I posted the other day about how universal wishlists are one of the ways the walls of traditional marketing are coming down. In a broader sense, this trend is going on all over the place: the walls of the walled gardens are coming down as big companies realize that customers don’t like to be corralled. [...]
Isn’t the way Google wants to track everything about you a little unsettling?
At least it now lets you access your data and doesn’t publish it with “anonymous” (obvious) ids like AOL does. Still the privacy freak in me is a little troubled.
That said, Google has definitely been one of the more benevolent companies out there, [...]
AOL sucks for blocking my emails to AOL customers. From their mail FAQ:
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504 - (RTR:BB) The IP address you are using to connect to AOL is a dynamic (residential) IP address. AOL will not accept future e-mail transactions from this IP address until your ISP removes this IP address from its list of dynamic (residential) [...]
