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August 29, 2005

Rebrand yourself

Rebrand yourself: Robert Andrews at WIRED writes of tumult among Flickr members when told that identification systems will merge between Flickr and parent company Yahoo... some members consider resigning rather than get a Yahoo account. I'm not sure about details of this particular case, but I think we'll see more of this in the future -- keeping your personal data on Someone Else's Machine implies a continual set of readjustments of the contract between the two parties. There's also the pure social angle of changing neighborhoods, whether it's the old Usenet/AOL invasion, or the older Groucho Marx quote, web-based social neighborhoods will change just as local city neighborhoods do.

Posted by John Dowdell at August 29, 2005 02:18 PM

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