Online Privacy

These days all we hear about is Online Privacy, or Internet Privacy, no matter how you call it's all the same, Privacy Issues within the web; specially in social networking site that have become so popular in the last years. With the creation of Facebook and the continued popularity of MySpace many people are giving their personal information out on the internet, these sites keep track of what people do while they are visiting the site, and save that info for later. Most of us are no aware that we can modify the privacy settings if we want to.

 Recently the FTC released a report on how to protect the user from privacy violations. While this might help just a bit, I think that if you don't want to feel like your privacy if being violated you can follow this simple suggestions from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I'm a firm believer that if you want thing to change you have to do something about it, and not just expect that people, in this case the Government, is going to solve them for you.


I don't know about you, but in my case I still  really haven't felt like my privacy in being invaded, I'm only get junk mail from web sites where I have previously disclosed information. I might be a bit extreme in this point, but like I said before, if you don't want your private information on the web, don't disclose it. For me is as simple as that.

Deal of the day - Who is it for?

Now days everyone is talking about group discounts, since the creation of Groupon many others are trying to create the same business model, create a "deal of the day". But for who does it really works? For big companies or can it also be used and help smaller companies?

Group Price just launched a new service targeted for smaller business and companies. They are offering deals on online softwares that are usually too expensive for this compnaies to acquire. This will help them by allowing samll companies to have online precense, grow and manager their business.

Personally I think that this will help opne a whole new market for this small companies, which didn't have acces to the huge and fast growing online market.

But for some other businesses like retail, restaurants, spas, entertainment, the story goes a diferente way... This Groupon thing is sort of getting out of their hands. Many of these business esare not getting what they signed up for. For example there has been some complaint about people in the same group usisng more that one discount at a time... Is this what you want? Do this companies want to give away their products? I don't think so...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/groupprice-launches-group-buying-for-small-businesses-111043584.html