A Brewing Storm

We all have subscriptions to many free service providers on the internet: Google, Yahoo, Flickr, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the list goes on. And we enjoy them. And we appreciate the fortunate circumstances which allow us to use these services at no cost.

However, as more and more of our real life has an online component (i.e. a component in the virtual world), we grow to expect more control over our data and the services we use.