La nova patent de Google, fa por. Això és el que en pensa Nicholas Carr:

Should the Google methods be implemented - and I don’t doubt they will, in some form - our computers won’t just feed back to companies information about what we click on or where we move our cursors but also, thanks to the ubiquitous webcam, information about our “facial expressions” as we peruse a page. We all have our tell-tales, the tics that give us away, and once you digitize them and run them through an algorithm, they’re pure gold.

The all-seeing eye - Nicolas Carr

Cal tenir ben clar que tot el que es pugui imaginar s’implementarà i és decisió nostra si ens deixem enlluernar per les llums dels que juguen amb les nostres dades, o no.

En aquest article, Google empra el català com a excusa per a recopilar dades dels usuaris.

I always have been a happy user of Gmail. Its inteface is probably one of the most interesting interfaces ever done for e-mail. However, I also like to read my e-mail through IMAP, it allows me to use Gmail off-line.

But this IMAP implementation has a huge problem. It doesn’t deal well with character encodings. Many messages that I can read well from the web interface or after having downloaded them through POP, don’t show well through IMAP. I tried this with Thunderbird and with Mail.app.

Google has always been encoding savvy, but it looks like this time they forgot we live in a multilingual world.