Just read this (H/T Naked Capitalism). It’s really nothing terribly new for anyone who has worked in web development or studied the internet. In general, your IP Address can be narrowed down to a specific geographical region. Additionally, tracking cookies can know an awful lot about you. In this case, [x+1] uses either its own [...]
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Web Tracking and Data Analysis Privacy Concerns
Posted in Commentary, Computing on August 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Terminal Computing
Posted in Commentary, Computing on January 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Apple has revealed their iPad, which has launched various discussions of the utility of tablets. One of those conversations – highly tangential to the tablet discussion – was regarding computers as terminals rather than the current model of (mostly) locally hosted applications. Basically, you simply have a monitor at home and enough computing horsepower to [...]
How I Know I’m probably Not Reading the Same Thing Everyone Else Is
Posted in Commentary, Computing, tagged History of Myspace, Myspace on June 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was reading this article on the history of Myspace, and I came across this quote: “Using .NET is like Fred Flintstone building a database,” says David Siminoff, whose company owns the dating website JDate, which struggled with a similar platform issue. “The flexibility is minimal. It is hated by the developer community.” My first [...]
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