On first place, and for the rest of my posts in these course, sorry for my English. I will try to write in English as better as I am able to.
I agree with Paul in the most of the explained issues in his today’s post.
The web 2.0 is a great idea, but on the other hand, I think it has many problems which should be taken in mind by the web 2.0 services’ users should take in mind, when they decide to use it.
For example. The user has the liberty to decide what contents publishing in a web, however when the user is already into this service, looses part of the control of the personal information published in these kind of web 2.0 services (bloggs, wikies, etc).
For example, in Gmail, everybody should know that a machine is tracking all the messages to show publicity related to the content of these messages.
Really, do the most of these users know this kind of things? I think, NO.
Rosa Delgado (rdelgado@mir.es)
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Surely the ordinary user is not really aware of this kind of use of their data, or maybe they just don't care.
Personally, and talking about the case of Gmail, I feel it's both useful for the advertiser and for the user. Publicity gives profit to Google, and hence it is possible to us to use their services for free. That's the same as Live Mail or Yahoo Mail. Now, what makes the difference, is that the ads shown by Gmail are somehow related to the contents of the mail, so that they can be more meaningful for the user. And since the selection is done automatically and blindly, I don't feel it like a privacy breach really.
Something beyond the usage of your data:
Look at what Microsoft tries to patent: a system that through sensors and cameras is able to detect if you (or someone from your family) is sitted at the sofa in order to advertise something that can be relevant to that person.
Link below (how can I create an hyperlink within a comment??):
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220070174117%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20070174117&RS=DN/20070174117
Rafa, about the hyperlinks in the comments, you just have to write manually the common HTML code:
<a href="http://your.link">your text</a>
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