It’s About Time, McDonald’s
From Mashable, this headline:
McDonald’s Adds Free Wi-Fi to the Menu
Halleluia!
I wrote a post on this very blog (well, it had a different design at the time, and maybe a different name, but it had the same URL anyhow) nearly THREE YEARS AGO, laying out a case for why McDonald’s needed to get rid of its $2.95 wi-fi fee. And, it appears the reason they switched is the exact reason I laid out in my post. Here’s what Mashable says:
…McDonalds is hoping to become a hang-out spot of the coffee shop variety — it also plans to start selling frappes and smoothies mid-2010. And given the fact that coffee chains like Starbucks charge customers to surf while they sip, the idea doesn’t seem all that pie-in-the-sky.
…and here’s what I said in my post, On Wi-Fi Hotspots and McDonald’s, on February 10, 2007:
Free web access [...] would open McDonald’s to an entirely different set of customers. If you walk into a Panera Bread Company store in the middle of the day, you’ll see that it’s crawling with business people who are eating and getting a little work done. McDonald’s could combine cheaper food with free Internet, and draw a bunch of those businesspeople in. Parents could even get some work done while their kids catch syphilis from those hamster tube play areas.
It’s nice when a big company reacts to a reasoned argument from a PR guy like me ;)
Again with the Privacy Issues, Facebook?
Those who don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it.
Cliche’?
Sure.
True?
Absolutely.
Back in February, users argued with Facebook so much over who owns the material they post on the social networking site, the site was forced to amend the privacy settings it had just changed. That change in privacy settings probably didn’t slow down Facebook’s exponential growth, but it left a lot of users with a bad taste in their mouths.
Now, it sounds like we’re having another round of issues with Facebook over privacy. Recently, the site changed its privacy settings again, and asked all users to review them. The site made recommendations on what settings users should utilize, and some are suggesting that if users take those recommendations, their personal information (pictures, videos, status updates, etc.) will be LESS private than before. For an example of some of the reactions from the web, we go to Jason Calacanis, who suggests the company has turned evil:
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