Data Blackholes – Wake Up Before It Is Too Late
One of the biggest concerns still haunting enterprises is about giving up control over their data to third party services. They are worried that they have absolutely no control over the data once it leaves their hands and they are yet to find a fool proof way (except for encryption which causes considerable inconvenience and […]
The Looming Data Wars
Last week, Google asked Facebook to get their hands off the data stored in their service. Google felt that Facebook is taking data in programmatically from other services while not reciprocating in the same way. Google should have made this move 2-3 years back but it is better late than never. Google supports data portability. […]
Download Your Facebook Data: I Got A Hint One Week Back
Facebook is holding an event today and one of the big news coming out of the event is regarding their move towards data portability. According to Techcrunch, At today’s Facebook event in Palo Alto, Mark Zuckerberg just announced a feature that allows users to port their data off of Facebook, “People own and have control […]
The Cat is Out of the Bag (Again): The Hidden (?) Business Model in SaaS
Forget software: it’s all about (your) data. Hyper-growing Financial Management system provider and Quicken / MS Money challenger Mint recently raised eyebrows announcing their plan to sell anonymized aggregate customer data. Some reviewers were screaming, we saw bombastic titles like Personal Finance Startup Mint Wants To Sell Your Money Trail – but in reality the […]
Plain English, Transparent TOS, Please
Image via Wikipedia I started this as a comment to Krish’s post on the mental shift SaaS brings about, then realized I should make it a post on it’s own right: short, but important. Krish reflects on the recent Wall Street Journal: Do You Know Where Your Data Are?, and in his response mostly deals […]
Cloud Vendors Should Act Now
The Star Tribune from Minneapolis-St. Paul carried an article, few days back, on the issues related to keeping the data on the clouds. The author clearly identifies the issues we face in the society as we move further into the adoption of cloud computing technologies The danger is less that the cloud will be a Wild West than that […]
