But with the Internet being the Internet…. well even after 3 days, something as juicy as this was mirrored all over the world – and still is to this day.

Yes, people searching for example, their address would have a definite right to be concerned.

And yes I think AOL did leave themselves open to a lawsuit due to this (which I agree with).

However, after AOL published the information, it went into the public domain. I disagree with some of the “subjects” in this data threatening sites which have commented on it or analysed it.

It’s in the public domain, no court has ruled that it shouldn’t be in the public domain therefore if anyone who has been anonymised and made part of this research has an issue, they should most definitely file action against the people who released the information – in this case AOL .

I’ve got to admit that it is very useful for some projects. But of course it is project dependant. In a recent 6 month project I used the Iterative Model and I found that extremely useful for that project.

The best thing is to ensure that you plan each project properly and don’t try to rush it to skip ahead to development. Important decisions such as which design model to use takes time and rushing it can mean a wrong choice which, in the worse case scenario, leads to project failure .

We are currently devising a pricing structure also which we plan to release in the near future.

I will of course keep you up to date on the progress of the demo and the ITT application .

There will indeed be a demo going live in due course – this will be a scaled down ‘demo’ of the full app.

There are some final modifications that need to be applied to the application before it is suitable to publish.

But thank you for your interest and your patience .