Google is offering to store all of our photos, forever, without charging money for it. So what’s in it for the company? The short answer: data. Lots of it. The long answer: A new part of business that could have as much impact for Google as Gmail did 10 years ago. Key quote: «There’s no doubt Google Photos is a massive landgrab for personal data — at a time when visual imagery is the biggest social currency of the web.»

Guest curated by Jessica Binsch. From Weekly Filet #211, in June 2015.