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Mark and his team have built an incredible tool which has customized every website out there for individuals. It has always been the case since the dawning of the World Wide Web that we would all go to the same site and get the same information. The flip side of this privacy story that some [...]

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Until about four months ago, I used FrontPage 2003 as my HTML editor. Shut up. Seriously, shut up. It was a wonderful program, despite being old. But I wanted to keep up with the times, and SeaMonkey is now my tool of choice for doing HTML. Some thoughts and tips, below. First of all, I’m [...]

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In all the coverage, noise, commentary and debate over the search warrant issued in connection with Gizmodo’s story about the iPhone 4, the key issue to me is simple: why is this being investigated by a high tech crime team? Scenario: I lose my iPhone after drinking at a bar. I can’t find it the [...]

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I’ve been using Foursquare for about three months, and I’ve grown addicted. It nicely fills that gap when I’m out and about between checking my email and checking Twitter: a Foursquare sandwich. Below, some thoughts about mayorships, badges, checking in as a search action and about the service in general. I Was The Mayor Of [...]

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Today, I logged into Facebook and got a huge, honking message saying they needed my birthday as a “security measure.” Then I got a second overlay message popping up right on top of that to make clear I really needed to enter it. Color me confused. I thought Facebook already had my birthday. In fact, [...]

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I’m always surprised at the stupidity of people who link spam on my blog. Let’s see. I write about search. I’m somewhat savvy to what link spam is. I regularly talk with the head of Google’s web spam fighting team, Matt Cutts. You really want to be spamming my blog? Seriously? You’re an idiot, if [...]

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I came close to killing my Facebook account this week. As I delved even deeper to the supposed privacy I have or don’t have on the service, I wondered why on earth I even have an account at all. And I kept thinking of Anil Dash’s post earlier this year, Google’s Microsoft Moment. Was this [...]

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Facebook’s challenge to me (and others), as it has tried to compete with Twitter, has been that so much of the user data it wants to share with the world as content to attract visitors and eyeballs has been tied up behind the the privacy barriers set by its own users. How do you get [...]

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Awesome. I do all this work writing about how to be found in search engines and social media, but I could have instead just waited for Best Buy to do it for me. From my email today, a pitch on how they’ll get me found: They don’t actually do it — a company called CloudProfile [...]

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So Google wants to speed up the web, to the degree of saying if your site isn’t fast enough, you might suffer a ranking penalty. I’m all for speed. So here’s a suggestion. Google, take a leadership role in developing a web tracking API, so I can have one script that does it all. Here [...]

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