Hey Meeps, I’m gonna get deep here for a second. We’ve been talking about our ‘raison d’etre‘ at Meeco office of late. A lot. Love the old start-up ethos of ‘Lets use technology XYZ to make the world a better place‘ but it’s just not very specific. With a growing team, tight schedule of releases and everyone …
An Australian survey published by Latrobe University reported that almost 50% out of 2000 year 12 students had sex before leaving high school. Of that figure, more than half reported sending naughty nudes to each other. In the U.K a study revealed that teenage girls were twice as susceptible to …
Wilfried N’Guessman, Jonathan Svärdh and Stefan Normann are Digital Data Strategy students at Hyper Island, Stolkholm. They have a shared interest in the collection of data and its impacts on humanity. For a recent project, they set about to uncover ‘the hidden truths of connectivity’ on the internet and visualise it in an interesting and …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
