Comments on: The flow of information http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/ A blog on entrepreneurship, user experience, and web innovation. Published by Fred Oliveira. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Paul http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-41386 Paul Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:39:45 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/#comment-41386 Interesting post. Recently at WebStock here in New Zealand, there were a couple of speakers which touched on similar topics. One main concern/issue/idea that was raised was that of privacy. It's not 'Big Brother' that will be monitoring your movements, when you opt into open services which monitor and broadcast location and activity based data, you need to be aware of the personal information you're exposing and where that information can potentially end up. With open data and API's there are few limitations you can put around your dataand where / how it can be used - heck, it isn't even really 'yours'. If you think of the threats directed at Kathy Sierra and then add in location and social data, things could get pretty scary for someone, pretty fast. I too think location-based services and non-PC (read: phone, personal-info-device) net connectivity and interaction is going to be huge, and I'm interested to watch the rise of web apps that can interact with GPS or triangulation technology on a handheld device. With that said, there may be some nasty surprises around unless we can safeguard users somehow... Caveat Emptor? Interesting post. Recently at WebStock here in New Zealand, there were a couple of speakers which touched on similar topics.

One main concern/issue/idea that was raised was that of privacy. It’s not ‘Big Brother’ that will be monitoring your movements, when you opt into open services which monitor and broadcast location and activity based data, you need to be aware of the personal information you’re exposing and where that information can potentially end up. With open data and API’s there are few limitations you can put around your dataand where / how it can be used – heck, it isn’t even really ‘yours’.

If you think of the threats directed at Kathy Sierra and then add in location and social data, things could get pretty scary for someone, pretty fast.

I too think location-based services and non-PC (read: phone, personal-info-device) net connectivity and interaction is going to be huge, and I’m interested to watch the rise of web apps that can interact with GPS or triangulation technology on a handheld device. With that said, there may be some nasty surprises around unless we can safeguard users somehow…

Caveat Emptor?

]]> By: Matthew Griffin http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-41376 Matthew Griffin Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:56:15 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/#comment-41376 I agree. It's a very exciting time to be working on the web. The idea of having our lives floating in a data cloud along with millions of others is exciting and a little scary. Can't wait to see what happens next. I agree. It’s a very exciting time to be working on the web. The idea of having our lives floating in a data cloud along with millions of others is exciting and a little scary. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

]]> By: Ted R. http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/comment-page-1/#comment-41374 Ted R. Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:27:07 +0000 http://blog.webreakstuff.com/2008/02/the-flow-of-information/#comment-41374 I want my own personal IP... I want my own personal IP…

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