DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Want some Quechup on your Rapleaf?

  • Steven Hodson · 2 years ago
    RapLeaf was one of the companies that I hightlighted in my post about the downside of this whole lifestream idea being put forth by the big boys of the blogosphere.

    It - along with others like Spock show how easy it is to keep track of just about anyone on the net with having just an email address to start with. I might have a contrary view to the typical cotton candy pie in the sky held by most of Web 2.0 but companies like RapLeaf and Trustfuse only seem to prove me right ... http://www.winextra.com/2007/09/01/who-needs-ca...
  • Gary Valan · 2 years ago
    Mathew, you read my mind. I am stuck in the Quechup mess - sending nastygrams to company management did not help. I had to delete all my contacts and move it to a new gmail a/c, maybe I should push/harass google to shut access to these morons.
  • Ruth Charles · 2 years ago
    Rapleaf is by far the more unpleasant of these two companies. It acquired my personal data by theft and deceit through the upscoop service and is using this for commercial gain. It created multiple profiles for me without my knowledge or consent. They have disregarded all requests to permanently delete this information. This is in direct contravention of EU and UK data protection and privacy laws.

    Ironic that this company claims to be all about reputations and trust on the web.
  • Tish Grier · 2 years ago
    While the social networking bill of rights might not make that much of an impact, it's an important thing for people to read. It may also lead to something much more important in the future--we don't really know. Statements sometimes bring issues to the attention of folks who don't really know there's an issue--and can get us to re-think our positions on related issues. So, we are once again in a wait-and-see phase in social networking....

    but the whole "lifestream" thing made me itchy when I first heard about it. and it still does. esp. when there is so much hype encouraging so many of us to put up so much of our lives online in an effort at "transaprency." Perhaps transparency will be, ultimately, a form of transluncency that will echo the way many of our parents and grandparents lived in the offline world.
  • engtech · 2 years ago
    Have we learned nothing from sixdegrees.com?