Newsweek is going digital-only in 2013, a move that will be felt most immediately in the newsmagazine category but which points to challenges facing the publishing industry overall.
One has to ask what this means for Time.
via Newsweek Goes Digital-Only | Adweek.
I have no idea why they decided that you need a dance routine to sell this but it’s the first time I’ve ever wanted to purchase a Windows product so it clearly worked… The Surface Movement – YouTube.
EU data regulators have told Google that it has to make changes to its new privacy policy due to “incomplete information and uncontrolled combination of data across services”.
The regulators, led by France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique (CNIL), have spent several months investigating the policy, which basically allows Google to mash up all its previous 60 policies into one document and grab data on folks from across their services.
via EU data bosses order Google to sort out privacy • The Register.
Sure, we’re all mildly suspicious about targeted advertising. But if your browsing habits indicate that you’re a raging homophobe who really thinks Obama is trying to force gay marriage down the throats of an unwilling public, as the ad in the top right reflects, maybe this is the kind of thing that could change your mind.
By the way, here’s a link to the video.
via Anti-Gay Advertisement In Worst Possible Place (PHOTO).
I have no idea what he was searching for when he ‘stumbled across’ it but someone should tell his girfriend 😉
Reese, Ian ? [email protected]
13:30 (21 hours ago)
to undisclosed recipients
Attn:
Ms. Rubiah Bashir, wishes to entrust her entire estate to you to set up a Charitable Foundation in honor of her late Husand (Late Dr. Abu Saud Bashir). Please contact her through her personal email address: [email protected]
I received a lovely (spam) email from ‘Laurette’ this morning. Although I’m tempted by the tequila I’m consigning this to the bin.
Laurette Khan ? [email protected]
01:57 (8 hours ago)
How’s it going pretty! 🙂
It’s Laurette.
If you are interested in spending great time in a company of funny, sex appeal woman then I am right before u!
I felt in love with ur pics and that’s why decided to send this mail! Think that u wouldn’t stay calm after checking up mine too.
So, I’m waiting for you to answer this mail and who knows we will go somewhere, drink some tequila, discuss different things and maybe I’ll invite u to visit my home! 😉
bing are rebranding from “the decision engine” and have chosen to have people search for the phrase “bing is for doing” sadly on their own site the auto-suggest feature suggests a lot of rather negative things before you complete your phrase. Among them ” bing is useless” and “bing is rubbish” – someone in their marketing team should really have checked that. Still slightly better than the first auto-suggest on google.
Back in February The Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights was formally unveiled in the US, and it endorses the ‘Do not track’ web browser functionality that already has the support of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL.
In many respects it’s similar to the existing cookie laws being implemented across Europe. The Bill comes at the same time as the European Union is preparing similar regulations. I believe the current cookie law is flawed but has the right ideas at it’s heart. Making end users decide on a website by website basis is painful for the website owners having to implement code to ensure this happens and painful for the consumer it seeks to protect by bombarding them with information and pop-ups they will probably never read or understand.
I think making use of existing technology in the browser is by far the most sensible solution. The browser can contain a list of sites the user is happy to share data with and by default it could reject information sharing until a user has actively chosen to share data.
This would be persistent which is another concern for me when considering the cookie law. If a consumer deletes his/her cookies then their preferences are deleted.
So in the interest of seeing how website owners could honour DNT (do not track) I searched in vain for a matrix of browser support for the functionality within browsers. Information is sparse. Some sites quote browser support for DNT coming in new releases, others states that the browser already supports it (although I’ve not managed to find how to switch it on) . Add to this confusion that individual browser manufacturers are implementing DNT support in different ways and there is a headache waiting to happen.
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Disclaimer: I currently work for AOL and work on privacy issues including the EU “cookie law”
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