What kind of openness you want? |
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at 05/19/2008 05:55 PM
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 Something has to be said about the flurry of blog posts coming out with words like "revolution", "data portability", "freedom" , "It's your data" and "open" etc. Suddenly I started seeing parallel to this in something I read long time back. What was that? Animal Farm? Or was it 1984? Or maybe Brave New World? In any case the story of Utopian quest is just that: been-there-done-that. Two legged still an enemy. I really respect Umair's strategic insights on digital media and related topics but on his recent post he got me confused. I am hearing lot about openness but nobody is defining the real nature of openness we are debating. What kind of openness really matters? We are dealing with three kinds of openness - Openness of intent (which is what search history is all about - Google is a natural monopoly). Nobody is demanding openness for that yet, since the value of that data is not widely appreciated. Just wait for few more years. As search gets increasingly perform...Read the complete blog post here |
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