Chris Sacca on the implied user contract

Chris Sacca nicely summarized today’s FB vs Google vs Twitter controversy:

It comes down to what each company has promised its users. Facebook promised its users their stuff would be private, which is why users rightfully get pissed when that line blurs. Twitter has promised users, well, that it will stay up, and that is why users rightfully get pissed when the whale is back.

Google has promised its users and the entire tech community, again and again, that it would put their interests first, and that is why Google users, rightfully get pissed when their results are deprecated to try to promote a lesser Google product instead.

It’s all about expectations.

http://evan.status.net/ Evan Prodromou

Google, a publicly traded corporation, promised the rest of the tech industry that it would put their interests ahead of its own?

I wonder if Chris Sacca would invest in a company that made that kind of promise to other players in the industry.
http://technbiz.blogspot.com paramendra

Twitter Should Open Up Its API —- To Google http://bit.ly/zLxkkx
http://blog.bradnoble.com/ bradnoble

I agree it’s all about expectations. Social search hasn’t really coalesced yet, and so our expectations of it are somewhat unformed… aided in part by dominant players confusing the issue by forcing paradigms together. I try to make sense of 3 of the paradigms—web search, social search and social listening—here: http://blog.bradnoble.com/2012/01/13/google-search-social-search-social-listening/
http://binaryoptionsdominator.com/ Binary Options

The thing is that in very industry and market the same thing happens. There are always a few giant rotten apples. Privacy doesn’t exist, get used to it.
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