Hyper OM Just trying to stay calm

17Jan/120

Private Messages on Facebook? Why, Politico will count you, of course

Facebook is like a minefield. And an active one as well. As soon as you relax a bit and don’t try to trawl the net about their new “initiatives” and something is already beeping and blinking under your foot, ready to explore. This time it’s the “sentiment analysis” that is being sold to Politico for…

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3Dec/112

Carrier IQ: poor little victim of carrier’s desires (NOT)

Sometimes when I read TechCrunch I’m not sure if they’re just trolling or accidentally “omit” certain aspects of story. You have probably seen enough Carrier IQ news everywhere — how it’s capable of recording everything on your Android phone but choses to only “help carriers to improve service”, how Apple turned out to also have…

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9Dec/100

Microsoft strikes at marketing dreams, shows users good side

Microsoft’s IE 9 blog has an article about new tracking control, and some preliminary information on how it will be implemented (primarily with “allow” and “deny” regular expressions). And this gives me a hope that at least this department is interested in helping users first, and making money later. Here are my thoughts on “do…

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