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Re: Google: Comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy

Richard in Kunming — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:20:31 -0000

Just read that news myself. Sigh. But just as you said - no big surprises here. I can't help but wonder who has the most information on me - google, or my home government. And my gut tells me that it's google. Although my gut also quite often tells me that it is hungry - even when its not! Uh, point being that my gut is occasionally wrong.

What about this street view thing? I don't quite have it put into words yet, but I definitely have a negative feeling about it. Yeah, it's pretty cool to be able to see things that way...but...just have a bad feeling about it.

And while we're at it, I wish Skype would step it up a bit. They are quite vague about their security measures.. They are my main source of communication with the states from here in China, but I've been told by various friends that they are quite buddy-buddy with the government here.

So what's to be done?

Re: Strange AIM ‘Bots

Richard in Kunming — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:02:17 -0000

Blah. That's with a capital 'B' and expresses how I feel about spam bots. Hmm. Spam Bots. Has kind of a ring to it. Like a 'B' grade film. Or maybe it's the name of a yearly contest held in Estonia? Where people carve spam warriors that they somehow automate to battle each other? Well, regardless, I do have to compliment you on your clever use of the age 8! That is very quick thinking indeed!

Re: Strange AIM ‘Bots

Richard in Kunming — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 00:14:55 -0000

Hey, your 'Contact Me' link doesn't seem to be working....? So I am forced to resort to commenting with a non-related comment. :) Might be that bamboo firewall again, forcing me to proxy surf. Anyway, to the matter at hand: Check this out:

http://www.DailyCupOfTech.com/2007/06/19/how-ph...

I've only watched half of it so far (amazing that I can watch it at all with how my bandwidth usually is), but it is quite intriguing! What do you think? Is this something we will see in a usable form in a few years? Hard to tell just how much work it takes to put things together, and how much of it is 'behind the scenes' software doing it.... Just curious...post us an article on it!

Re: If I were versioning the web …

Richard in Kunming — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:06:19 -0000

Hear, hear! Nice idea this, bring a social aspect to the web....Or is it? Maybe, just maybe we should be somehow tearing ourselves away from the screen to spend social time face to face with people? Another issue altogether, yes. I do have to say that without the 'information superhighway' I'd be lost and out of touch with all my friends and family back in the states...

Okay, back to the focus. While I like the fact that people are experimenting, I do have to say that 97% of every "Web 2.0" service I read about seems to fit a niche of less than a thousand people - which of course reduces it's functionality to .... well, a very low level. And I fully agree that this is sillyness/madness/nonsense to use a new version marker for it all! But *sigh* I also fear we'll be seeing "Web 2.0" for a long, long time to come. Sign me on to the 'annoyed/mildly disgusted' bandwagon here.