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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/07/schmidt_on_privacy/

Google chief: Only miscreants worry about net privacy • The Regi

If you're concerned about Google retaining your personal data, then you must be doing something you shouldn't be doing. At least that's the word from Google CEO Eric Schmidt.

Early Access Release Channels ‎(Chromium Developer Documentation

http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel Chrome supports a number of different release channels. We use these channels to slowly roll out updates to users, starting with our close to daily Canary channel builds, all the way up to our Stable channel releases that happen every 6 weeks roughly. The release channels for chrome range from the most stable and tested (Stable channel) to completely untested and likely least stable (Canary channel).
I loved Mike Nolet's work on guessing your gender from your browsing history, and on my bike ride this morning got inspired to produce a tag cloud of whats on your mind, based on the sites you've visited.

PeteSearch: Using your browser history to tell what's on yo

http://petewarden.typepad.com/searchbrowser/2008/08/a-tag-cloud-for.html
http://www.mikeonads.com/2008/07/13/using-your-browser-url-history-estimate-gender/ One of the things that I always wanted to do but never got around to was to analyze a user’s browsing history to estimate age and gender. Of course the idea is definitely not new, in fact Xerox (of all companies??)

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Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visit

One of the great things about the web is the relative ease with which one can set up a new service. In social bookmarking alone with have Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Fark, Mister-Wong, Newsvine, Reddit, Technorati, Slashdot, and StumbleUpon, to name a few. http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/socialhistoryjs/
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-privacy-2009-02

10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know

We’ve updated this guide with the new privacy settings just launched by Facebook. You can get the new Facebook privacy guide now .
The viewing log, which will be handed to Viacom, contains the log-in ID of users, the computer IP address (online identifier) and video clip details. While the legal battle between the two firms is being contested in the US, it is thought the ruling will apply to YouTube users and their viewing habits everywhere. Viacom, which owns MTV and Paramount Pictures, has alleged that YouTube is guilty of massive copyright infringement. The UK's Premier League association is also seeking class action status with Viacom on the issue, alleging YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, has been used to watch football highlights. Legal action http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7488009.stm

Google must divulge YouTube log

A fresh take on the browser

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html At Google, we have a saying: “launch early and iterate.” While this approach is usually limited to our engineers, it apparently applies to our mailroom as well!