROUND~
- he was the public face of the circle (p. 24, l. 9)
- everyone called him "Uncle Eamon" (p. 24, l. 28)
- has a modest three-bedroom home, ten minutes from campus (p.23, l. 28)
- from Omaha, midclass family
- married, 4 children 
(p. 24, l. 18)
]]> 2018-11-30 09:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309681016 beckerli3 https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309684150 2018-11-30 09:22:54 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309684150 beckerli3 https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309689568 2018-11-30 09:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/beckerli3/8fs55x2jkts2/wish/309689568