The NSA is not the only one monitoring every move you make, every breath you take. In their desire to anticipate our wants and needs before we know them ourselves, the New York Times reports that major web companies–Yahoo!, Google, AOL (it’s still around? I’ll be damned)–are “gathering clues about the tastes and preferences of [...]
A story in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled NSA’s Domestic Spying Grows as Agency Sweeps Up Data (subscription required) reports that– According to current and former intelligence officials, the spy agency now monitors huge volumes of records of domestic emails and Internet searches as well as bank transfers, credit-card transactions, travel and telephone records. The [...]
Saturday, December 29, 2007
Legal Blog Watch has a brief post about the threat of the Google trademark passing into common usage, or going generic. There’s nothing Google can do about us regular folks using Google as a verb–”I Googled that guy and he turned out to be a creep”–or as a substitute for the noun “search.” Those are [...]
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
In the blur of class preparation, reading papers, meetings with students, social engagements, workouts, and late-night Patriots games my desktop has become jammed with articles and ideas. Since I can’t go back in time I’ll clear the slate with these brief posts and try to get back in posting rhythm. First, Facebook Founder Finds He [...]
Friday, November 30, 2007
Maybe Mark Zuckerberg’s youth–he’s 23–explains Facebook’s ham-fisted schemes to weave its users’ personal information into skeins of gold. I don’t believe his purposes are nefarious. As Facebook Beacon and Facebook Social Ads show, he does have a knack for letting dollar signs get ahead of his judgment. He is developing a skill for reversing field [...]
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Why The Wisdom of Crowds Provides Feeble Tech Support I’ve been trying to run down the answer to a problem I encountered entering events to secondary Google calendars. The problem’s details aren’t important for this post and, in any event, it has been resolved. The passive voice is intentional; I’m not certain what solved the [...]
The Software Information and Industry Association (SIIA) announced the Ten Most Significant eCommerce Developments of the Past Decade. They are: Google (Sept. 1998) Broadband Penetration of US Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004) eBay Auctions (Launched Sept. 1997) Amazon.com (IPO May 1997) Google Ad Words (2000) Open Standards (HTML 4.0 released – 1997) Wi-Fi (802.11 [...]