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Your Privacy Is Your Illusion: Free calls never cost so much
September 24th, 2007 at 4:59 pmSource:Valleywag
Sometimes you really need to thank the Internet gods. Last week two guys broke into Vancouver’s WorkSpace, an office collective, and stole four laptops and two iMacs. The culprits couldn’t be identified by security footage. Luckily, as founder Bill McEwan noticed, they did most of the work for him. The new owner of his laptop apparently uploaded a picture of himself to the company’s Flickr photostream. Now there’s a Web-wide manhunt attempting to identify the tattooed man.
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Who’s the mysterious force behind “My World,” Google’s rumored foray into virtual worlds? Signs point to Google engineering manager Niniane Wang who’s currently leading a “confidential project,” which was thought to be a virtual world back in January. According to her resume, the project relies on C++ and Java — both languages are used in serious game development. Prior to her move to California in 2003, she was a lead design engineer at Microsoft Games working on Flight Simulator 2004 and racing games. Sounds like the perfect background for a fly-through metaverse.
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There’s a new Skype competitor, dubbed ThePudding, on the Web. And ThePudding is completely free*. All you have to do is agree to let Pudding Media listen in on your calls. To compensate users for the breach of privacy, the company claims, “ThePudding uses breakthrough technology that makes your conversations fun and interesting.” In other words, anyone using ThePudding will be served contextual ads based upon topics overheard in your conversation! It’s like Google’s Gmail, but for talking. Remember when we were freaked out by the idea of Google scanning our email to pick out relevant ads? And how we all got over it?
That’s what Pudding Media CEO Ariel Maislos would have you believe, anyway. He explains, “The trade-off of getting personalized content versus privacy is a concept that is accepted in the world.” Besides the firm is targeting youths, who judging from their MySpace and Facebook habits, aren’t concerned with privacy. In other words, targeting the young and the weak. In an even greater affront to good taste, the company is also looking into ways to serve ads, via email or cellphone, to the unconsenting call recipient — not just ThePudding users. Like every good entrepreneur, Maislos is testing the frontiers of business ideas. But given the sensitivity of phone calls, he may have just crossed a line.
