Google confirmed that it will be providing free high-speed wi-fi in San Francisco. If I ran a competing company (and there might be a few of those in and around SF), it would freak me out to have my employees sending all of our private communications over our competition's wireless network.
I think about that all the time -- how dot com companies rely on gmail, AIM, Yahoo IM, MSN Messenger and Basecamp.
Is it safe to load all of our corporate plans into Basecamp when it is a 37signals product and they do design work for Gawker Media? Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows. Does anyone else worry about this?
Does anyone else make ta-da lists with items like:
- Steal top developers from 37signals team
- Finish Cobol on Rails
- Build a Basecamp killer
- Heckle Jason Fried at Web 2.0
just to see if they're listening?
GrimJack
EZ Street
Jon Sable, Freelance
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Jason Fried 1049 days ago
Love the list!
Brian Alvey 1049 days ago
Nice! But did you find out about it from my blog or...
Jason Fried 1048 days ago
From your blog! We don't look at your data.
karol 1046 days ago
you guys crack me up....truth is though I wonder about it all the time...and brian how do you limit that happening with folks using blogsmith??
peace
k
Brian Alvey 1035 days ago
There's a difference in the content between Basecamp and Blogsmith. Basecamp is full of details on projects that you might not want public. Blogsmith is full of blog posts that are visible to the world.
Using server-side tools to peek into non-WIN Blogsmith blogs to get content for WIN blogs is not practical. WIN bloggers can just subscribe to them via RSS.
Again, I'm not saying this is an issue at Basecamp (or Yahoo IM, AIM, MSN Messenger, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail, etc.). I'm just saying that it can feel a little strange to have your corporate data traveling over a potential competitor's service like everyone in SF using free Google wi-fi.