Tag Archives: privacy
Gmail Man vs MS Office 365 vs You
Microsoft released a series of videos featuring Gmailman, a nosy mailman that reads your email in order to send you advertising. It would be funny, if it was a video done by EFF or FreedomBox promoting privacy enhanced alternatives. Instead, … Continue reading
A possible explanation of why Google Health failed
Interesting thoughts on the rise and death of Google Health. I’m not sure I agree with all of it, definitely it’s worth spending some time thinking about why the product failed. Simply put, Google Health was never a true Web … Continue reading
Why Google+ is going to be hard to beat
A lot of my friends are still saying that Facebook cannot be beaten by Google+ because people don’t change habits, because Google+ doesn’t have this or that… While I acknowledge all these fine points, I believe that unless Google+ makes … Continue reading
Leveraging the address book as your social network
Think about it: your list of friends, family, colleagues and casual acquaintances is not on Facebook or Linkedin. It’s in your pocket, in your phone’s address book and your email address book. If you’re smart you keep them in sync, … Continue reading
The good news is Google+ and there is the bad news too
Google seems to have done it right this time: Google+ looks like a credible implementation of a social strategy. Whatever that means, of course. Compared to the other half baked recent initiatives like Buzz or Wave, Google+ seems to have … Continue reading
The cloud of spies
Microsoft is not hiding the sad and cruel truth: you’re not safe from being spied when you put your data in the cloud. Any data which is housed, stored or processed by a company, which is a U.S. based company … Continue reading
Apple forces bad user experience on Funambol
I installed Funambol on an iOS device to test it and all went well… until I tried to sync the pictures. I was greeted with the request to allow Funambol to access my location, request that I promptly denied. Why … Continue reading
“Bump” and your data go to the cloud
When investigating the design of the FreedomBox app to exchange keys and establish trust between two people I looked at how the Bump App for iPhone and Android solves the issue. From their FAQ: Q: How does Bump work? A: … Continue reading
First code project for FreedomBox: the ‘bump’ challenge
Exchanging public keys and signing them is still a complicated matter for normal users. As part of the development of FreedomBox we are thinking of a simple way to establish trust and enable two people talk to each other through … Continue reading
East and West coast so far apart: Moglen vs Jobs
June 6th 2011 was a strange day. Facing the Pacific ocean Steve Jobs was describing his perfect plan to know which books you read, what magazines you buy, what music you listen, who you correspond with, who you love and … Continue reading
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