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Is it a bad thing? I imagine most results from such data will not have direct benefit for users (advertisement, profiling, persecution).
by jkot 10y ago
Is it a bad thing? I imagine most results from such data will not have direct benefit for users (advertisement, profiling, persecution).
- Pxtl 10y agoThere are a lot of people posting great stuff not about their own private lives, but about public issues to Twitter and Facebook... and Google doesn't find that content. Even old Reddit threads seem to have very spotty Google coverage, and I remember the days when google didn't spider Fark threads at all.
- pmlnr 10y agoTricky question. At the moment destroying these means destroying people's external memory. The "promise" was to keep them for us, so we needn't have to worry of keeping it ourselves, and so we can "live" more, since there is less to worry about. Many will only realize years later how bad this is, and will try to re-live an experience which they physically attended to, but not really took apart in it - just to find that all of this is gone. So at one point, it's a good thing that they are gone: people will learn not to rely on them. From another perspective, it will result it a lot of lost memories. But hey, we need to learn our lessons somehow.
- jkot 10y agoSounds like a good idea for startup. Archive someones social media, if they require it. Perhaps browser plugin which archives all visited pages with some filtering.
- sp332 10y agoTo me, startups are a little too flaky for this job. They have a pattern of deleting customer data when they fail, and the nature of startups is that they mostly fail. I'd prefer a tool I can run locally, or a larger established player like the Internet Archive.
- ashark 10y agoI keep looking for a good long-term, low maintenance solution for storing, organizing, and sharing family data (photos, videos, stories, et c.) and haven't found anything even close to good enough for me to commit to it. It must be a Hard Problem, I guess. Or demand is low because everyone just relies on Facebook or whatever to do it for them.
- dublinben 10y agoI recommend taking a look at GNU Mediagoblin for collecting/sharing your personal media. It supports multiple file types, like pictures, video, audio, and text.
- jkot 10y agoMultiple storages. One in startup, second on Dropbox, one local, another one in AWS Glacier. This way startup failure does not affect users.
- dredmorbius 10y agoThe challenge isn't the startup. It's the not-shutting-down.
- sp332 10y agoThe six datasets used were: "H1N1 virus outbreak, Michael Jackson's death, the Iranian elections and protests, Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the Egyptian revolution, and the Syrian uprising." I think conversations about these topics would be valuable for future study, not to mention the cultural impact of simply forgetting our history.