Monday, March 10th, 2008
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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
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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
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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”
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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)
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you _need_ one since the last terms & conditions update!
(by JenSense)
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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.”
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