http://www.evansink.com/2009/04/googles-new-self-control/ musings on local media, and other random acts of two cent journalism. Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:20:39 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.evansink.com/2009/04/googles-new-self-control/comment-page-1/#comment-8592 Nico Brooks Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:29:12 +0000 http://www.evansink.com/?p=378#comment-8592 I share your skepticism about Joe's comment. I joined Atlas shortly after the settlement the lawsuit against Doubleclick regarding misuse of PII. The industry was still reeling from the implications of that suit, for good reason. Getting users to voluntarily give their personal data to Google is hugely strategic. While we should be thinking about what Google will do with that data today, we should also be thinking about what they will do 5 or 10 years hence when they are struggling to hit a quarterly revenue target. I share your skepticism about Joe’s comment. I joined Atlas shortly after the settlement the lawsuit against Doubleclick regarding misuse of PII. The industry was still reeling from the implications of that suit, for good reason. Getting users to voluntarily give their personal data to Google is hugely strategic. While we should be thinking about what Google will do with that data today, we should also be thinking about what they will do 5 or 10 years hence when they are struggling to hit a quarterly revenue target.

]]> http://www.evansink.com/2009/04/googles-new-self-control/comment-page-1/#comment-8581 Sebastien Provencher Thu, 23 Apr 2009 12:28:44 +0000 http://www.evansink.com/?p=378#comment-8581 Haven't had time to blog about it but it is yet another "identity" play like Facebook Connect, Twitter Connect, MySpace ID, etc. Google will attach Gmail info with this to create identity + social graph. This is getting very close to "White Pages" territory, yet another directory industry opportunity getting captured by online players. Haven’t had time to blog about it but it is yet another “identity” play like Facebook Connect, Twitter Connect, MySpace ID, etc. Google will attach Gmail info with this to create identity + social graph. This is getting very close to “White Pages” territory, yet another directory industry opportunity getting captured by online players.

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