[governance] Re: reality check on economics

[Fouad Bajwa]

And free services is not the real product, its a means to the product,
that is with gmail, I can be accessed and if I can be accessed, my
virtual presence as a gmail account can be sold to advertisers and
content marketers.

-0 Foodafied!

On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Jeremy Malcolm <jeremy at ciroap.org> wrote:
> On 20 May, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Guru गुरु <Guru at ITforChange.net> wrote:
>
> I wonder how Consumers International will view the take that increasingly
> for the big Internet companies like Google and Facebook, 'we'  (eyeballs)
> are the product, and the advertising agencies are the real consumers!
>
>
> Yes, hence the maxim, "If you didn't pay for the product, you are the
> product."
>
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