Posts Tagged with ‘online-privacy’

Odds are if you are reading this blog, you are already using at least one, and probably many more, Web 2.0 apps. But I've seen several things over the past week that make me question how well people can stay "off the grid," maintaining even a partial online anonymity.
I've stated before that I'm a fairly private person. Until I started writing for blogs professionally, I kept my identity online behind a handle. When registering for sites that I test for [...]

I've been following the barrage of news regarding Data Portability with a mix of excitement and trepidation. I've been a proponent of OpenID, and regularly use services like PassPack to keep track of the ridiculous number of log-ins I seem to have accumulated. At the same time, I worry about what data is essentially mine, and what doesn't rightfully belong to me. I'm still not convinced that Robert Scoble owned the contact information for his 5000 “friends” on Facebook, [...]

Personally I find it rather peculiar that Le Web 3 sessions started with the discussion of the "Dark Side of the Web". It looks like recently we have heard of so many issues related to all the bad things that internet communications can result in - thus the choice of the very first topic, I think. Anyway it was an interesting discussion and I thought that it would be a good idea to share some of the aspects discussed with [...]

Within the past two years, Web 2.0 has gone completely mainstream. Much as the World Wide Web was once the near-exclusive playground for college students and early adopters, everything from social networking to Ajax apps are familiar to just about everyone online.
With no signs of slowing down, however, each and every user-driven site, from Web 1.0 online shopping to nifty 2.0 apps like Geni, collects data on its users. Amazon has your credit card information, your purchase history, and your [...]

A little over a month ago we published an article about Ubiplanet, a really innovative social network, something we have been waiting for quite a while now - a place to feel comfortable and communicate with the same level of trust as when talking to your real-world friends offline. The project was only launched in late January and it was very interesting for me to have a chat with Ubiplanet CEO Francois Barraud and discuss the results of this first [...]