Can Data Control Provide Ease of Mind?
More app providers and websites are providing control mechanisms in a bid to get more people to use their sites. The question is will it work?
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Does Google Deserve More Credit?
Sometimes I think Google deserves more credit.
This is not a defense of Google+, anti-trust issues facing the company, or the apparent sunsetting of Feedburner. Rather, more admiration for the company’s overall approach and success online in recent years.
When I learned Google had scrapped its facial recognition technology because the negative uses outweighed the good, I felt they were the better player of the big companies operating in this space. It’s not an isolated incident.
Google changed its privacy earlier this year, uniting its many disparate policies across different products into one holistic company-wide statement. The company waged an extensive public relations and advertising effort to explain the new policy to the general public.
When was the last time Facebook did that? Never, to my knowledge. You just log in and find everything switched without any communication whatsoever.
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2012 Trend Spotting: Grieving Blackberry
Image by CNN By all accounts, 2012 will be the year that Blackberry’s decline dramatically increases. Most analysts and even parent company Research In Motion’s SEC filings see Blackberry dropping out of the top tier of smartphones, surrendering the market… Read More »2012 Trend Spotting: Grieving Blackberry
Why the Facebook Feature Frenzy Will Fail
Last week Mark Zuckerberg revealed video chat (see above video), the first of many new features in what will be called, “Launching Season 2011.” Yet, this announcement (conveniently timed one week after Google+ launched) only seems to add to the… Read More »Why the Facebook Feature Frenzy Will Fail
Kick Your Competitor’s Ass
Yes, you did read the headline correctly. One of the most annoying flavors of kumbaya in social media circles remains the idea that we should all get along. These voices leave no room for public competition. Meanwhile most of the… Read More »Kick Your Competitor’s Ass