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Ask Takes Your Privacy Seriously
There was an old story I was told as a kid about boiling a frog to death. As the story goes, you can’t boil a frog to death by dropping him in a pot of boiling water. But put him in cool water and bring the water to a boil, and he won’t know the…
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Marc Orchant, a Hero to Many
All this week, since I heard about the massive coronary that my friend, Marc Orchant, suffered last Sunday morning, I’ve been following the progress reports that Oliver Starr has been posting for the entire blogosphere. Unfortunately, the news tonight is not good. Marc has passed on from this earth leaving many of us on this…
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Operation: 1000 Subscribers
There is a major milestone approaching here at Technosailor, and since I don’t really feel like writing anything of any real substance tonight, I figure now would be a good time to point out that we are approaching 1000 RSS subscribers here at Technosailor. In fact, I’ve made it easier than ever to subscribe to…
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Now is Gone is Here
Good friend of mine and sometimes-columnist here at Technosailor, Geoff Livingston, is celebrating the launch of Now is Gone, the book he’s been working on for quite some time (it also has a blog associated with it as any good new media book does). Now is Gone is described as a “Primer on New Media…
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Zuckerberg, Quit Insulting Our Intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook has taken one more step in the Beacon war. As we’ve noted, Facebook is wrong to not fully make Beacon an opt-in program, partner companies are wrong for releasing customer data to Facebook and by the way I made a Firefox extension that will help consumers know…
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Toyota y sus Comerciales Poco Eticos
La semana pasada escribà un artÃculo sobre Toyota y el uso adecuado de la reputación de sus productos. Esta semana, Toyota vuelve a ser el tema… pero esta vez por el uso de publicidad poco ética. Cada persona, compañÃa o producto tiene lo que llamamos una cuenta de confianza (trust account). Hay acciones que resultan…
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Freakin' Beacon Firefox Extension
I took the dive into Firefox extension development today whipping out an answer to the Beacon is broke sentiment that is popping up all over the net, including here on this blog. This extension puts a little icon in the status bar that lights up in blue when on a page using Beacon technology. In…
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Companies Using Beacon Will Undoubtedly be Sued
Privacy policies. They are the walls of separation that protect users from the over-indulging nature of companies and provide strict legal protections for both the user and the company. Privacy policies are generally penned by lawyers who like writing obscure documents that do these things. Facebook Beacon, as we talked about, is a major privacy…