I am pleased to announce that selected papers from the “Identity and Identification in a Networked World” graduate student symposium held at New York University in September have been published in a special issue of First Monday. Here are titles…
Category: Internet
Windows Live Local Virtual Earth and Privacy in Public
A post on Slashdot recalls the discovery of an SUV filming the streets of San Francisco: Today as we were biking around our neighborhood in a small city we saw a strange vehicle slowly driving around. It appeared to be…
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Fake (“Hot”) Friends for MySpace
Discourse.net discovered Fake Your Space, a service that for just 99 cents per month will provide users of MySpace and Facebook fake "hot" friends with custom messages. In their own words: FakeYourSpace is an exciting new service that enables normal…
On the Internet, everybody knows you’re a dog – Slate
Michael Kinsley has an amusing piece in Slate remarking on the fact that since so many people freely provide so much personal information on Web 2.0 and social networking sites, that now, On the Internet, everybody knows you're a dog:…
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Semantic Web now Web 3.0
The NYTimes reports on what they seem present as a new effort to "add a layer of meaning on top of the existing Web that would make it less of a catalog and more of a guide — and even…
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…
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…
Sanger to Fork Wikipedia into Citizendium
Larry Sanger, first editor-in-chief of Wikipedia, announced yesterday his plans to fork the project into a competitor to Wikipedia called The Citizendium. Sanger describes it as "an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance." The…
Grokster Site Warning Visitors, Collecting IPs
Eric Goldman recently visited Grokster's website at http://www.grokster.com and got the following stern warning: The United States Supreme Court unanimously confirmed that using this service to trade copyrighted material is illegal. Copying copyrighted motion picture and music files using unauthorized…
LonelyGirl15 ID’d through Amateur Data-Mining
It was recently revealed (confirmed?) that the popular online video diaries of LonelyGirl15 were not authentic, but a publicity stunt of entertainment folks linked to Hollywood talent agency CAA. Today, the real identity of LonelyGirl15 has also been revealed, mostly…
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