Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

AOL: users can opt out of some ad targeting
Google: edit the search histories linked to their user names
Yahoo: a policy to obscure people’s ip addresses connected to search results
Microsoft does not link any of its visitors’ behavior to their user n

(tags: privacy nyt datacollection personalisation personalization profiling behaviouraltargeting yahoo google live.com advertising)

customizable and dynamic chart software libraries (no services):
Open Flash Chart
amCharts
Php / Swf Charts
Fusion Charts Free
Yahoo! UI Library: Charts
Flot
SAC
Similie
Plotkit
LibChart

(tags: visualization visualisation graphs libraries opensource list library resource webdevelopment webdesign)

Social network analysis of all MSN messenger chats in June 2006!
“this study is noteworthy for another reason: it gives a curious insight into the limitations of this kind of analysis: too much data! 30 billion IM conversations between 180 million people”

(tags: instantmessaging socialnetworking social_networking socialnetworkanalysis datamining im live.com microsoft @twitter)

Hair-raising: a freeware GMail archive utility turns out to harvest Google usernames/passwords.
A clear-cut case for Oauth, also for “private” usage by desktop applications….
(on Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror)

(tags: oauth oauth-usecase desktop windows authentication security gmail passwords @twitter)

you _need_ one since the last terms & conditions update!
(by JenSense)

(tags: adsense policy privacy privacystatement jensense sample @twitter)

Physical proximity (in the office) determines most what people get to know: “Location far outpaces other factors such as what projects people have worked on.., job title, internal email lists,colleges they attended or who has worked on code in the past.”

(tags: google predictionmarkets gossip collaboration knowledgemanagement km datamining @twitter informationflow)