{"id":1449,"date":"2013-08-05T11:29:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2013-08-05T11:29:17","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T18:29:17","slug":"articulating-the-cost-of-the-feudal-big-internet-company-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/articulating-the-cost-of-the-feudal-big-internet-company-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Articulating the cost of the &#8220;feudal&#8221; big internet company model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has turned into warring fiefdoms of new <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2013\/06\/you_have_no_control_over_s.html\">feudal<\/a> overlords: Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc.<\/p>\n<p>There are advantages of this new feudal model: free products. No system administration hassles. Higher security etc.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to articulate the costs and downsides. Less &#8220;control&#8221; for the individual is not a downside in itself. What are the things that we want to do that we cannot do because of that lack of control?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>information we may want to keep may be lost, e.g. a photo service with our family pictures might <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/06\/22\/rip-snapjoy-the-dropbox-acquired-photo-service-is-shutting-down\/\">shut down<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>we cannot manage our own privacy, so information about us is exposed to 3rd parties in ways we don&#8217;t know, we might not approve etc.<\/li>\n<li>we may not be able to interact with our data in the way we want; we may not be able to run third-party apps on our data; or third-party apps would be &#8220;taxed&#8221; by the overlord into non-viability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What else? Perhaps the essence is that the big internet company has their way of making our data accessible to us, and we might prefer another, or more than one?<\/p>\n<p>E.g. If I wanted to track my exercise and weight on fitbit.com, my foods on some other site, my sleep patterns with MotionX, generate a custom health score and do a competition on health improvement with my relatives in private. This kind of thing would be hard to do with a feudal model. (Admittedly a contrived example, but this kind of thing?) Same if I wanted to connect my thermostat, my doorbell, my webcam etc. from multiple vendors into just the &#8220;right&#8221; system for my house?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet has turned into warring fiefdoms of new feudal overlords: Facebook, Google, Microsoft etc. There are advantages of this new feudal model: free products. No system administration hassles. Higher security etc. I&#8217;m trying to articulate the costs and downsides. Less &#8220;control&#8221; for the individual is not a downside in itself. What are the things&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"webmentions_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,65],"tags":[250,282,224],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud","category-personal","tag-control","tag-feudal","tag-pcloud","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/upon2020.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}