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When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying

nikkey — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:34:16 +0000

When Politicians And Celebrities Are Lying

RealScoop utilizes leading voice analysis technology to analyze statements made by public figures. The BELIEVABILITY METER™ analyzes each celebrity video second by second, displaying the real-time results in a color-coded manner from left to right. The most believable statements are green, gradually turning red as they become more questionable.

Just for fun?!

Ipoki – GPS-based social network

nicola — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:55:36 +0000

Ipoki is a GPS-based social network that allows people to share geolocation data using a small application installed in their mobile devices.

With Ipoki you can track the position in Google Maps of all our friends, and:

Google Earth integration: You can follow in Google Earth in realtime.
Flickr: Keep your tracks in Ipoki and upload your photos in Flicker. Now you can geolocate all your Flickr photos from Ipoki just with one click!
Social capabilities: See the location of random people, list of friends, invite friends from ipoki.com, manage your privacy, customize your picture, include tags.
Communication: registered users can post comments to the map of other users and they can send responses from Ipoki plug-in in realtime.
Embed your map with your real-time location in your Blog or any other site.
Easily share your real-time location in the Internet directly with your Ipoki URL (http:www.ipoki.com/maps/username ).
Ipoki API for developers to send and retreive users’ location.

Website: http://www.ipoki.com

Data-profiling… and our privacy?

nikkey — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:10:46 +0000

I like the web. It is a place of freedom, community and knowledge.

However, you must follow some rules and know what goes on when you are sitting in front of your pc.

I am scared by the quantity of information about myself I end up sharing with others – and I don’t know who they are.

They track us down for business. Business is not devil, as Google teaches us, but spying on us every second might be.

If you care about your privacy, have a look at the software below:

TrackMeNot is a lightweight browser extension that helps protect web searchers from surveillance and data-profiling by search engines. It does so not by means of concealment or encryption (i.e. covering one’s tracks), but instead, paradoxically, by the opposite strategy: noise and obfuscation. With TrackMeNot, actual web searches, lost in a cloud of false leads, are essentially hidden in plain view. User-installed TrackMeNot works with the Firefox Browser and popular search engines (AOL, Yahoo!, Google, and MSN) and requires no 3rd-party servers or services.
SCookies – Share your Cookies!
SCookies simply shares your cookies with other users that enabled it too. It sends your cookies to a centralized server and gets another user’s cookie in return. By doing so, your profile will then be built on many other user’ search queries, thus the profiles are not realiable.
It is a Firefox extension.
Scroogle is a web service that disguises the Internet address of users who want to run Google searches anonymously. Scroogle also gives users the option of having all communication between their computer and the search page be SSL encrypted.
Besides anonymous searches, the tool allows users to perform Google searches without receiving Google advertisements. There is support for 28 languages, and the tool is available as a browser plug-in. A secure connection to the Scroogle website is also possible.
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data, managing HTTP cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. Privoxy has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.

Big brother: search and destroy!

nikkey — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:04:34 +0000

Have a look at the services of the company ReputationDefender.
A nice service, we needed something like this, or just scary?
And what about the service “My Child”… do you really care about his/her online reputation?

From the official website:

ReputationDefender was created to defend you and your family’s good name on the Internet. Our goal is straightforward:

To SEARCH out all information about you and/or your child on the Internet, wherever it may be, and present it to you in a clear report.

To provide DESTROY assistance, helping remove, at your command, all inaccurate, inappropriate, hurtful, and slanderous information about you and/or your child using our proprietary in-house methodology.

We accomplish this goal through our two flagship products:

MyReputation^(sm) Internet Reputation Management Service – for you.

MyChild^(sm) Internet Reputation Management Service – for your child.

Who you are online is as important as who you are offline. Naturally, professionals, parents, college applicants, graduate school applicants, job seekers, and employers have raised serious and legitimate concerns about how to deal with this change and with the ever-increasing amount of information about each of us on the Internet.

By nearly all measures, the Internet is a boon to the way we all live. But the transparency of the Internet has also produced a seriously problematic, albeit unintended, effect: the Internet threatens to invade almost everyone’s privacy. It affects almost everyone’s reputation. Online content about even the most casual Internet users can be harmful, hurtful, or even plain false. The founders of our company asked one another: isn’t it time someone fought back?

We at ReputationDefender are committed to ensuring that the Internet is a medium where our clients can do business, pursue their passions, apply to school, apply for a job, date, and stay connected with friends and family, while knowing that their reputations, safety, and privacy are being protected 24 hours a day.

We will find the unwelcome online content about you or your loved ones, even if it is buried in websites that are not easily examined with standard online search engines. And if you tell us to do so, we will work around the clock to help you get that unwelcome content removed or corrected.

Our commitment is to your peace of mind. Our goal is to watch your back.