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    Catching up - link dump

    Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

    I’ve been incredibly busy lately, and need to quickly catch up on some recent items of note:

    Siva Vaidhyanathan has launched a new blog for his forthcoming book, “The Googlization of Everything“…
    …while Cory Doctorow provides his fictional vision of Google at its most evil extreme, working with Homeland Security to monitor and track citizens. My favorite […]

    Microsoft Seeks to Use Application and Hard Drive Data to Sell Ads

    Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

    Taking contextual advertising to the next logical level, it has been reported that a recent patent filing indicates Microsoft want to develop an advertising framework that uses applications and data on one’s computer, rather than one’s actions on the Web, to provide context for triggering ads. Imagine writing a letter in Word and having the […]

    Google’s Peter Fleischer is Dangerously Misleading on Privacy and Personalized Search

    Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

    I’m supposed to be on vacation this week, but felt compelled to blog about this…
    There has been increased attention lately about Google’s data retention policies and the impact its drive towards personalization might have on user privacy. In response, one of Google’s chief privacy lawyers, Peter Fleisher, whose opinion I normally have high regard for, […]

    Consumers Willing to Trade Privacy for Personalization, Survey Says

    Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

    A new study by ChoiceStream, a (surprise!) provider of online personalization products, announces their latest personalization survey reveals an increasing number of web users are willing to provide personal information in order to receive personalized services. From the summary at EContent:
    According to the survey, the number of consumers willing to provide demographic information in exchange […]

    SEM on Search & Consumer Privacy

    Thursday, November 9th, 2006

    Gord Hotchkiss, the president of a search engine marketing firm, writes what at first appears to be a thoughtful and reflective essay on how the rise of behavioral targeting within the search engine advertising market (his bread and butter):
    The mechanisms are already in place for search engines to track your online behavior. Tool bars, mini […]

    Google’s Persistent & Sticky Memory

    Saturday, September 2nd, 2006

    Blogging has been light lately as I’m busy (a) finalizing details for the Identity & Identification in a Networked World symposium at NYU, (b) working out the logistics for my upcoming research trip to Europe (which now also includes a stop at Aalborg University in Denmark), and (c) trying to make some progress on the […]


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