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Apple kills Google's internal apps, too Members Public

Google feels Apple's banhammer a day after Facebook fell before it…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
apple

Journalists: update your iOS devices now Members Public

Today’s security update for Apple’s iOS devices [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/technology/apple-software-vulnerability-ios-patch.html] is a serious one: > One of the world’s most evasive digital arms dealers is believed to have been taking advantage of three security vulnerabilities in popular Apple products in

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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This guy analysed what data Buzzfeed is collecting about you - and you won't believe what he found… Members Public

Dan Barker’s been poking at the tracking javascript on Buzzfeed, and found some very interesting data being captured from quizzes [http://barker.co.uk/buzzfeediswatching]: > In other words, if I had access to the BuzzFeed Google Analytics data, I could query data for people who got to the

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
analytics

Flickr, data and the historic built environment Members Public

What happens if you mix the geo-data embedded in photos with some data about where our listed buildings are in London? This: > Higher graded buildings were more likely to have photographs taken near them: 88% of Grade Is had at least one photograph falling within 25m of their centre

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
APIs

Facebook's dirty data Members Public

Interesting argument that Facebook’s graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebook’s data is dirty [http://stevecheney.posterous.com/graph-searchs-false-promise-and-the-con-of-th] : > It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirty—i.e. there is no true

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
data

DJ Patil: the internet of things will be our superpowers Members Public

[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/DJ-Patil.jpg] Dr. DJ Patil, Data Scientist in Residence, Greylock Partners Our world is becoming an instrumented lifecycle. We are becoming the internet of things by surrounding ourselves with sensors, and using that data to get better insights about

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Aral on identity, privacy and app.net Members Public

Liveblog of Aral’s talk at Hacks/Hackers Brighton: * * ## [Aral Balkan](http://www.breakingthin.gs)He’s going to talk to us about identity and privacy. He’s an experience designer. He makes things for people – mainly virtual products, his focus is on the human side of things. [https://i0.

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
app.net. open standards

Google's trust deficit Members Public

Mark Wilson, summing up his thoughts [http://www.markwilson.co.uk/blog/2012/07/the-annotated-world-the-future-of-geospatial-technology-edparsons-at-digitalsurrey.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+marksweblog+%28markwilson.it%29] on last week’s Digital Surrey Google Maps talk [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/07/digital_surry_

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
data