I read this article today, and to say the least, I reacted. Privacy is a term used far too loosely, and I think people might not really know what they are defining. Whatever privacy is to you, you need to consider how privacy exists in the real world.
A ghostly voice:
Consumer privacy issues are a “red herring.” — “‘You have zero privacy anyway,’ Scott McNealy told a group of reporters and analysts Monday night at an event to launch his company’s new Jini technology. Get over it.’”
That was in 1999.
Subsquently…. resultingly….. These privacy conversations kill me. If one wishes for privacy, one shouldn’t leave the house, nor ever go online.
It is completely within the best interests of a hotel to protect a guest’s privacy… we go to significant lengths to do so. To suggest otherwise is misinformed and ignorant. It is the hallmark of our success, among other things.
This issue isn’t about a hotel’s sensitivity to privacy. The issue is our current preoccupation with the concept of privacy. No one has any idea what “privacy” means. We have relative freedom, and our lives are relatively unobstructed and we are able to do as we please. But leaving the house – you are subjected to the largest shift in communication history, coupled with modern technological achievements that have, together, completely negated the concept of privacy. It doesn’t exist anymore. In fact… younger generations shed it as a by-product of the lifestyle they seek… a reminder that, shortly, it simply isn’t going to be an issue for people that will be controlling the world soon. How can we really expect any privacy, anyway?
It’s a fun conversation about a word few people really understand…. but whether or not we need to be sensitive (hotels, in fact, are sensitive) is moot. The point is that privacy is ending, and to some extent we are willfully giving it up as a biproduct of being able to access these amazing tools of the internet age.
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Tags: apps, beverage, F&B, food, hospitality, hotels, permissions, privacy, privacy and hotels, semantic web, web 2.0
A snapshot of now.
Hello friends, travel and hospitality people.. I have abandoned you for too long! Well, my mind has been racing, and I am trying to put all these pieces together… how will it all fit? How will interaction by the brand influence, connect, or impact the future of the social graph legitimizing and strengthening search? *That’s* not even the important question – The real question will be how will a search built off network science control and influence brands? Will there, finally, be a thwarting of the spam through human powered relevance ranking? Will poor management styles, lack of interaction, or opaque manipulation of the consumer made to be transparent in regards to the brand? These are small beans compared to the impact of wikileaks on the future of human government. If you want to catch up on the *REALLY* important stuff, listen to this NPR Fresh Air episode with Bill Keller, from the NY Times, on the impact of Assange and Wikileaks. But back to our silly little vertical.
Google search is inundated by spam – even their CEO Eric Schmidt admitted that “The Internet is a Cesspool“, and at the time 2 1/2 years ago, he insisted it would be brands that sorted out those murky waters. I think that’s part of it, such as a brand interacting with the social graph, while publishing meanginful content to an interested audience that actively supports or bolsters the brand’s online relevance and presence. But where Schmidt agreed the future of meaningful editorialism or content was in question, I think it’s the tapping into of the social graph that will sort all this out. People will always try to game search, but the amalgam of a human powered network will wield sorting relevance like a skilled warrior, making antiquated algorithms look clumsy and slow.
The spam problem for Google is multi-layered. (more…)
Tags: algorithm, assange, bill keller, ehow, facebook, google, huffington post, matt cutts, ny times, privacy, search, semantic web, seo, social graph, social search, spam, twitter, wiki, wikileaks
So…
This is a fairly funny, interesting article about the complexity of social ads, and how they can exploit any of your proprietary data for their own ends…. in that you agree it isn’t proprietary anymore by uploading it to the site. IE: Complain all you want, but if you are on a social media site, they own you. Some try to be (more…)
Tags: ad model, advertising, facebook, online ads, online advertising, ppc, privacy, social ads, Social Media, social media advertising, web 2.0