at ISF in montreal we have 15,000 users. each has given us a username + password. and we're doing much more than having just a dumb pipe.
On 3/27/06, Rob Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0325-23.htm > > >From the good folks at Common Dreams here's some difficult stuff to > chew on... > > In San Francisco, Google may be "bargain[ing] away users' privacy for a > trickle of Internet connectivity," according to a speaker for the > Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). "Individuals' privacy is > worth more than a 300K download speed." Sascha also gets quoted. > > I'm not sure what to think. Users should be able to be anonymous and > pseudonymous. I don't like the idea of being distracted by marketing > everywhere I go. > > But at the same time, separate from commerce, building community ALSO > requires the user to give us some information. How does a hotspot > owner know if a user has been to his hotspot before? How can he > personalize a portal if he can't identify the user? Should a hotspot > be just a dumb pipe? I think there's far more potential in a Dodgeball > or LinkedIn type network. > > Hmmm, what is the proper, progressive, "do no evil" way to proceed? > > Rob > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
