Tag Archives: privacy

Bookmarks for November 28th through December 2nd

By admin | Published: December 4, 2010

Links for November 28th through December 2nd: Amazon WikiLeaks Message – We’ve been running AWS for over four years and have hundreds of thousands of customers storing all kinds of data on AWS. Some of this data is controversial, and that’s perfectly fine. But, when companies or people go about securing and storing large quantities [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .cn, .uk, 2010, amazon, application, art, cloud, comments, cracking, ddos, design, distributed, dns, feedback, ftc, google, government, groupon, html5, ipad, law, libel, media, p2p, quotes, security, streetart, swarm, swoon, takedown, television, tos, value, virgin, wikileaks, yahoo | Comments closed

Bookmarks through November 13th

By admin | Published: November 13, 2010

Links for October 31st through November 13th: Geoloqi – A secure, real-time mobile and web platform for location sharing. – Online Privacy Is Poised for Regulatory Showdown – NYTimes.com – “There is going to be a lot of confusion over the competing proposals and which version Congress and the American people should pay attention to,” [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, analysis, artists, blogging, business, camera, closedgraph, communicationsact, disintermediation, driver, economics, fcc, future, geo, google, government, inclusion, infosec, kinect, lbs, licence, mapping, maps, media, msft, nyc, open, opt-in, participation, personnel, police, politics, pov, sentiment, socialnetwork, standardsandpractices, streetart, surveillance, surveillancecamera, television, tvshow, twitter, video, wealth | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 26th through October 31st

By admin | Published: October 31, 2010

Links for October 26th through October 31st: MuckRock | Home – Ever wonder how food stamp money is actually being spent? Curious as to how hard the "great recession" has hit your community? In this exclusive MuckRock data set, we present over four years of government reimbursement data, including exact reimbursement amounts and exact addresses [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged apple, attention, corporatecommunication, curation, data, datamining, datavisualization, drm, entrepreneurship, facebook, firesheep, foia, friend, google, government, gowalla, group, hack, howto, influence, information, infosec, ios, iphone, lbs, locationbased, locative, pathhistory, people, personnel, phone, placehistory, possibilianism, psychology, rapleaf, risk, science, socialgraph, sociology, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, twitter, type:study, vlcplayer | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 11th through October 15th

By admin | Published: October 15, 2010

Links for October 11th through October 15th: RefControl :: Add-ons for Firefox – Control what gets sent as the HTTP Referer on a per-site basis. slight paranoia – I don't think that it is possible to reasonably claim that millions of individual search queries associated to particular IP addresses are "aggregated, non-personal information". Starbucks breaks [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged add-on, advertising, agency, api, banksy, book, brand, cool, copyright, datamining, deerhunter, design, diggtest, digitalagency, fast, feedback, firefox, free, ftc, gawker, geo, google, googletv, http_referer, information, infosec, intelligence, interview, ip, lbs, life, listening, locative, marketing, markghuneim, music, musicvideo, newyorker, nielsen, open, people, personalinfocloud, pii, profile, real-time, scrape, search, simpson, sms, sony, starbucks, stencil, telcom, television, textmessage, throwingmuses, trendrr, type:article, ui, wiredset | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 28th through October 3rd

By admin | Published: October 3, 2010

Links for September 28th through October 3rd: Op-Ed Columnist – Fear and Favor – NYTimes.com – Thus in Britain, a reporter at one of Mr. Murdoch’s papers, News of the World, was caught hacking into the voicemail of prominent citizens, including members of the royal family. But Scotland Yard showed little interest in getting to [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2010, advertising, agregator, apple, application, art, business, design, facbook, facebook, fashion, fox, ftp, government, iphone, itms, local, mac, media, news, nyc, oldschool, op-ed, opening, people, personnel, phone, ping, politics, recommendation, remove, socialgraph, socialnetwork, socialsearch, store, strategy, todo, udid, utilitiy, video | Comments closed

Bookmarks for December 14th through December 16th

By admin | Published: December 16, 2009

Links for December 14th through December 16th: Welcome | dpBestflow – The Mobile Internet Report – We can’t see the garden for the Apples and BlackBerrys – washingtonpost.com – Adriana de Souza e Silva, assistant professor of communication at North Carolina State University, says the widespread acceptance of public phoning, texting, surfing and tweeting on [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2009, api, bestpractices, communications, digital, digitization, encoding, google, journalism, marymeeker, metadata, mobile, mobility, morganstanley, photography, reference, report, research, rev, search, sociology, software, stats, storage, technology, type:interview, uri, url, virtual, webservice | Comments closed

Bookmarks for December 13th through December 14th

By admin | Published: December 14, 2009

Links for December 13th through December 14th: rev=canonical: url shortening that doesn’t hurt the internet – Huh? RevCanonical is url shortening with a twist. Instead of creating its own super short versions of links, it checks to see if the link owner has published a shortened version of the given page using HTML link element. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2009, api, bestpractices, business, demographics, foia, google, government, marketing, media, metadata, nyt, rev, socialmedia, statistics, television, tool, trendrr, twitter, uri, url, webservice | Comments closed

Bookmarks for December 9th through December 12th

By admin | Published: December 12, 2009

Links for December 9th through December 12th: the raa ::: explore the rural alberta advantage – http://api.deweymusic.org/ – Archive.org contains millions of great public domain songs. They're all free to download, copy and redistribute. With such a great resource available to anyone, why isn't everyone using it? Part of the problem is that Archive.org is [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2009, 2010, api, artist, conference, copyright, dev, digitalidentity, discovery, eff, facebook, identity, infosec, mashup, music, musicvideo, socialmedia, twitter, vevo | Comments closed

Bookmarks for December 6th through December 7th

By admin | Published: December 7, 2009

Links for December 6th through December 7th: YouTube – Google Goggles – Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android phones. Instead of using words, take a picture of an object with your camera phone: we attempt to recognize the object, and return relevant search… Google Goggles is a visual search app for Android [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged business, corporatecommunications, e-commerce, format, google, infosec, music, musicretail, quote, retail, sales, search, shopping, statistics, vinyl, visualsearch | Comments closed

Bookmarks for December 1st through December 4th

By admin | Published: December 4, 2009

Links for December 1st through December 4th: Too Much Joy» Blog Archive » My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement – So I was naively excited when I opened the envelope. And my answer was right there on the first page. In five years, our three albums earned us a grand total of… $62.47 Google Public [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .gov, 2009, alternative, datamining, digitalmusic, dns, doj, economics, geo, gis, google, gps, internet, music, musicindustry, publishing, royalties, search, statistics, surveillance, trends, twitter, visualization, wbr, zeitgeist | Comments closed

Bookmarks for November 22nd through November 29th

By admin | Published: November 29, 2009

Links for November 22nd through November 29th: The Media Equation – For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise – NYTimes.com – Certain stalwart brands will survive and even thrive because of a new scarcity of quality content for niche audiences that demand more than generic information. The chip that was implanted in [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2009, anonymity, business, corporateculture, culture, disintermediation, financial, infosec, label, media, musicindustry, revenues, security, soc, software, statistics, system:filetype:png, system:media:image, technology, trendrr, wmg | Comments closed

Bookmarks for November 15th through November 19th

By admin | Published: November 19, 2009

Links for November 15th through November 19th: FT.com / UK – Spotify US launch delayed by record labels’ concerns – However, sources in three of the four largest music companies told the Financial Times that record labels' financial concerns were the greater hurdle. "We think Spotify is a great service but they're going to have [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged boston, business, conference, content, hacking, licensing, media, music, musicindustry, news, newspaper, pricepoint, publishing, streaming, type:study | Comments closed

Bookmarks for November 12th through November 15th

By admin | Published: November 15, 2009

Links for November 12th through November 15th: Would Anyone Pay for MySpace Music? – But even if the freemium model does work for music — and I’m far from convinced that it does — MySpace is so far behind in terms of user interface and experience that it’s hard to imagine the company launching a [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2009, analysis, analytics, authentication, book, business, copyright, datamining, digitization, disintermediation, fairuse, geo, google, howto, lawsuit, lbs, legal, location, locative, mobile, publishing, search, security, surveillance, technology | Comments closed

Bookmarks for November 9th through November 10th

By admin | Published: November 10, 2009

Links for November 9th through November 10th: In Americans’ Daily Diet: Nearly Five Hours of Television – Media Decoder Blog – NYTimes.com – Nielsen posits that several sources are responsible for the gradual rise in television viewing. Households have more TV sets and viewers “have more channels and content to choose from,” the company says [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged analysis, api, concert, geo, geocoding, gis, internet, location, mapping, media, music, nielsen, photography, regulation, statistics, surveillance, television, trends, tvshow, twitter, venue | Comments closed

Bookmarks for November 8th through November 9th

By admin | Published: November 9, 2009

Links for November 8th through November 9th: Burberry Looks Online for Ways to Gain Customers – NYTimes.com – That’s one of the main reasons Burberry is now focusing on the Internet. Ms. Ahrendts said she gets a lot of inspiration from her three children, who spend time surfing the Web and buy most of their [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged animation, brooklyn, business, fashion, geo, gis, grizzlybear, music, musicvideo, socialnetwork, twitter, youtube | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 29th through October 30th

By admin | Published: October 30, 2009

Links for October 29th through October 30th: Listorious: Discover the Best Twitter Lists – The Associated Press: Ariz. court rules records law covers ‘metadata’ – Hidden data embedded in electronic public records must be disclosed under Arizona's public records law, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a case that attracted interest from media and [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged 2010, api, business, clearances, data, dealterms, directory, facebook, government, list, magazine, media, microblogging, personalinfocloud, pii, release, rights, searchengine, singularity, socialgraph, talent, twitter, virtual | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 25th through October 26th

By admin | Published: October 26, 2009

Links for October 25th through October 26th: CIMM – coalition for innovative media measurement – Objectives of CIMM The Coalition was founded by 14 leading Television content providers, Media Agencies and Advertisers to promote innovation in audience measurement for Television and cross-platform media. CIMM will explore and identify new methodologies and approaches to audience measurement [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged analytics, artists, conference, convergence, culture, curate, entertainment, government, list, measurement, media, metrics, mit, musicians, socialnetwork, surveillance, twitter | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 24th through October 25th

By admin | Published: October 25, 2009

Links for October 24th through October 25th: Big Cellphone Makers Shift to Android Platform From Google – NYTimes.com – Android is on only 1.8 percent of smartphones worldwide, according to Gartner, and Windows Mobile software still dwarfs Android. But Microsoft is slipping. The percentage of smartphones using the Windows Mobile system has plummeted to 9.3 [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .uk, 1984, android, camera, crowdsource, infosec, infrastructure, opensource, phone, public, real-time, search, socialnetwork, surveillance, surveillancecamera, twitter, verizon, whitehouse | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 17th through October 18th

By admin | Published: October 18, 2009

Links for October 17th through October 18th: FT.com / Arts / Visual Arts – A fascination with Polaroid photographs – When the great Hungarian photographer André Kertész lost his wife Elizabeth to cancer in 1977, he suffered a period of intense withdrawal close to a breakdown. For some time he remained in his apartment, just [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, allsabotage, art, beautiful, de-anonymization, electronica, film, infosec, instant, kertesz, label, lupefiasco, music, mystery, netflix, photographer, photography, polaroid, sad, television | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 12th through October 13th

By admin | Published: October 13, 2009

Links for October 12th through October 13th: Later Viewings of Shows on DVRs Brighten Ratings – The ratings released Monday include playback over seven days. As Mr. Poltrack pointed out, any viewing of commercials taking place after three days is being delivered to advertisers free. Conventional wisdom is that viewers who record programs skip though [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged advertising, benchmark, cpm, dvr, email, facialrecognition, filter, government, information, inventory, milestone, ondemand, photography, ratings, socialmedia, socialnetwork, television, vod, wtf | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 4th from 10:18 to 20:34

By admin | Published: October 4, 2009

mediaeater links for October 4th from 10:18 to 20:34: Singularity Summit 2009: Thus Spake Kurzweil | Popular Science – Kurzweil's presentation left me with no doubt that he was on to something. But he, and everyone else who spoke at the conference, also left me with a strong belief that no knows what that something [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged artificial_intelligence, audience, commedesgarcons, corporateculture, fashion, funny, future, hollywood, infosec, latimes, legal, live, media, microsoft, music, neuroscience, newyorker, nyc, old, people, performance, personnel, press, publishing, raykurzweil, singularity, talen, technology, trendrr, youcantgohomeagain | Comments closed

Bookmarks for October 1st through October 3rd

By admin | Published: October 3, 2009

Links for October 1st through October 3rd: The Word ‘Curate’ No Longer Belongs to the Museum Crowd – NYTimes.com – “When given to opportunity to curate an evening of music, choosing the right bands is very similar to curating a museum,” Mr. Macdonald explained in an e-mail message. “Since I, the ‘curator,’ choose personnel based [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged analysis, behavioraltargeting, curate, demographics, facebook, feature, geo, infosec, lexicon, list, search, twitter | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 29th through September 30th

By admin | Published: September 30, 2009

Links for September 29th through September 30th: Now drivers’ details sold by DVLA are used in bizarre roadside adverts for Castrol | Mail Online – The Government’s controversial Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency has launched an investigation into how the car registrations of millions of motorists were sold for use by a giant oil firm. [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .uk, 2009, adoption, advertising, analytics, behavioraltargeting, business, data, datamining, government, identity, infosec, measurement, metrics, roi, socialmedia, statistics, surveillance, surveillancecamera, system:filetype:pdf, system:media:document, type:pdf, video | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 27th through September 28th

By admin | Published: September 28, 2009

Links for September 27th through September 28th: Social Networks May ‘Leak’ Personally Identifiable Information 09/28/2009 – The result, according to the report, is that most social networking site users "are vulnerable to having their … identity information linked with tracking cookies." For instance, an ad network could serve an impression to a Web user while [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged behavior, behavioraltargeting, datamining, dataprivacy, infosec, lbs, locationbased, marketing, media, mobile, pii, social, socialmedia, socialnetwork, technology, teens, trends, usage | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 24th through September 25th

By admin | Published: September 25, 2009

Links for September 24th through September 25th: Paramount COO Blames Drop.io, Boxee and Mininova for Piracy – He then proceeded to showcase how easy it is to get pirated content by going to two sites not on the Alexa list: Mininova and Drop.io. Mininova is “clearly an illegal web site,” according to Huntsberry, who proceeded [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged artist, bittorrent, brands, censorship, cloud, copyright, datamining, dataprivacy, dataset, documentation, drop.io, filesharing, filetrading, information, infosec, intellectualproperty, internet, lilyallen, media, music, netflix, news, p2p, paramount, socialmedia, technology, wtf | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 18th through September 20th

By admin | Published: September 20, 2009

These are my links for September 18th through September 20th: Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy – The Boston Globe – Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay. They [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .uk, analysis, anonymity, broadband, business, content, datamining, disintermediation, dmca, ethics, facebook, fcc, filetrading, government, identity, infosec, media, mit, multitask, p2p, politics, productplacement, publishing, regulation, research, socialmedia, statistics, television, usage | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 15th through September 17th

By admin | Published: September 18, 2009

These are my links for September 15th through September 17th: FT.com / Media – Google to offer hard copies of books – Through an arrangement with a printing company announced yesterday, Google will offer 2m out-of-copyright books that can be picked up or shipped from libraries, universities and other spots around the world. It has [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged .ca, books, budget, google, infosec, lbs, locationbased, locative, marketing, media, ondemand, publishing, ratings, serial, socialmedia, socialnetwork, statistics, storyline, tactics, television, tvshow | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 13th from 22:49 to 22:49

By admin | Published: September 13, 2009

These are my links for September 13th from 22:49 to 22:49: FTC Approves Final Consent Order Requiring Sears to Disclose the Installation of Tracking Software – Wiredset / Blogs / Mark Ghuneim – the software also monitored consumers' online secure sessions – including sessions on third parties' Web sites – and collected consumers' personal information [...]

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged behavioraltargeting, brands, infosec | Comments closed

Bookmarks for September 13th from 21:24 to 21:24