Bits: Using Facebook Updates to Chronicle Breakups
Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 09:41 Written by External Post Wednesday, 3 November 2010 09:41
Mathias Mikkelsen via David McCandless data David McCandless, a London-based author, writer and designer, is constantly playing with data sets available online and translating heaps of code into well-designed visual stories. Some of Mr. McCandless’s
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Bits: Google Settles Suit Over Buzz and Privacy
Last Updated on Wednesday, 3 November 2010 08:20 Written by External Post Wednesday, 3 November 2010 08:20
Google informed users of its Gmail service Tuesday evening that it had settled a class action lawsuit brought against it by some users who were upset by the way the company rolled out its Buzz social networking service. You may remember it. Last February
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Bits: Levinsohn Replaces Schneider at Yahoo
Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 05:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 05:21
Yahoo, which has seen a steady stream of its executives depart, has hired Ross Levinsohn, a former executive with Fox Interactive Media, to lead its operations in the Americas. Mr. Levinsohn replaces Hilary Schneider, who disclosed plans to leave last
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Bits: F.T.C. Drops Google Inquiry on Street View Data
Last Updated on Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:21 Written by External Post Thursday, 28 October 2010 01:21
The Federal Trade Commission announced Wednesday that it would cease its inquiry into Google’s collection of consumer data transmitted over wireless networks by its Street View cars. In a letter issued Monday morning, David C. Vladek, the director of
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Bits: Burglars Picked Houses Based on Facebook Updates
Last Updated on Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:00 Written by External Post Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:00
If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that youre heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status update with a warning that your home is under 24-hour surveillance, you have a 140-pound
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Bits Pics: Twitter Traffic During the World Cup
Last Updated on Saturday, 17 July 2010 10:00 Written by External Post Saturday, 17 July 2010 10:00
The image above is cropped from a larger data visualization, created by Twitter, showing the use of Twitter during the World Cup. In a post on the company’s blog, Matt Graves, a Twitter employee, said that the final match of the World Cup
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Bits Scan: Pirate Bay, the Internet River and a Google Patent
Last Updated on Tuesday, 2 March 2010 06:45 Written by External Post Tuesday, 2 March 2010 06:45
Good morning, Bits readers. It?s Tuesday, and although the is mostly cloudy, our technology news is not: was a major hub for illegal file-sharing until it was shut down last year by Dutch authorities. TorrentFreak notes that the site is still standing,
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Holiday E-Commerce Sales Increased 5 Percent
Last Updated on Thursday, 31 December 2009 08:15 Written by External Post Thursday, 31 December 2009 08:15
Several readers wrote to us, in response to a Bits post about the best and worst e-commerce sites, to say that they did all their holiday shopping online this year. I did not set foot into a store this holiday season and all Christmas shopping was done
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