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,…
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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…
That horrid Google…On the prowl!
In 1913, Vincent Cartwright Vickers wrote The Google Book, a children's book full of fanciful birds, including one called a "google": The sun is setting -- Can't you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it is…
Debrief: Social Software and Web 2.0 seminar
I presented at the Social Software and Web 2.0: Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Research and Business seminar and workshop a few days ago at Aalborg University in Denmark. My talk, "The Panoptic Gaze of Web 2.0: How Web 2.0…
Unblinking Symposium
I just came across an amazing-looking multi-disciplinary symposium on privacy and surveillance at Berekely: Unblinking: New Perspectives on Visual Privacy in the 21st Century. The program is quite impressive, including Ian Kerr (who gave the keynote last week at our…
Light Blogging
Blogging has been light lately as I have been quite busy in "real life": I'm pleased to announce that the "Identity and Identification in a Networked World" graduate student symposium was a smashing success this past weekend. Well over 100…
Not Necessarily the Newsweek
Newsweek is doing its part to keep Americans up-do-date on the important news of the world. Here are the covers from three global editions of the current issue, followed by the American version: I'm not too worried about mis-information, though,…
Average home has more TVs than people
The AP reports that the average American home now has more television sets than people: There are 2.73 TV sets in the typical home and 2.55 people. Unbelievable. [via Jeremy Hunsinger]
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