Delete Button for the Internet: Tool Removes Personal Info From Google, Facebook. Remember the 1995 movie The Net--when Sandra Bullock frightened audiences with the prospect of having your identity deleted in cyberspace?
How times have changed. With the rise of third-party cookies and ads that watch your online behavior, removing embarrassing personal information from the Internet has almost become a holy grail of digital life. Bullock's situation seems almost desirable in retrospect. The Freenet Project - /index. Stipple Lets You Tag Friends In Photos, Even If You Post Them On Your Own Site. We’re all pretty familiar with tagging people on sites like Facebook and Flickr.
It’s a great way to let the people who are in the pictures know you’ve uploaded shots of them, and it’s also a good way for others to see who the persons are in the photos they’re looking at. But what if you’d rather steer clear of the walled gardens of the Web and upload photos to your own website or blog? Wouldn’t it be useful to be able to tag those, too?
Enter Stipple, a recently launched startup that lets you tag images across the entire Web (see example on BritneySpears.com).