They still don’t get it. But they will.
Google launched Latitude. The Financial Times comments with an article focusing on privacy. David Petherick at The Next Web is very effective at pointing out exactly what’s wrong with the mindset behind that article.
The headline? ‘Google to track mobile users‘. Big brother anxiety is what has stopped ‘mobile social networking’ success. Well sorry, privacy is dead, in the same way that newspapers are dying - and for similar reasons. For those who fail to understand why Stephen Fry should have gained a following of over 100,000 on Twitter, here is the news. Personal publicity and personal engagement lets you talk, lets you share ideas, makes you friends, and lets you influence people. Always been that way, just now the tools are different - radically so - it’s people power - always scary for the status quo.
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