Jaiku Bought By Google, Some Fear Privacy Issues 85
Platonic writes "According to the New York Times, Google's recent purchase of Jaiku, a little-known micro-blog service (think Twitter) might raise privacy concerns due to the automated nature of the web site's services. From the article: "The deal, announced this month, has much of the tech-tracking blogosphere abuzz. Some claim it is the harbinger of a new, truly interconnected world, where a chunk of our existence will migrate online ... Chris Messina, an open-source entrepreneur and founder of the consulting firm Citizen Agency, takes it a step further. In a blog post after the Jaiku deal was announced, he said that he envisioned a world where all information had migrated online, where the address book "lives in Googleland,"'"
Chris Messina Rebuttal To NY Times (Score:4, Informative)
Here is Chris Messina's blog entry [factoryjoe.com] on his inclusion in the NY Times piece.
In a nutshell, he doesn't like the NY Times' headline.