« The Apprentice: Episode 4: Waterloo for the Men | Main | The Apprentice: Episode 5: remix »
February 8, 2004
Orkooooopppssss!
So I FINALLY got an invitation to Orkut.com, the ultra hip and exclusive new social networking service from Google. I guess I am still in the first couple hundred thousand so I should be happy, but for some reason it was burning me a little to be a member of all the others and not this one yet. Scarcity makes the heart grow fonder. It always works. Google shows it's marketing prowess.
But then they stumble terribly. The Register reports on the Privacy Policy of Orkut. It is earilly familar to the doomed Passport policy that basically granted Microsoft all rights to everything you ever did with the service. Check out Orkut's...
"By submitting, posting or displaying any Materials on or through the orkut.com service, you automatically grant to us a worldwide, non-exclusive, sublicenseable, transferable, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable right to copy, distribute, create derivative works of, publicly perform and display such Materials."
Will this be Google's Waterloo? Or more likely Google's "I have a Scream" speech ala Howard Dean? A little shine is going off the penny. The loyal hoards will have to finally admit that Google is just like every other web marketer. They are trying to make money off your surfing. Any way they can.
Posted by Martin at February 8, 2004 7:52 PM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.nwventurevoice.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/976
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)