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Posted on April 30, 2007
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HP Acquires Tabblo
HP has announced recently they would be acquiring Tabblo, a website that allows people to print graphics and photos off the Internet.
HP plans to leverage Tabblo's technologies to make printing from the web easier and more convenient than it is today. Tabblo's technology allows people to simply and efficiently arrange and print text, graphics and photos from the web. This is made possible by Tabblo's custom template engine, using an AJAX-enriched interface.Tabblo also makes it easier for people to create and print photo-related products such as photo cubes, photo books and posters using their own photographs.
HP plans to make this simple-to-use web-printing experience broadly available to people by working with other companies to integrate the technology into their websites. Together, HP and its partner companies will provide customers with a vastly improved web-based printing experience to meet the ever-growing need for simplified Internet-based printing.
"HP's goal is to make printing content from the web the easiest and best experience possible for people - whether they are printing a simple map or a book of their favorite blogs," said Vyomesh Joshi, executive vice president, Imaging and Printing Group, HP. "By acquiring Tabblo's technology and making it available to companies that host popular websites, HP will be firmly on the path to becoming the print engine of the web."
Posted on April 25, 2007
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Internet News Twitter
We have launched a twitter profile which provides Internet news. Twitter is a microblogging service and communication tool that allows you to post short 140 character updates. To get our updates on Twitter you need to join Twitter and then follow our Twitter profile.
You can keep up with news about Twitter by reading BloggersBlog.com's Twitter news section or by following the BloggersBlog.com Twitter. Examples of some of the other news Twitters available include business news, celebrity gossip, sports news, tech gadgets, jobs, green news, video game news, health news, tech news, fashion news, politics and virtual worlds.
Posted on April 17, 2007
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Google to Anonymize Search Data
Google has posted that they plan to start anonymizing their server logs after 18-24 months in a move towards more privacy for Google search users.When you search on Google, we collect information about your search, such as the query itself, IP addresses and cookie details. Previously, we kept this data for as long as it was useful. Today we're pleased to report a change in our privacy policy: Unless we're legally required to retain log data for longer, we will anonymize our server logs after a limited period of time. When we implement this policy change in the coming months, we will continue to keep server log data (so that we can improve Google's services and protect them from security and other abuses)-but will make this data much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified with individual users, after 18-24 months.There has been an overall positive reaction to Google's privacy move -- see here, here, here, here and here. Wired Threat Level blog has a comment from Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation who called Google's move a good first step.
Just as we continuously work to improve our products, we also work toward having the best privacy practices for our users. This includes designing privacy protections into our products (like Google Talk's "off the record" feature or Google Desktop's "pause" and "lock search" controls). This also means providing clear, easy to understand privacy policies that help you make informed decisions about using our services.
After talking with leading privacy stakeholders in Europe and the U.S., we're pleased to be taking this important step toward protecting your privacy. By anonymizing our server logs after 18-24 months, we think we're striking the right balance between two goals: continuing to improve Google's services for you, while providing more transparency and certainty about our retention practices. In the future, it's possible that data retention laws will obligate us to retain logs for longer periods. Of course, you can always choose to have us retain this data for more personalized services like Search History. But that's up to you.
"Google seems to have finally realized that keeping detailed logs of users' online activities threatens their privacy. We are very glad to see Google is taking these first steps to limit their retention of data which can intimately detail users' private online activities .We hope this is only a first step and we hope they will expand this to retain this data for even less time."The data needs to be anonymized to the point where search patterns cannot be determined. Some people were identified from their search keywords during the AOL search datda fiasco - see here and here. That incident really highlighted how crucial it is that user's search data remain private and be destroyed by search providers. The best reality for users would be if the search information was never recorded or linked to an account number or IP number at all.
Posted on April 10, 2007
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