vía tiara.org: “privacy and web 2.0″… referencia a Will Harris: “Why Web 2.0 will end your privacy”

“Flickr is perhaps one of the most interesting ones. Search for ‘cat’, and Flickr will record the most popular photo clicked. By associating the colour and picture data within photos with keywords used to search, Yahoo is slowly building a database of human identification. It has often said that the differentiator between Yahoo and Google, going forward, is that Yahoo wants the web processed by humans and Google wants it done by robots. Google uses algorithms to generate anything to do with its business. Yahoo, with its acquisition of Flickr and Delicious and whatever else is on the horizon, wants people – and social networks – to define how it does business.”

(también referenciado en technology and the social: “web 2.0 and privacy”).

addenda: vía creativity/machine: “the cultural politics of flickr tags”