My Digital FootPrint

http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.10340 Karen Lawrence Oqvist http://virtualshadows.wordpress.com/ “Web 2.0 and social networking sites are challenging traditional notions of privacy and security in cyberspace, at a time when surveillance and tracking in the real world have reached endemic proportions. As the gap between virtual and reality becomes increasingly blurred by current and emerging technologies, the way we communicate and interact with one another is changing as well. But what are the implications for our privacy, and what impact will this have on our safety and security? "Virtual Shadows" provides a fascinating glimpse into this brave new Information Society. It covers a diverse range of topics which span the 4 key areas of privacy (information, bodily, communications and territorial), where the rules of play have not yet been clearly defined, much less understood” In truth this book is for someone who knows nothing about privacy, identity, t...

From the inside of the cover …. “You are what you share.  That is the ethic of the world being created by YouTube and MySpace, Wikipedia and Facebook. We-Think is a rallying call for the shared power of the web to make society more open and egalitarian. We-Think reports on an unparalleled ware of collaborative creativity as people from California to China devise ways to work together that are more democratic, productive and creative. This guide to the new culture of mass participation and innovation is a book like no other, it started first online through a unique experiment in collaborative creatitiy involving hundreds of people across the globe. The generation growing up with the web will not be content to remain spectators. They want to be players and this is their slogan “We-Think therefore we are” http://www.wethinkthebook.net/home.aspx A very good book for those who are thinking outside of the Box.  I like the approa...

The economic climate means that there is a focus on costs and revenue at the expense of opportunity and innovation.  “In the bank” is winning over even “in the bag”, but it is also true that you cannot cost cut your way out of recession, you need to trade. Balancing future and survival is as much an executive skill today as at any time in corporate history. Companies who are taking the opportunity to adopt networked technologies, which have been developing over the last 5 years and in our view are starting to become stable enough to show promise, are likely to seriously enhance their ability to offer better services, provide unique customer experience, be more responsive, delivery on service promises and keep costs down, during these difficult times and the upturn. A key driver for these pioneering companies in the adoption curve is how they handle and analyse customer and social graph data.  To explain this concept, this Viewpoint focuses on “T...

This is a site to help you "delete your account"  - however this does not delete your data or your digital footprint..... http://deleteyouraccount.com/ This site provides a guide to resetting some factory defaults on your mobile before you recycle it - again take care, deep techies can still recover some of the data, but mr joe public will not be able to. http://www.hardresetguide.com/

Is "freedom" like "trust"?   Can we replace the word boundary with experience?

In the good old days there was the phone book.  A list of all phone numbers in your area.  You could flick through this open, public record and find out where someone lived and their phone number.  Easy, simple and in black and white delivered to your door. Back in 2006 when Ajit Jaokar and I wrote "Mobile Web 2.0" we created an idea about "I am a tag and not a number" - which was to become a bedrock of PhoneBook 2.0 thinking.  The thinking was that phone books will die as the phone number is dead; you will become what others tag you as.  This move would allow phonebooks to move on from a disconnected phone number and become an connected action and activity delivering: book a meeting, message, call, IM, find and locate, In the old model you trusted the company who printed the phone book to remove (in the next addition) your details if you so wanted.  However, once printed there was always a copy at the library if you wanted older ...

In the good old days there was the phone book.  A list of all phone numbers in your area.  You could flick through this open, public record and find out where someone lived and their phone number.  Easy, simple and in black and white delivered to your door. Back in 2006 when Ajit Jaokar and I wrote "Mobile Web 2.0" we created an idea about "I am a tag and not a number" - which was to become a bedrock of PhoneBook 2.0 thinking.  The thinking was that phone books will die as the phone number is dead; you will become what others tag you as.  This move would allow phonebooks to move on from a disconnected phone number and become an connected action and activity delivering: book a meeting, message, call, IM, find and locate, In the old model you trusted the company who printed the phone book to remove (in the next addition) your details if you so wanted.  However, once printed there was always a copy at the library if you wanted older ...