the snap.com terms & conditions includes a linking policy (which i just violated). the snap.com privacy policy (oops, there i go again) says, in part, “We may share certain information about you with carefully selected business partners, including those who may offer services that complement those provided by us or which we believe may be of interest to you.”
update: cory lays the smack down. with regard to the linking policy, at least. i think i forgot to mention the “we can sell your info to spammers” clause of the privacy policy.
another update: the linking policy got dropped. no change to the privacy policy. (links from boing boing and snap. am i cool yet?)
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Wow, I think you guys should consider chilling out and give them a little slack. Seems like there's so much animosity in blogland. They already acknowledged that it wasn't in the best interest of users and changed the policy. Rather quickly by my count. What I'm seeing from snap is a resposive attitude for which I will give them credit. Seems like a little touch of personal service. Now, if only I could get that type of human touch from adsense...
bill’s a big boy. he can handle a little criticism.
they do deserve credit for fixing the linking policy. hopefully the noise made about it will prevent the next person from crafting a similarly dumb linking policy.
hopefully they’ll earn the same credit for fixing the privacy policy.
Yesterday, here at the Web 2.0 Conference, Bill Gross of Idealab announced the new search engine Snap.com. Snap is well worth looking at and provides quite a number of innovative ideas (User Control options, feedback, and much transparency). In talking
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And snap.com links to boingboing, violating their policy of not allowing sites with stupid linking policies to link to them.
What will boingboing do?
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/10/04/boing_boing_has_a_li.html