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    Google’s Cookie to have 2 Year Expiration (Because it is of little value after that time)

    Monday, July 16th, 2007

    Google announced today they are changing the expiration date of their cookie from 2038 (the latest possible date) to a rolling 2 year period. Once put into action, users who visit Google today, for example, will receive a cookie that expires on July 16, 2009. If that user never visits a Google website again, that […]

    Tracking Web Users with ClickTale

    Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

    Fellow PhD student Alice Marwick blogs about TechCrunch’s coverage of ClickTale, the latest in website surveillance tools:
    ClickTale shows you the full story: every mouse movement, every click and every scrolling action. By using ClickTale you will gain insights that will improve your website’s usability, enhance navigation, and increase effectiveness.
    Webmasters can add a small piece of […]

    CFP: Identity and Identification in a Networked World Graduate Student Symposium

    Friday, May 19th, 2006

    [I am one of the organizers the following graduate student symposium to be held this fall at NYU]
    CALL FOR PAPERS
    Identity and Identification in a Networked World:
    A Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium
    When: September 29-30, 2006
    Where: New York University
    Submission deadline: July 5, 2006
    Increasingly, […]

    Experimenting with a “StatCounter” counter on michaelzimmer.org

    Tuesday, January 10th, 2006

    To get a better sense of how michaelzimmer.org is being utilized, I have decided to experiment with a StatCounter counter.
    This was a difficult decision, being that StatCounter utilizes web cookies to help provide information about what IP addresses access this site and how. I’ve tried to address this concern in the official Privacy Policy for […]