http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/technology/08class.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=technology
The above is to a link which discusses social networking applications and the enourmous potential that they have. The article focuses a class at Stanford University in 2007 where groups of students would make Facebook applications. The applications were often very simple and recieved a lot of traffic via Facebook. Once ads were included in the applications, large revenues were coming in. An important theme of the succesfull groups was the simplicity of the applications. In one instance, the code for a group's application was mistakingly deleted three days before launch. The group's forced rudimentary version turned out to be the most successfull group.
Another important note about the article is how recent technology has made it significantly easier for start ups. For example, open source software and cloud technologies allowed the groups to make these applications for very little startup costs. Without these technologies, the initial costs would be too great for a small group of college students.
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Data Privacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/business/01stream.html?ref=technology
The above link is to an article which discusses data privacy. In particular, data privacy regarding doctor patient relations. There has been controversy regarding whether pharmacies can sell prescription records for marketing purposes. In Vermont, a law was passed which allowed doctors to decide whether or not they wanted pharmacies to sell the information. However, there have been talks of extending the decision to the patients as well. Not everyone is supportive of the more privacy conscious legislation. pharmacueticals argue that since patients records are encrypted before they are sold, they are not able to be linked to the prescriptions that they recieve.
I chose this article because I think that data security and privacy is an increasingly relevent topic. As we share more information via the internet, there will be more opporunities for data to be mined and privacy to potentially be intruded upon. In this particular case, I do believe that the right of whether doctor patient prescription should be sold be extended to the patient as well. In the end, i believe that privacy situations like this are very delicate because threats to privacy via the internet are only going to increase.
The above link is to an article which discusses data privacy. In particular, data privacy regarding doctor patient relations. There has been controversy regarding whether pharmacies can sell prescription records for marketing purposes. In Vermont, a law was passed which allowed doctors to decide whether or not they wanted pharmacies to sell the information. However, there have been talks of extending the decision to the patients as well. Not everyone is supportive of the more privacy conscious legislation. pharmacueticals argue that since patients records are encrypted before they are sold, they are not able to be linked to the prescriptions that they recieve.
I chose this article because I think that data security and privacy is an increasingly relevent topic. As we share more information via the internet, there will be more opporunities for data to be mined and privacy to potentially be intruded upon. In this particular case, I do believe that the right of whether doctor patient prescription should be sold be extended to the patient as well. In the end, i believe that privacy situations like this are very delicate because threats to privacy via the internet are only going to increase.
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