Recently I had the pleasure of catching up with the lovely Denise Holt from Collaborative IQ. Denise is the CMO & Co-Founder, GratZeez, Inc. & CEO & Founder, Collaborative IQ and the host of the Collaborative IQ Podcast. A serial Entrepreneur since age 23, she has co-founded and operated businesses ranging from local service …
Privacy & Quantifying the Real Cost of ‘Free’
Lysanne de Water is a graphic design student at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. For her data design minor she chose to focus on the subject of ‘Internet: Censorship, Privacy and Human Rights’. She researched twelve digital platforms, including Facebook, Twitter, Ello and Meeco to examine each service’s level of transparency, privacy and use of …
U.S. Passes the Buck to Parents on Children’s Education Data Protection
On February 26, the U.S. Department of Education launched the ‘Privacy Technical Assistance Center’ (PTAC), a website designed to act as a “One-stop resource for education stakeholders to learn about data privacy, confidentiality, and security practices related to student-level longitudinal data systems and other uses of student data.” This is the first …
#IoB: The Internet of Babies
Parents across the Internet are following a trend of (practically) live streaming their children’s pre-birth on Facebook, Skype and YouTube. Ultra sounds and updates of their babies health are also finding themselves flung into the digital sphere with the help of apps designed to track the growth of their soon-to-be’s…
Invitation to join our Research and Prototype Testing Panel
Hi, I’m Penelope, Meeco’s new Content & Communities Lead. Our founder, KD introduced in me her last blog post ‘Oh the Places You’ll Go‘. My role at Meeco is to collaborate and engage with you, our members, to help us deliver a great service that in turn helps you optimise your connected life and …
The start of your improved experience
Here we are at the beginning of 2015 and we are starting to see how Meeco is changing thanks to your feedback. Meeps who sign in to Meeco for Web will see the first steps toward a more integrated dashboard experience, which will also support more insight and context from …
Latest Meeco for iOS enables publish, export and sharing content
Everyday we see things on the Internet that we want to share, publish to social networks or add to our to-do list. The latest version of Meeco for iOS is another leap forward in making it easier to export, publish and share into and out of your Meeco experience. Meeco …
Oh The Places You’ll Go
Over the years I have had the great privilege of working in some amazing teams. Those extraordinary experiences where by the end of the project, I emerged a better person simply because of the people I was surrounded by everyday. One of these experiences was a particularly challenging program of …
December Feature News
It’s been a busy past couple of months, packed with performance enhancements and new features. So busy in fact, that we haven’t had a chance to share our latest news! In this post we will introduce you to two major new enhancements and a long list of upgrades that will …
Meeco in Action – The Official Video Tour
Our first ninety days In the three short months since the Public Beta launch, Meeco continues to evolve thanks to your support, feedback and insight. Meeco is a platform for managing a more private life in the connected world. It gives you the power to capture your personal data and …
The day I realised my personal data was no longer mine
I am looking to stay at a boutique hotel in New York’s West Village, I am also apparently looking for a home loan, I compulsively read the Guardian news website and I am addicted to Instagram. Based on this information, what type of image could you build up of me? …
Futurist Gerd Leonard Predicts Humanity is at a Tipping Point
I was fortunate enough to attend the ACCAN National Conference in Sydney recently to hear the compelling vision of futurist Gerd Leonard in his talk “The future of connectivity and consumer rights”. This was followed by a hearty discussion on “The Privacy Catch” including Meeco CEO, Katryna Dow. The Formalities …
Are your digital decisions disadvantaging your children?
This is the backstory to my experience leading up to the Meeco launch, along with my view of the passion and energy that went into making Meeco possible. It is also the story about the digital birth of a baby boy who has been born at pivotal moment in history …
The man behind Meeco’s Data Science for Good Initiatives
In London recently, after an inspiring exchange of emails and tweets I finally had the pleasure to meet Ajit Jaokar in person. Ajit is a man of many talents; an academic, consultant, teacher, scientist and father. His span of interests is reflected in the range of topics he blogs, tweets …
The Arrival of Calm Technology
A lot has changed in the past twenty years. It wasn’t that long ago that the most intrusive technologies in our lives consisted of the home telephone and direct marketing. These invasions of our privacy were easily curbed by even simpler tech solutions: the answering machine and a “no junk …
An introduction to the Meeco Experience
We are all time poor, and sometimes, we need a simple overview before drilling down in the experience first hand. To satiate your curiosity we have collated all of the onboarding screens into a single slide show which will walk you through the major engagement points and benefits to using …
The War for Your Privacy
In the eyes of some, there is a raging battle for the privacy of the consumer Internet. In fact, The Guardian recently wrote that in the era of big data, the battle for privacy had already been fought and lost. I argued this point on LinkedIn recently, and made a …
Meeco Private Browser Launcher now available for Firefox
It’s now easier to be more anonymous online with the new Meeco Private Browser Launcher for Firefox. The free Firefox browser add-on allows you to launch the Site Tiles in your My Sites board into individual private browsing sessions. This means that each new window is a cleansed of browser …
August Release Notes
Since we launched the Meeco public beta back in July, the team have been listening to your insightful feedback, suggestions and bug reports. As a result, we have fixed a ton of bugs, made considerable performance enhancements and increased the stability of the iOS App and web experiences. Make sure …