Tag Archives: privacy

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May 11

Will The New Delicious Still Be … Delicious?

Posted on 4th May 2011 by Gary

Delicious is dead! Long live Delicious. Like a lot of Delicious users, I recently received a mail urging me to authorise the transfer of my Delicious account and bookmarks to the new service once ownership transfers from Yahoo! to AVOS. … Continue reading →

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Apr 11

Location’s “Ick Factor”; First iOS And Now Android

Posted on 23rd April 2011 by Gary

Two days ago I wrote about the “discovery” of a cache file on iOS devices that stores the position of cell towers and the associated media coverage surrounding this. Note that I use “discovery” in inverted commas here. As Sally … Continue reading →

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Nov 10

Another Category Of Place You Really Don’t Want To Check In To

Posted on 24th November 2010 by Gary

There are some places you really don’t want to check into using one of the many location based social networks. There’s a variety of suggestions of this nature on the web including funeral homes, an ex-partner’s house, jail or the … Continue reading →

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Oct 10

Does Location Need Some PR Love?

Posted on 19th October 2010 by Gary

In an interview with GoMo News earlier this year, I talked about “the Bay Area bubble”, this is the mind-set found in Silicon Valley “where a lot of the products and services coming out seem to think your user will … Continue reading →

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Aug 10

Facebook Places; Haven’t We Been Here Before?

Posted on 31st August 2010 by Gary

A week and a half ago Facebook finally launched their Places feature to a predictable media furore over location privacy, regardless of whether it’s justified or not and, to location industry watchers at least, a strong sense of deja vu. … Continue reading →

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