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Dev Chair : Safety first

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Many years ago, car manufacturers emphasized only new features to entice new buyers. Then some time in the early 90’s car safety became important and car manufacturers put safety features top of the selling points for new model.

I feel that right now Web 2.0 service providers are operating like those car manufacturers before the shift to car safety.

Ever since the infant days of the internet, people have been putting more and more data online (emails, newsgroup posts and IRC conversations) without giving it any thought. But in the Web 2.0 age we are leaving behind a trail of data much more personal than ever before. We tell people about our lives, our thoughts, and where we’ve been with our photos (some even tagged with geo-data).

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