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Archive for April, 2010
On privacy-risks of location-based networks, again
Posted by Marco in Privacy, Technology on 08/04/2010
A few days ago I blogged about location-based services and their privacy risks and implications.
I was not that wrong, apparently, if you read this scary article about what happened to people on Foursquare.
Now I also understand why social networks like Facebook have not yet rolled out location-based features which could kill, in under two seconds, Foursquare, Gowalla & co.: it would be a boomerang for them, so don’t expect features like this to appear soon in the wild.
Interesting application of wisdom-of-the-crowd intelligence
Posted by Marco in News, Science, Technology on 03/04/2010
Accordingly to the article linked above, there is actually some collective intelligence in the internet to be gathered from the so-called “wisdom-of-the-crowd”.
Actually, I start thinking: what would happen if there was a better way to tap in real-time into what people are searching on Google? Probably it would be possible to predict stock-market fluctuations, that would not be that hard…
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