“If you are not paying for it, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”
posted on Metafilter’s “User-driven discontent” thread by blue_beetle at 1…
When will Skype’s Users Stop Being Skype’s Customers?
6 July 2011 by
The continuing story of Privacy Mirror
21 January 2011 by
For those of you interested in my ongoing tinkering with Facebook to explore how apps gain access to data, I have added a few more observations here. The short version is that although Facebook’s extended permissions to help inform users of how apps …
We are the disrobots
21 October 2010 by
Our technology and our society have reached a point where our privacy can be automatically impinged. We have fully automated disrobing ourselves. We have created the disrobot – a machine or process which automates the stripping away of the veil of pr…
Social Dynamics: Why Facebook and Skype don’t belong together
18 October 2010 by
Skype and Facebook shared their first steps at integration. I suggested many opportunities for feature and business synergy.
However…
You have two networks that really don’t belong together. Facebook is sexy chocolate and Skype is nutritional soup…