As I’ve made abundantly clear over the past several days, just about every service that has anything to do with location is launching something at the SXSW festival which starts tomorrow in Austin, Texas. Don’t believe me, here’s a small sampling (Foursquare, Gowalla, Loopt, Whrrl, Plancast, Brizzly, Twitter). So, how are you going to wrap [...]
Tags: Austin Texas, Bump, Flickr, Google, Google Map, Hyperlink, Launch, Location Data, Logos, Ly, Privacy Implications, Real Time, Sampling, Sxsw Festival, Thumbnail, Time Location, Twitter, User Names, Venue Name
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A month ago, Jason Calacanis went on a rant about why everyone should boycott comScore. He felt they were using sketchy tactics to bully people into their pay-to-play model for measuring web analytics. He also noted that their free competitors like Quantcast, Google, and Compete would soon eat their lunch. Both Quantcast and Google (Analytics) [...]
Tags: Ben Edelman, Domain Whois, Google, Installation Sequence, Internet Users, Jason Calacanis, Monitoring Service, Pageviews, Personal Data, Privacy Advocate, Privacy Implications, Purported Benefits, Quantcast, Rant, Traffic Data, Traffic Monitoring, Upromise, Web Analytics, Web Browsing, Web Traffic
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