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How to Protect Your Online Privacy
There is no quick fix for online privacy protection. Unfortunately the internet is not an opt-in universe where the user has the power to check a box of whether or not to allow data tracking companies to track her clicks across the web.
What most people don’t realize is that a visit to one article on a site like CNN actually allows doz [...]
How Many Apps Do You Actually Use on ...
Apps are awesome, right? They’ve changed our lives and some expect computing to move to being completely app based at some point. But how many do you actually use?
If the stats are correct, you use 10 or less on a regular basis, regardless of whether you’ve downloaded 15 or 150. In fact, a Pew Research study revealed that 68% o [...]
How Goldman Sachs Investing in Facebo...
The announcement that Goldman Sachs invested $500 million in Facebook, giving it a market valuation of $50 billion sent ripples across the media. With this deal including Goldman helping Facebook to raise an additional $1.5 billion, and noting that Facebook has raised $800 million over five rounds of funding, it is official that social netwo [...]
Why You Should Opt-Out of the Interne...
Yesterday the Federal Trade Commission took the first steps towards creating a Do Not Track feature to allow internet users to opt-out of having companies obtain data on their online surfing habits. This mechanism is being designed in the spirit of the Do Not Call registry that regulates the activities of telemarketers.
On the surface this [...]
Instant: It Isn’t Just for Coff...
This article was originally posted in the Huffington Post.
Last week was the week of ‘instant.’ It began with the launch of Google Instant, which added a new evolution to online searches. And then almost instantly, we saw the birth of Google Instant : Maps, Google Instant: Images, YouTube Instant, Etsy Instant, iTunes Instant, an [...]
AT&T is to iPhone What Ice Cream...
AT&T sent a letter to customers yesterday that has lit the AT&T Facebook page up with hate mail.
Lets start with the idiocy of AT&T talking at their customers about what they plan to do while ignoring the 3 year tsunami of complaints that we have lodged at them. We can end with the fact that you have to hit the “Like” button o [...]
Facebook Places: To Check In or Not t...
This article was originally published at Oxstein Labs.
Facebook Places has been live for almost two weeks now. Have you tried it out? Do you plan to? Do you care? Only 19% of the worldwide cell phone market is smart phones and the word on the street is that Foursquare users are happy with Foursquare.
That will undoubtedly change. Foursq [...]
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