yahoo buys tumblr – promises the moon – and all i got was this crappy home page…
I guess cramming at that target to market ad code is taking a toll
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Here is today’s pearl of wisdom. If the 2-300 million folks connected did not pay their internet bills, you marketing assholes would be selling each other used cars. And as soon as everybody else gets fed up, you quick ones will be selling used cars. The slow ones will be asking about adding fries to that order.  ever have one of those days where you are just overmatched? I watch TV. Probably more than I should. One of the things the internet is good for is finding about TV shows. One of the sites I use daily is TV Line. They have a lot of official previews of episodes and upcoming shows. They post video from the major and minor networks. Most of them run fine, until you run ad blocking software. The theory of previews is to generate interest in shows to display ads to get you to buy shit you can probably do without. NBC has figured that they need to shove an Ad in your face before you see the preview. In FireFox you get to the NBC logo and then it just stops. IN chrome in private browsing mode, you lose 30 seconds of your life you will never get back to see a preview for a show you may or may not watch is really the height of arrogance. This photo tells that story  TV Line Chrome Private Browser Screen Capture But Wait There’s More! Here are the most recent cookies that TV Line attempted to set.
But Wait There’s More! Your so called Social Sites are tracking you too.
Those cute buttons for facebook twitter google+1. Trackers. ScoreCard Research Beacon is interesting being called 6 times. Maybe the webmaster is lazy. If you wonder why your surfing is so slow you can thank the trackers above. All this crap happens before the page loads. What the world needs is a browser plugin that accepts cookies, and any other information scripting tries to get, rewrites them to Zeros and ships them back. Fill enough servers and data miners with no information, they will go home. Bonus Link: It’s a start.  the cloud The Cloud THE CLOUD! Yep Boys and Girls, The CLOUD!!, the latest nonsense from the freaks and geeks inhabiting the basements of Software Marketers, Social Media and their red headed stepchildren, the Internet Identity folks. In a nutshell cloud computing means having files located on a computer somewhere else and making them available to you wherever, and whenever you are connected to the Internet. The theory is that having your files located in the cloud, your company can be more productive, folks can work from anywhere, and hand over the hassle of managing your companies data, applications, and business information, both public and private to a third party who promises to make them secure, lower the cost of ownership, and have rainbows shooting out of your ass at the next shareholders meeting. Microsoft has a strong vested interest in getting companies into the cloud as they are trying to move the core office applications to the internet like Office 365, moving everyone they can to Outlook.com in an attempt to keep the revenue up as personal computing sales have dropped, Windows 8 can be characterized as either Vista2, or BOB 3,(BOB 2 being Windows Me) depending on how far back your memory goes. Subscriptions are the new green at Microsoft. They are not alone. Google, Amazon, and others are offering you the cloud also. Think about having your companies data on a computer located outside of your control, on the internet, which has a nasty habit getting broadcast far outside your network. Can you say Wikileaks? Doc Searls who I know and love, has spent probably longer on the web than I have, whose work on Digital Identity and VRM is second to none, recently introduced the concept of the Personal Cloud. Doc’s perspective on Digital Identity and VRM Vendor Relationship Management is filtered by his earlier life owning and running an Advertising Agency. He views the Internet as a place where we should be in charge of our Digital Identity and through that mechanism also Manage Relationships with Vendors aks companies that want to sell us stuff. We just disagree on how to manage those relationships. My response to VRM is ARM aka Advertiser Rights Management [1] [2]. Block them all and find what you are looking for yourownself. Doc and I agree that our digital identity has to be under our control. Establishing a Bombproof Digital Identity is an enormously thorny problem, technically. The best and brightest are working on it. The Cloud are your files located somewhere else addressable across the internet. Sort of like this website. More on that in a minute. Which brings us to The Personal Cloud. Let me see….. Holy Crap Pixel Man! See! we already have personal clouds. Mine probably isn’t as fluffy as most, but hey its mine.
“Encrypted Media Extensions” is a proposal to allow DRM style proprietary types of content into the web. Dumb Move. Read More: Don’t let the myths fool you: the W3C’s plan for DRM in HTML5 is a betrayal to all Web users. Take Action: We already have too many bad media extensions like Flash, Java, and Silverlight, which constantly put users at risk with constant security updates. It is time to get off this treadmill. A frightening piece of legislation from Britain. Here is a tidbit:
Yep! Everyone of those sharing sites like Facebook, Instagram, and others where you just clicked Yes to the Terms and Conditions is now free to exploit what they just boiler plated previously. From Instagram:
I have written about this before, From Facebook:
Facebook Proposed Statement of Rights & Responsibilities, bullshit walks Take 2 Now it just remains to see how quickly the Social Media sites open up British offices to drive your property through this. |
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