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Nextdoor Social Network

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COMMENT 293910	2012-07-03 05:50 PM
This city endorsed social network is free in the beginning, and then later the company will post advertising on this "free" network. Presumably after they have mined your personal data and posting interests, so they can target your eyeballs.
COMMENT 293917	2012-07-03 06:12 PM
Doesn't have any Noleta area groups.
COMMENT 293922P	2012-07-03 06:26 PM
Noleta is not in the City of Santa Barbara.
COMMENT 293949P	2012-07-03 08:02 PM
922P Smart comment.
COMMENT 293922P	2012-07-03 08:21 PM
949P: ain't it the truth; glad you like it!
COMMENT 293957	2012-07-03 08:59 PM
What's the deal with swiping stories off Santa Barbara View but not citing them? Strange
COMMENT 293958	2012-07-03 09:03 PM
We have had this in Goleta for six months or so and it works quite nicely.
COMMENT 293986P	2012-07-04 07:23 AM
If I told some of my neighbors that I was on vacation, they'd be throwing a party in my back yard, cannonballing the spa, and breaking in to use the bathroom and kitchen. Their guests would steal everything. No thank you.
COMMENT 293999	2012-07-04 08:15 AM
Hmmm.. nextdoor is a data mining company out of San Francisco, also running a site called fanbase, run by former google and yahoo dropouts, funded by Benchmark Capital and Shasta Ventures. Interesting to see the other holdings these firms have and the connection they have to new businesses that have arrived in SB. No matter how suspicious I am of all that I've read so far, I think it was wierd that city council took action to "approve" this. Do we need approval from these folks to use a social networking site? Is the council calendar so empty that this is what they occupy time with? I have a feeling there is more to this than meets the eye.
COMMENT 294019	2012-07-04 09:36 AM
We've tried the community social networking already, here on Edhat. I think the jury's out on if we'd call it a success... Why another one that the City Council needs to "approve"? If it's your community, your neighborhood, just start using the service if the group agrees. I find this odd.
COMMENT 293922P	2012-07-04 10:00 AM
293957, where's the swipe from the SBV? It is a report from the City and there's an interesting presentation on the City Council web site, available here, for the agenda for yesterday's meeting.
COMMENT 293910	2012-07-04 10:39 AM
This group gets free access to all the city's eyeballs for their later marketing schemes, which in turn makes them more valuable to the companies wanting access to our eyeballs, our targeted by neighborhood eyeballs. Marketers will pay more for Riviera eyeballs than they will for Milpas eyeballs. And your city is now handing all the eyeballs in the city for their fun and profit. You don't have to sign up, but I agree the city should not be in the business of delivering city eyeballs to a private enterprise whose stated up front interest is to sell us things later. But hook us with "free" access first. This company could have come to town and advertised directly to get people to sign up. Instead they got the city to sign us up indirectly, lock stock and barrel.
COMMENT 294065	2012-07-04 12:06 PM
You folks have read 1984 one to many times. Why can't this just be seen for what it is- Neighbors reaching out to create a community. I joined and have not been solicited once. Please before you knock something try it and then leave your comments. It's like complaining about the President but not voting.
COMMENT 294076	2012-07-04 01:06 PM
Once again, what is wrong with just talking face-to-face with the neighbors you want to talk with? I certainly don't give out my phone number to all of my neighbors and I don't add all of them as 'friends' on Facebook. TMI. All it takes with this new database is some teenage punk to hack his parents' account and he'll know who's on vacation, who's away on business, etc. The punk can figure out who is a feel-good liberal and who's a gun-toting NRA member. Who has a rottweiler and who has a teacup poodle. Makes it too easy to commit crimes and too easy to spy on each other.
DEE D	2012-07-04 01:08 PM
The web/net is still in it's Wild Wild West era. We don't know if it's capability will be exercised for the public (read, "individual") benefit, or for private (read, "corporate" or "corrupted government") benefit. It's up to We the People to pay enough attention to vote intelligently, and frankly, for the past decade or more things do not look that encouraging. Example, why doesn't the FCC require all licensees to provide a % of bandwidth for public service political messaging, eliminating $$ in politics? It's our government, we have to make it work. There is every reason to be cautious with these technologies we really don't fully understand or control.
COMMENT 293910	2012-07-04 04:27 PM
You haven't been bombed with targeted ads yet because the company's gimmick they stated up front in their public presentations when the question was asked, is to offer it for free to get the city's endorsement access and number of local eyeballs first. Then after a free trial period and sufficient numbers of signups to brag about to advertisers, they swoop in with their eyeball harvest and make their own money marketing your eyeballs and your interests on the side. And after this free trial period, they will have mined sufficient information from your posts to know how to target each set of eyeballs and know the socio-demographics of each "neighborhood", again for more precise marketing levels. They will sell the Milpas eyeballs to one marketer and the Riviera eyeballs to another and the Mesa eyeballs to a third.

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