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Speaking Of Creepy Location Features: Google’s Opt-Out Latitude Alerts

The past couple of days have seen some brouhaha over location privacy issues. Please Rob Me brought up the potentially troubling issue of tweeting out your location updates (and Foursquare responded). But actually, Google is doing something that’s perhaps even creepier.
While their Google Location Alerts feature is not new (it started beta testing in November [...]

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Sat, February 20 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Betty Goes Boop: Cc: Betty To Be Reborn As Threadbox

As a product, Cc: Betty was a good idea. Fundamentally, the goal was organize group email threads in a way that makes them more manageable. From an execution perspective, it left a bit to be desired. And from a naming perspective, it left a lot more. Today, the company is announcing that both are changing.
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Fri, February 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments