Now he's watching every domain name I look up?
Google recently added a Public DNS service. For a good definition of DNS, check our new wiki. In short: DNS is how your computer figures out where a web server is located when you type in any web address by your computer, meaning: » Continue reading “Google’s Public DNS snaps up more of your browsing habits”
Ah. The Google Books fiasco. I’ve seen it in the news, have been quietly monitoring the situation, but I just read » Continue reading “Brin’s Foreshadowing of Google Books Privacy Policy”
A quick post regarding Yahoo! Analytics tracking parameters. Our conversion tracking software recently added support for Yahoo! Analytics tracking parameters, which, according to » Continue reading “Yahoo Analytics Tracking Parameters: Whoops”
I had to write after reading this article in the New York Times. In short, Google “sees” 92 percent of online traffic for the top 100 internet sites. Other big boys, Atlas (60%), Omniture, and Quantcast (54% – I assume combined) don’t even get » Continue reading “Google sees 92% of “top” web traffic”
Like hundreds of others, I have to respond to Eric Clemens Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet article on TechCrunch because it appears to be linkbait or flamebait, or worse. What follows is a summary and discussion of his arguments, most of which seem to ignore the past 14 years of internet evolution. » Continue reading “Summary of “Advertising is Failing” on TechCrunch”
This expression relates to the coal mining days when ventilation in coal mines was often insufficient, and mining was was a very dangerous and difficult task.
Coal miners would bring a canary with them. Canaries tend to be sensitive to methane and carbon dioxide and so when the canary died » Continue reading “Advertising is the Canary”
Score one for the users. Facebook changed their terms of service back to the pre-February-4th version.
If you want to share your thoughts on what should be in the new terms, check out our group Facebook Bill of Rights and Responsibilities.
Thanks to everyone who visited and participated in the discussion. It’s been quite a few days!
Yoink!
As I’ve become embroiled in the hulaballoo over Facebook’s Terms of Service changes on Sunday, there have been many discussions on Facebook (and off) concerning the concept of ownership.
Ownership, in the legal sense, related to “rights” over content. (Or Intellectual Property, in this case.) Photos, Images, Drawings, Music, anything you type into a web browser and submit.
» Continue reading “Facebook TOS “takes away” your ownership rights”
Damage Control
Mark Zuckerberg defended the recent change to Facebook’s TOS in a blog post recently. As much as I appreciate any response from Facebook regarding their lecherous move, his rebuttal has no merit whatsoever. As a co-founder of my own startup in the 90s (unfortunately, never anything close to the scale of the 500-lb gorilla that is Facebook), this post is simply damage control.
» Continue reading “Technical rebuttal of Mark Zuckerberg’s rebuttal to Facebook TOS change”
Facebook pulled a "Columbia House" on us
Well, as I’ve said in the past, you can’t expect to use free services and have any semblance of privacy.
Facebook updated their Terms of Service (TOS) yesterday and slipped in a little “extra” clause which » Continue reading “Facebook’s new TOS: We have rights to everything posted here, forever. Sorry!”
