{"id":1174,"date":"2004-04-18T22:41:29","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/tim_oreilly_on_gmail.html"},"modified":"2004-04-18T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2004-04-18T22:41:29","slug":"tim_oreilly_on_gmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/04\/18\/tim_oreilly_on_gmail.html","title":{"rendered":"Tim O&#8217;Reilly on Gmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are interested in the Gmail story, reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oreillynet.com\/pub\/wlg\/4707\">Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s essay<\/a> is a must.  By and large, i agree with him on the privacy issue.  The only place where we diverge is that i don&#8217;t fully agree with: &#8220;No one is going to be forced to use gmail. If you don&#8217;t like ads in your mail, don&#8217;t use the service. Let the market decide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People will use Gmail because the incentives are high, but their participation in Gmail is not because the ads make them feel good or because they like ads in their mail.  This goes back to my rants on the ickiness factor.  Just because it&#8217;s being used doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s being loved or even the right move&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those who are interested in the Gmail story, reading Tim O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s essay is a must. By and large, i agree with him on the privacy issue. The only place where we diverge is that i don&#8217;t fully agree with: &#8220;No one is going to be forced to use gmail. If you don&#8217;t like ads [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}