We’re a WEF Technology Pioneer
Christmas presents seem to come early this year. Two weeks ago we were awarded Best Technical Innovation at the SIME conference in Stockholm, last week we were announced to be on the Red Herring Global 200 100 list, and yesterday the World Economic Forum selected us a Technology Pioneer 2008 alongside Wikipedia, Clearwire and Yandex.ru.
We’re honored, we’re charmed, and we couldn’t be happier. While recognitions like these don’t in and of themselves resolve issues like those we’ve had the past couple of days, they – together with great user feedback – definitely keep up the spirits in Warsaw, Malmö and Amsterdam and makes the late night crunches more bearable.
See you in Davos come January!
Tags: feeling good
December 1st, 2007 at 09:56
Polar Rose,
Well deserved. I love the plug in and look forward to seeing matching being turned on.
—John
December 4th, 2007 at 21:47
Great idea, and I’m sure you as first adopter will be enormously successful. I have three questions that I can’ t find a definitive answer to anywhere else, however:
1) What is your definition of “private” photos? You have mentioned, I believe, but never confirmed that if you have to access a photo via a password, it won’t be included.
2) What is your current idea of properly tagging photos to be excluded?
3) What kind of opt-out system or detagging policy are you planning to offer? Many websites recognize that private photos are easily uploaded without the photographer or subject’s consent. If a copyrighted or otherwise private photo appears in the public domain, what are your current plans to deal with requests to remove this photo from your tagging? (I’m assuming a gap between getting the host to remove the photo, or a host that refuses to remove the photo despite legitimate cause).
I’ve seen increasing internet chatter about these concerns, particularly #3, and thanks to Facebook’s new policies these concerns are extremely topical. I’m sure you have already sought legal counsel on this issue—you could save us all time by posting a clarified version of your policies in your privacy statement.