Permanence

We have no idea, do we, of where this stuff will be in the future?

“The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.”

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Trust me, I have an IP address

I spent the day today at the Wealth of Networks II conference, the agenda of which was set out as the next-generation of the Internet.

It was a good event and the organisers managed to bring together some top-rate speakers in a great venue with rock-solid internet, for once. And it was

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Free Tickets for Behavioural Targeting

I have five free tickets for the NMK Behavioural Targeting event, next Tuesday evening. We’ll be looking at the likes of Phorm, Specific Media and so forth and the opportunities they hold for advertisers and publishers, and also the threat to privacy that they may or may not represent.

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Things You Shouldn’t Do With the BNP Membership List

1. Send it to everyone you know.

2. Make a Google Maps mash-up out of the data.

Much of socialmedialand was rubbing its hands with glee this morning at the news that the British National Party’s membership list had been leaked

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The Next Next Big Thing

…is Who 2.0. That’s according to an interview with Tim O’Reilly, the man who popularised Web 2.0. On Basque news site eitb24, he said that he thinks:

…certain kinds of databases are going to become really big and really useful. We are just in the early stages, digital identity doesn’t really work

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Googling Me, Googling You. Ah-ha

Online privacy and reputation is going to be big business over the next few years. The last couple of weeks have seen the beta launch of both London’s Garlik and US-based Reputation Defender. Both of these subscription services offer to scour the web for you, find every trace of your name and

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Vox Populi?

Nice interview on Techcrunch about Vox, the new social network/blog platform from SixApart. I have to confess that I didn’t really see the point of Vox when it first appeared, given the existence of all the other social networks out there. SixApart’s Andrew Anker explains:

More importantly to Vox, we believe

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MyBlogLog is Watching You

The out-of-beta relaunch of MyBlogLog was covered twice today on Techcrunch. On the front page Marshall Kirkpatrick notes that the site functions as an automated social network around your blog using cookies to show the members visiting your site and allowing users to mine information about what sites they

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