December 2009
8 posts
Where's my receipt?
Jonathan Rosenberg from Google said in the quote I mentioned the other day, “the new form of commerce is the exchange of personal information for something of value”. I guess my only question coming out of reading that quote is, “where’s my receipt”. Jonathan says we all engage in this transaction every day, and I can’t seem to find anywhere that documents what...
Dec 23rd
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“On the Web, the new form of commerce is the exchange of personal information for...”
– News.com article, citing the official Google blog.
Dec 22nd
In Other News: Google buying DocVerse →
Google is set to acquire DocVerse for $25M. DocVerse makes a plug-in capable of helping Microsoft Office users collaborate online (realistically, making it a dirt-cheap competitor to Microsoft’s overly complicated Groove offering). It’s not hard to see how Google will use this functionality. By making it freely available to Microsoft Office users, Google can slowly get them used to...
Dec 20th
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In Other News: Google rumored to be buying Yelp... →
Concerning news - Google may be looking into buying Yelp (consumer reviews of restaurants, bars and more) and Trulia (real-estate listings). I believe both of these moves would give Google questionable insight into the leisure time of consumers and their real-estate needs.
Dec 19th
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Privacy, for sale or rent
How protective of your privacy are you when you use the Internet? Let me rephrase that. How protective of your privacy do you think you are when you use the Internet? 20 years ago, when you went into a “big box retailer”, you knew they had security cameras; but none of us contemplated the retailer watching literally everything we did in the store. Times have changed. Today,...
Dec 19th
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“Happily, the Web is so huge that there’s no way any one company can...”
– Weaving the Web (Amazon)
Dec 17th
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Do you want privacy anymore?
Go ahead - answer the question - I’ll wait. Eric Schmidt’s quote that I posted earlier couldn’t come at a more appropriate time. I’ve been spending a lot of time lately thinking about privacy as it relates to the world’s largest search engine*. *and purveyor of countless other non-search related technologies, many of them free. I talked with several friends today...
Dec 17th
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“If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you...”
– Eric Schmidt interview cited on Gawker
Dec 17th