Mary Branscombe (marypcb) wrote,
Mary Branscombe
marypcb

A Buzz allegory, with spam

In this analogy, you are the hog...

I don't grant the conclusion but the premise of this little story is excellent; for a free online service, users are not customers - they're ingredients for the business model

The hogosphere reacts to Buzzsaw

EDIT
thanks to ackicif for extracting the URL - I have no idea why the lj web interface borked the link because I didn't write the HTML by hand!
Tags: business model, google, link, privacy
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