Will People Ever Pay for Privacy, Part XVI
Every now and then, a headline helps us see the answer to the question “Will people ever pay for Privacy?”
Quoth the Paper of record:
The seclusion may be the biggest selling point of the estate belonging to Robert Hurst, a former executive at Goldman Sachs, which was just listed by Debbie Loeffler of the Corcoran Group for $65 million.
There’s more in the article.
I wish Google and Facebook has the equivalent of Hotmail Plus (or whatever it has been rebranded to this week) – I can’t really avoid FB if I want to use a social network (because the killer feature is actually having people you know use it), and nobody really makes a good competitor to Google Reader. I would pay to become their customer rather than their product