AOL Apologizes for Posting User Search Data
Friday, August 11th, 2006
AOL has apologized for inadvertently posting on the Internet search data of 658,000 AOL members that used the proprietary software to conduct searches over a three month period. The data, which has since been taken down, had been collected for academic researchers and did not directly connect search terms to users’ names.
Source: www.technewsworld.com
AOL’s data sketch sometimes scary picture of personalities searching Net
AOL this week accidentally gave us a glimpse of what it’s like to read minds, and now we have to figure out if we want to. AOL is getting hammered because a staffer, without authorization, posted on the Internet the millions of search words typed in by 658,000 users over a three-month period.
Source: www.usatoday.com
Enterprise 2.0 Think Tank Session
Participating today in a think tank session on Enterprise 2.0 hosted by SAP. When I asked if the event was [ x ] bloggable, they agreed, but also gave the ability for someone to say something is explicitly Not Bloggable. Susan Duggan from SVWIC came up with a great way to express this: NB! blah, blah, redacted, etc. The first session was a talk by Jeff Nolan , which is inherently
Source: www.webpronews.com