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[z31maniac]

anyone remember the R3V "wave"?

I predict that this will not take off, I think fB has taken to strong of a hold of the sheeple.

Like when FB wouldn't matter because everyone was on MySpace? Look where MySpace is, NewsCorp just took a BATH on that purchase. Lost something like 90%+ of its value in the last 6 years.

[Wiglaf]

wave had some cool stuff.. the live document collaboration was freaking awesome. Most people seem to just use it to blog though.. in that I agree it's a bit of a waste. Google certainly learned some hard lessons from that one.

[nando]

I can see it taking off if they can beat facebook on privacy. I'm willing to bet there will be a massive security breach at facebook in the future, if there hasn't been one already.. the potential is just too big for the hackers to ignore.

seriously though, people find google creepy, but not facebook, which basically says in clear words that they own all your information?

[mrsleeve]

You tin foil hat fuckers are funny. Be shocked, virtually every website you have ever visited has placed a cookie on your HD. And they certainly can be used to track you, provided someone has enough data to determine who cookie XX237465g3934Ey34GG57 actually is.

Been several legal cases based, and won on a subpoena of Googles search queries, the all encompassing nature that is google really is kinda creepy

[nando]

AFAIK they can tell what people were searching for, but not who was searching for what.

[mrsleeve]

AFAIK they can tell what people were searching for, but not who was searching for what.

IP addy is logged with every single search query. Right they cant tell who is using your computer, but they can tell which computer is searching for what and when.

That and the whole android line, sending GPS data "home" every few mins, along with all the photos taken with a smart phone tag the info for the pic with GPS data as well, did ratchet up the creepyness factor quite a bit, dont you think ??

[nando]

you have to opt into the GPS "home" feature, so unless you turned it on it doesn't track anything. and it's actually quite useful.

I'm pretty sure they don't log IP addresses with the searches, but it doesn't matter that much, in court they haven't really allowed an IP address to be used as indentification of a person.

[Kruzen]

I'm in. It's nice

[Wiglaf]

eh, virtually all of the smartphones are guilty of the creepy GPS data tracking. There was a big stink about Apple doing this a few months ago.

Facebook has been quite terrible as of late about the whole privacy matter though.. I don't doubt for a second that they wouldn't sell off everything they know about you (if they haven't already). That and the embarrassing app exploits that are running rampant all over the site.

[agent]

http://www.pcworld.com/article/235033/google_13_questions_to_ponder.html

[europeanplates]

I am using this and have added the feature to our site as well. I think it will take off.

Tyler

[87e30]

Facebook is far sketchier than google in my book. They are already known to be selling information and they even planted a fake story regarding google to make themselves look better.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2011-05-12/facebook-hires-burson-marsteller-to-pitch-story-on-google.html

Any online company is going to store your info, choose the one that offers you the most and has a good company culture (google).

[Vince30]

I'm in. It's nice

Can you send me an invite? I would like to try it.

[Farbin Kaiber]

Yeah, I'm enjoying it so far, but I'm having trouble finding people.

[slammin.e28]

I'm. Inviting friends. So far two are on (one invited me, one found me), and the rest "can't figure it out."

That's what I get for living where I do....

I like it.