dumbest idea of 2009?
no...I find it insane. How about an iPhone App that let's the world hear all of your conversations?
There’s also the potential to have private accounts that maybe a businessman would only share with his assistant to let them know what’s being purchased and explain things a bit better in the comments. Again, yes the idea is controversial, but there are a lot of interesting things that could come of it, if people are willing to be this transparent."
Owning this data is valuable.
I don't deny that amongst the buried millions of transactions this system will most assuredly generate, some minute fraction may actually benefit somebody by showing Comcast shenanigans or something. But... at what cost?
Sure, consumers might get some small amount of "empowerment", and all it took was handing large amounts of empowerment over to Blippy and whatever "affiliates" they sign with next month. Wow, what a deal!
As the cost of a bit goes down the signal-to-noise ratio seems to get worse. Broadcasting everyones spoken words is definitely in our future somewhere if the current trends continue.