What does your cell phone know about you? Well, a fair bit according to researchers at MIT. For instance, they claim they can divine, among other things:
- how happy and productive you are
- your social status
- your social group
Fundamentally this is just an extension of any form of data mining - take a large amount [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Reality Mining
Published July 31st, 2008 in Profiling, Statistics, data mining and geotargeting. 0 CommentsEarlier I said that 50 billion videos were viewed online in February 2008, and even that I think is just a U.S. figure. Now with seesmic et al, people are getting up every morning and saying “hello” to the handful of people who are also trying out the new service, and who knows where that [...]
Geo-tagging, location-based social networking, UPS gps-tracking - the internet is more alive all the time with geographically based data, and I think it’s a great thing.
Back in “the day” (1995-2000), serving someone a version of a home page based on their location (matched against a database of IP numbers) was state-of-the-art, and really wasn’t always [...]
Google search engineers hit the new milestone of 1 trillion unique URLs, a number which is growing at “several billion per day”. Even with ignoring duplicates, and assuming a lot of pages get shelved as unimportant (endless calendar day pages, empty or forgotten pages, etc.), that’s a lot of content. That’s 166 URLs for each person on the [...]
The “funky stew of social networks” (a quote from the recent seesmic entry via YouTube, as below), and the steadily rising drone of chit-chat over twitter, seesmic, indeti.ca and a myriad other services is getting to fever pitch. (If a stew can be feverish). So much so, this guy is writing a book about it called [...]
It’s probably a deeply human shortcut, but we really often want to know what’s the most POPULAR thing, in whatever category we’re looking at. So i thought I’d do that quickly on a couple of sites. Right now, this is the most popular presentation in english on slideshare with half a million views:
Death by PowerPoint
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New Media Age and PC Pro both lead their most recent issues with stories covering the recent demise - and more recent rebirth - of Phorm. Yes, the people who plan to spy on your every web site visit by sitting between you and the internet at your ISP. A lot of screen inches have [...]
