My Digital FootPrint

I have been on a search for a context button.  What is it and why do I want one? When writing about my, your, our digital footprints it has become obvious to me that just putting the date and time on a post is a bit of a nonsense.  It is far better to leave the date out as it ages the blog post and if it is old it may get skipped (why read old stuff).  However, when searching I want the date on articles so I can tell if current or relevant. Date ages me but what I do want, however, is a content button.  When someone comes to http://blog.mydigitalfootprint.com I think it would be good to have a button that says CONTEXT on each blog.  The button takes you to a service say from WSJ, Times, Guardian, NEWco etc  and provides key (contextual) stories of the day/ week/ month that are relevant to the blog.  It could be presented as images, text or  video, lists etc, but is a summary of what was happening about the time a blog was posted and hence ...

  http://www.wolframalpha.com/   Wolfram Alpha is a search engine, but it's not pretending to be Google, and it isn't trying to do "search". It's actually doing something more subtle: it's doing semantic search. It depends on data (trusted) and not keywords (crawl the web and index)   Google uses tweaked versions of its original "lots of people link to this page" algorithm. Wolfram Alpha is  closer to Wikipedia and is looking to distinguish between Ford, the car, and ford, the method of getting across a river as input and therefore deliver results that are of value.   Impact on Digital Footprints - Wolfram Alpha doesn't care as it is looking for facts and how it can be compared.  If this is future search, will privacy go away?   Excellent video from Ted Talks on what they are developing      

  A Digital Footprint is the record of your interactions with the digital world and how the data that is left behind can be exploited.    The interactions and data that create the digital footprint includes:-   -        The content a user leaves about themselves and the content that others leave about the user in the web. The user generated data and content includes blogs, comments left on public sites, photo’s or a profile up-loaded and content a user creates on a social networking site.  The content left by other is the move from a user as a single individual to that user being part of the social group.    -        Explicit data from the interactions a user has with the web. This is where a users activities is captured, the types of details captured include web pages viewed, the frequency of visits along with the intervals between them, clicks,  the time spent on each page, interactions with forms, landing pages, and downloadable content.  In reality every click, mouse move, keystrok...

  http://analytics.blogspot.com/2010/05/greater-choice-and-transparency-for.html Users can now opt out of being tracked around the web by Google Analytics, the tool I use to track traffic and trends on my websites, just after we discovered SSL secure search. Google Analytics has launched tools that allows users to opt out of having their information (inc IP address), sent to Google.  It is a simple browser plug-in for IE 7 or 8, Google Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox (no Opera or Safari yet) Google will always get user information in aggregate, from all those who use the web, which provides them with a satellite view of web activity.  Google tends to know more about a user’s activities across multiple sites than any individual site knows and can use the analysis of the data to improve services aka My Digital Footprint business model. So is this a preemptive strike before something else, or a tool providing some protection, or have Google run the numbers and predict that the...

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking

20 th June 2010 Google have a secure/ encrypted search https://www.google.com  - not working for .co.uk or from a mobile (yet) This allows you to search without your ISP knowing or being able in inspect.  Obviously Google does know what you are doing.  Walled garden or neat idea – still thinking