Digi’s Weeave Warning
April 8th, 2010 | Published in Blog | 5 Comments
Digi’s Weeave [link] is like the eBuddy of Social Networking. What it does is it stores your passwords to social networks on their servers, and with a single login, you have access to all your accounts. It’s a virtual keychain, kinda like Tweetdeck in a way. I applaud their efforts to consolidate the different social media out there.
But there are a few issues we need to keep in mind before sharing our private data with Digi, and potentially their advertising partners.
Marketing 101: In a survey / study (Freebies as reward) or promotional activity, attract people with gifts. Don’t worry, you’ll get to keep them after the promotion ends, and nobody will know.
The graphic explains it all. They are hungry for your personal information. Your tweets, access to your FRIEND’s tweets. Say I’m friends with Obama, and Obama is on protected tweets. But thanks to YOU, Digi have access to Barack Hussien Obama (his personal account ler..) through you!
It’s like, “Give me your ATM card and pin. I’ll withdraw money for you, on your instruction!” Sounds logical and convenient, but would you?
Ah, even more personal information, hooked to your mobile. Down the line, they’ll probably charge you to receive FB status updates on your phones or send spam to your phone and SM accounts.
Don’t get me wrong. I like the convenience of eBuddy mobile (when I’m on the go) or TweetDeck to manage my status updates. But hooking me up to so many things, it seems like they’re really all-out hunting and mining for our personal data. Why Google is so famous, is because they’ve been indexing all the stuff we put on the web! From the days of BBS, to Forums, to Geocities website and now to Blogspot blogs, nothing escapes the GoogleBot.
Yes, it is doing us a “service” by bringing visitors to our site. But at what cost? And why aren’t the profits shared? The revenue that Google receives, why not share it with content providers? AdSense is a joke. A [expletive] sick joke. Ah well. I’m just bitter ;)
p/s Kick Ass is an awesome film. Catch it in the cinemas next week =)
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April 8th, 2010 at 2:36 am (#)
Digi Weeave (social networking keychain service) http://is.gd/bjo2a My take.
April 9th, 2010 at 8:12 am (#)
Good write out. U R absolutely rite!
It freak me off when they want me to give out all my login & password like that. who knows what they will do with it.
April 13th, 2010 at 11:42 am (#)
Hi there Philip!
Thanks for the Weeave mention on your blog. Feedback about our platform is important to us which is why we’re reaching out to you to address your concerns.
The Weeave-Your-Web contest was created for our members to share the platform with their friends, and reward them for their efforts by incentivizing it with the various prizes.
We fully intend to make good on our promise of delivering the prizes to the winners, in fact, we’ve actually given out laptops, pokens as well as DiGi broadband internet sim cards as incentives during the course of beta-testing the platform with members of Project 500, the insider community who helped shape Weeave into what it is today with their feedback.
We also do not store usernames and passwords as we are using the authentication processes provided by these social networks. We use secured VPN networks for the messaging gateway to avoid people from the outside to snoop & tap data. And where applicable we follow standard encryption mechanism where in the sensitive data is completely encrypted during requests or responses. The programming standards we used will never allow anyone to know the sensitive data as they will be completely encrypted – basically this means we won’t be reading Barack Obama’s tweets any time soon :)
We hope these clarifies some of the concerns you’ve had about using our platform. Do drop us an email at weeave@project-500.com if you have any other questions and we look forward to seeing you give our platform another shot!
Cheers,
Josie
The Weeave Team
April 13th, 2010 at 11:59 am (#)
Dear Weave Team,
Thanks for the reply.
I’m fully away of the Facebook Connect and the other authentication mechanisms with high level of security across all social networks.
While I trust the encryption mechanisms you use (base on industry standards), it will take some convincing for very skeptical people like myself who have been burn by giving away passwords to “3rd party sites”.
Oh, of course I was just musing about the prizes give-away scam. I trust Digi will honour what you advertise.
As regard to the service fees and business model, surely you guys have something up your sleeves in order to generate revenue to support this business division, right? My thinking is that you will sell our data to your advertising partners.
I mean, it is common practice for free services to do that. Perhaps a paid model, no ads, and utmost privacy assured service will interest me, somewhat.
Good day, and thanks!
May 9th, 2010 at 7:01 pm (#)
@nizam6281 tula…cam bahaya pn ade… cos jmpa satu artikel ttg Weeave ni. http://philipkhor.com/i-dream/2010/digis-weeave-warning/