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Over on Hacker News, I noticed this headline: See what Google knows about you. Now that's a pretty compelling promise, so I clicked. It took me to this page: Ah, the Google ad preferences page. It's been a while since I've visited this place. It gives you a limited but...
For my third prediction of the year, I'm going with one just a tad bit less obvious than "Facebook will go public." There seems to be no doubt about that event occurring this year, though I've certainly heard intelligent folks argue that Facebook can and should figure out how to stay private. I've argued that…
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Jaron Lanier's You Are Not A Gadget has been on my reading list for nearly two years, and if nothing else comes of this damn book I'm trying to write, it'll be satisfying to say that I've made my way through any number of important works that for one reason or another, I failed to…
Way back in 2012 - four years ago in real time, three decades or so in Internet time - I predicted that Facebook would build an alternative to Google's AdSense based on its extraordinary data set. I was right, but...off by a few years. From Ad Exchanger: AdExchanger has learned Facebook Audience Network is one…