My Digital FootPrint

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Harvesting the data we submit to the social web and using it to make a judgement about how “we” feel.  We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs and every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved. I wonder how it changes with the announcement of a Royal Engagement? Have a play at their web site You can buy the Book  An Almanac of Human Emotion: Sep Kamvar and Jonathn ...

    Some interesting correspondence following yesterdays post about "Being a professional and having social anonymity is a crime" These images are my response to "How to 'hang' yourself in public and why we should hide" You can do it your self (or with the aid of some enemies) You can present your achievements in a public place You can do something stupid You can misunderstand the term Within the context of a digital footprint why is this important.   Digital footprints are about what you say about yourself and what others say about you. You can control what you say about your self You probably are unaware of what data you have provided about yourself and to who and who they will use it You don't control what others say about you (unless they break the law) You have no idea what data there is out there that links to you from your network   Given this, behave like a professional and you will probably have a digital footprint to be proud of which describes...

    Some interesting correspondence following yesterdays post about "Being a professional and having social anonymity is a crime" These images are my response to "How to 'hang' yourself in public and why we should hide" You can do it your self (or with the aid of some enemies) You can present your achievements in a public place You can do something stupid You can misunderstand the term Within the context of a digital footprint why is this important.   Digital footprints are about what you say about yourself and what others say about you. You can control what you say about your self You probably are unaware of what data you have provided about yourself and to who and who they will use it You don't control what others say about you (unless they break the law) You have no idea what data there is out there that links to you from your network   Given this, behave like a professional and you will probably have a digital footprint to be proud of which describes...

    Some interesting correspondence following yesterdays post about "Being a professional and having social anonymity is a crime" These images are my response to "How to 'hang' yourself in public and why we should hide" You can do it your self (or with the aid of some enemies) You can present your achievements in a public place You can do something stupid You can misunderstand the term Within the context of a digital footprint why is this important.   Digital footprints are about what you say about yourself and what others say about you. You can control what you say about your self You probably are unaware of what data you have provided about yourself and to who and who they will use it You don't control what others say about you (unless they break the law) You have no idea what data there is out there that links to you from your network   Given this, behave like a professional and you will probably have a digital footprint to be proud of which describes...

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do ...

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do ...

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do ...

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do ...

In the book " My Digital Footprint " eight business models were explored, this blog is an update to model 5 . If the balance of value is not already in favour of web companies, as they barter free services for your privacy and data it soon will be, as they need more data to continue their growth and seek differentiation but are unable to offer more in return.  The blog presents that there is now a continuous test on the consumer resolve for privacy, the unmarked boundaries of private and thresholds of liberty as web companies find routes to extract more information on you, without you realising. Content Creation leads to Value Creation In March 2010 Facebook was estimated to be worth $11.5bn, Twitter $1.4bn, Linkedin $1.3bn and Google $170bn. But why? In simple terms these web companies and many more like them, consist of millions of users creating and sharing large amounts of content which is subsequently monetised through advertising to create these public valuations. ...

In the book " My Digital Footprint " eight business models were explored, this blog is an update to model 5 . If the balance of value is not already in favour of web companies, as they barter free services for your privacy and data it soon will be, as they need more data to continue their growth and seek differentiation but are unable to offer more in return.  The blog presents that there is now a continuous test on the consumer resolve for privacy, the unmarked boundaries of private and thresholds of liberty as web companies find routes to extract more information on you, without you realising. Content Creation leads to Value Creation In March 2010 Facebook was estimated to be worth $11.5bn, Twitter $1.4bn, Linkedin $1.3bn and Google $170bn. But why? In simple terms these web companies and many more like them, consist of millions of users creating and sharing large amounts of content which is subsequently monetised through advertising to create these public valuations. ...

In the book " My Digital Footprint " eight business models were explored, this blog is an update to model 5 . If the balance of value is not already in favour of web companies, as they barter free services for your privacy and data it soon will be, as they need more data to continue their growth and seek differentiation but are unable to offer more in return.  The blog presents that there is now a continuous test on the consumer resolve for privacy, the unmarked boundaries of private and thresholds of liberty as web companies find routes to extract more information on you, without you realising. Content Creation leads to Value Creation In March 2010 Facebook was estimated to be worth $11.5bn, Twitter $1.4bn, Linkedin $1.3bn and Google $170bn. But why? In simple terms these web companies and many more like them, consist of millions of users creating and sharing large amounts of content which is subsequently monetised through advertising to create these public valuations. ...

In the book " My Digital Footprint " eight business models were explored, this blog is an update to model 5 . If the balance of value is not already in favour of web companies, as they barter free services for your privacy and data it soon will be, as they need more data to continue their growth and seek differentiation but are unable to offer more in return.  The blog presents that there is now a continuous test on the consumer resolve for privacy, the unmarked boundaries of private and thresholds of liberty as web companies find routes to extract more information on you, without you realising. Content Creation leads to Value Creation In March 2010 Facebook was estimated to be worth $11.5bn, Twitter $1.4bn, Linkedin $1.3bn and Google $170bn. But why? In simple terms these web companies and many more like them, consist of millions of users creating and sharing large amounts of content which is subsequently monetised through advertising to create these public valuations. ...

Thinking further about the Greenpeace cloud paper  where their emphasis is on the type of electricity production that powers the cloud. In my view they should open up another attack angle that will have a different effect.  They rightfully acknowledge that efficiency gains from technology advancement will reduce energy requirement but I don't think they look at what is possible with a bit of old fashion price/demand theory. I agree that one prime focus of attack should be the move to sustainable energy and away from coal/gas, however, I would argue that an equally important focus should be on straight forward reduction.  But how do you encourage less use of a free cloud service.  Every new consumer of cloud applications or new user adds new demands for computing, storage and power, every active existing user also increases demands and all in-active users, have an energy consumption that remains a constant bleed on the system.  The area where I think there is some thought ...

I thought it was time to revisit Spokeo http://www.spokeo.com and   http://pleaserobme.com/ - as you can now find out if they are out and worth robbing, adding Google maps street level enables you to plan the escape route. PleaseRobMe has made its point, however, Spokeo has not moved on. Trying a few friends in the US, I personally found the data was inaccurate (white and not back sort of level) or hopelessly out of date and a few have managed to hide their data. Spokeo is not new launched in 2005 (USA) says it is a search engine specialized in organising people-related information from phone books, social networks, marketing lists, business sites, and other public sources. Most of their data is publicly available on the Web.  For example, you can find people’s name, phone, and address on Whitepages.com, and you can get home values from Zillow.com.  Spokeo’s algorithm can piece together (however not that well reading some of the reviews and my test) the...

Dark Screen When writing my digital footprint I updated the Six screen’s of life work originally developed for mobile web 2.0 (extract on read/write web)    However, I have now realised that I missed one out. What is said in summary is that for the most part, we are consumers of content. In our daily lives we consume professionally created, produced and edited content from traditional and new media providers on our ‘si x screens of life’. These screens are divided into two broad categories, big screens and small screens, each with three subgroups as per figure 2. Figure 2 :  6 screens of life   Both for big and small screens, the user has traditionally been a passive receiver of content (content has been broadcast to the user) or the user has been seen as a member of a carefully controlled and managed audience (e.g. voting) – but not as a primary creator of content. For instance: both TV and cinema need users to consume (view); and a website needs users to consu...

image from the BBC Words are both a blessing and a curse; phrases are fashionable, colloquial and always misinterpreted.  Today at the dentist I was told I had a “communication” and that got me thinking about how we use the same word in different professions and how the same phrase communicates different things depending on location and intent.  My interest here is “Digital Footprint” and here are the most common interpretations I found today…. Digital Footprint is an term that helps educate our children about the dangers of being on-line; followed by the following advise; if in doubt don’t do it and if you do it will be found (probably the most popular use) Digital Footprint describes the data you leave in the Internet from your keyboard and mouse. Digital Footprint is the data you leave in the cloud from you all your interactions, creating and consuming, passive and active with all digital devices. Digital Footprints describe you...

Telecom.TV asked this week “Who owns the clickstream? Perhaps we all do! Whilst we all think we do own the click stream, it is not so clear. The click stream is also only a tiny proportion of the data that you can get as a company. The issue raised about Trust in the article is an important, but it should have asked what we trust companies for. There is a grey area between what we trust a supplier for, what we would trust them for, what by law they could do and what I expect them to do. This is a mind field and opens up opportunities for growth companies who want to take a leadership position where the major brands are too concerned about protection and governance. Telecom.TV article