 dzone says: Providing user accounts that may have serveral identities each with a distinct email address will become crucial. Yahoo is doing this right, although not perfect yet. They seem not to have fully understood the potential power (hidden jewel) they have had for years now. No wonder I have been getting emails from tagged.com lately, this guy explains it very well. Yes, these things are getting increasingly important. Quite a challenge how to pass sufficient knowledge about it onto the non-tech users, so that everyone can become aware of the main pitfalls (and actually just be aware of that there are pitfalls). Generally speaking, people most often want "maximum conveniency", which is the main reason why most are ignorant about even their own security and dont bother to learn about security etc. This makes such issues harder to inform about, as they are not exactly "hot topics". Sadly, this wish to oversimplify - forget about security concerns and just hope for the best, will probably lead to much more trouble in the future (for each of us) than w... Generally speaking, people most often want "maximum conveniencyGood food for thoughts you got there in your comments as a whole, but quickly on the above comment, I would like to agree and this is exactly why we have majority of lay users who are stuck in the old ways of using internet. People generally do not like to adapt new technologies hence all these web 2.0 sites are mostly infiltrated with kids and young people. The dissatisfaction shown at the time of conversion of Netscape and USAToday indicates this trend. |
View the Top Clips from March 16, 2007
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
|
||
|
|
|||
|
New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
|
|||
