In a New York Times article about the massive de-bugging effort Microsoft is undertaking to get their new Vista operating system released on time, mention is made that 450,000 users are testing the software, and that their computers are sending…
Month: October 2006
The Google YouTube Tango
In one corner, we have the Googlization of virtually every aspect of our online (and increasingly offline) activities, tracking your every move. In the other corner, we have the increased corporatization of Web 2.0, also interested in watching everything you…
I want my Google Data Privacy
Gene at Fred's House sounds like one of the multitude who are beginning to embrace the "Google lifestyle": I look around my desktop and I see Google Reader, Google Mail, Google Talk, Google Toolbar, Google Maps, Google Calendar, Google News,…
Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade
The FTC is holding a set of public hearings November 6-8 called Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, bringing together a diverse collection of scholars and practioners "to examine the key technological and business developments that will shape consumers' core…
United States v. Google?
Nick Carr wonders if, in the spirit of US v. IBM in 1969 and US v. MSFT in 1994, we'll eventually see an anti-trust case brought against Google. Google currently holds a dominant 44 percent share of the web search…
Bubble 2.0
Reacting to the Google-YouTube deal, Seth Finkelstein shares his thoughts on the structures of what he calls "Bubble 2.0." With some well-placed humor, Seth hits the nail squarely on the head, touching on some of my general concerns with this…
Yahoo! Time Capsule
Yahoo! Time Capsule, an immense internet collection of historical digital data, launched today. According to Yahoo!: For the next month, we'll be asking users from around the world to submit expressions around love, anger, fun, sorrow, faith, beauty, past, now,…
Google & YouTube
About the only news that could rival North Korea's announcement of a nuclear test is the fact that Google announced its intention to buy YouTube. Not surprisingly, my first reaction is concern over the incredible data-mining opportunity this represents for…
File under “Irony”
Right after the folks at Google bragged about their "Google Security Team," the company's official blog was hacked, and a fake blog post announced their decision to cancel the (controversial) "Click-to-Call" program. (screenshot here)
From Clickstream to Clickprint
Researchers at the Wharton School are examining the ability to identify unique users based merely on their browsing behavior, their clickstream data: Clickprints on the Web: Are There Signatures in Web Browsing Data? (PDF; 233 KB) We address the question…
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