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Bookmarks for November 28th through December 2nd

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 [...]

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Bookmarks through November 13th

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,” [...]

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Bookmarks for October 26th through October 31st

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 11th through October 15th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for September 28th through October 3rd

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for December 9th through December 12th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for December 6th through December 7th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for December 1st through December 4th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for November 22nd through November 29th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for November 15th through November 19th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for November 12th through November 15th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for November 9th through November 10th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for November 8th through November 9th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 29th through October 30th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 25th through October 26th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 24th through October 25th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 17th through October 18th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 12th through October 13th

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for October 1st through October 3rd

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for September 29th through September 30th

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. [...]

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Bookmarks for September 27th through September 28th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for September 24th through September 25th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for September 18th through September 20th

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 [...]

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Bookmarks for September 15th through September 17th

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

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

These are my links for September 13th from 21:24 to 21:24: FTC Approves Final Consent Order Requiring Sears to Disclose the Installation of Tracking Software Placed on Consumers’ Computers; FTC Approves Final Consent Order in Matter Concerning Enhanced Vision Systems, Inc. – According to the Commission, the software also tracked some computer activities that were [...]

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