PUBLIC MARKS with tag opacité

Beginning in June 2010, a storefront in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, and in Dudley Square, Roxbury will be transformed into large video screens, providing pedestrians of each neighborhood with a portal into one another's worlds. Running 24/7, life-size screen images and AV technology will enable real-time communication between residents of the two neighborhoods.

When we move into any social space we have to choose which of our faces to show. At any given moment, a few of them are visible. The others are hidden, often because we think they are somehow "weird".

This is Sara (and her husband). I found her on the flea market last Saturday. 3 photo albums from the 1940s full of storys. And fashion. But above all, full of happiness. Here we are, June 1941, Madeira Island.

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* Your history will not be visible publicly or to your Latitude friends.

* You may delete your entire location history or portions of it whenever you like.

* Disabling the feature will not remove existing history already stored. To delete that, go to History management.

That means that Google has more informational power over us, and that’s a concern. A related concern is the fact that we must understand and realize whatever we say today will or might be held against us in the future.

That 1993 cartoon could use an update. On the Internet today, everybody knows you’re a dog.

Now today there are few human beings who, for biological reasons, cannot forget. What sounds like a blessing, they certainly do remember where they parked their car in a shopping mall. It turns out that they have tremendous difficulties in acting in time, in deciding in time, because they remember all their bad, failed decisions in the past, and therefore hesitate to make a decision in the present.

“Privacy is conceived of as an interpersonal boundary process by which a person or group regulates interaction with others. By altering the degree of openness of the self to others, a hypothetical personal boundary is more or less receptive to social interaction with others. Privacy is, therefore, a dynamic process involving selective control over a self–boundary, either by an individual or by a group.”

karl 10.31.09 / 5pm

I had a smile. Following “You can help us brainstorm them.” I had a page saying that I had to enable cookies to be able to use the site. :)

The brainstorm not accessible without cookies.

And he comes up with an interesting solution: expiration dates in electronic files. This would stop the files from existing forever and flooding us and the next generations with gigantic piles of mostly useless or even potentially harmful details.

Likewise with transparency. There is no questioning the good that transparency creates in a wide range of contexts, government especially. But we should also recognize that the collateral consequence of that good need not itself be good. And if that collateral bad is busy certifying to the American public what it thinks it already knows, we should think carefully about how to avoid it.

You can set your preferences for who can add you to photos and who can add people to photos you’ve shared. You can even determine on a photo-by-photo basis if you’d like to be featured — after all, everyone has a bad hair day now and then. If you do remove yourself from a photo, only you will be able to add yourself back in. If you decide that People in Photos isn’t your thing, you can remove yourself entirely.

De sorte qu’Internet est devenu, concernant cette question de la transmission esthétique, exactement l’inverse de ce qu’il était: un espace dont il faut échapper, où il ne faut pas être.

CoMob is an iPhone GPS tracking application A group of iPhone users can use the application simultaneously and see the location of each group member on the screen.

At the present time, we have access to countless cuneiform documents, including economic records, letters, and literary works from early Sumerian times, produced over 4,000 years ago. Many of these artifacts are essential to our understanding of the values and practices that shaped this ancient culture. Can we aspire the same longevity for our modern cultural artifacts?

Unlike the traditional ways to capture travel information, our approach relies on the mobile phone to generate “automatic passive” GSM fingerprints and trigger an in-situ questionnaire. It is an hybrid solution of implicit motion detection with the air traveller’s consent and explicit disclosure of the travel experience.

However like dark matter, dark users are observable due to their effects on the rest of the universe. If a dark user comments on a stream entry, I can see that comment. More importantly, I can see their user-ID, and I can generate a URL to a page that will contain their name. I can then watch for their activities elsewhere. Granted, I can't directly search for their activity, but I can observe their effects on my friends. For want of a better term, I've been calling this "dark stalking".

Enter bookmark tags... you can add tags to bookmarks to find them easily. Why not tag bookmarks with "notawesome", then somehow hide those from the awesome bar search?

Boom! But it was only an early mile marker in Sweeney's career; in 2000, she showed that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex.

More than one hundred thou­sand person­al raw data sets were crawled from the web to fill this pa­ram­e­ters with subject mat­ters. Based on the thesis that the dig­ital identity is measur­able and compa­ra­ble these data sets were vi­su­alized us­ing custom compu­tational tools.

These stud­ies were designed to under­stand the data and determine its char­ac­ter­is­tics regard­ing the construction of dig­ital identity.

Af­ter the anal­ysis phase the data was vi­su­ally abstracted and interpreted to give the disembod­ied dig­ital identity a unique and char­ac­ter­is­tic »Gestalt« in form of a generated sculp­ture.

Today almost everybody has at least one digital representation in one of the numerous social communities, like Flickr, Facebook and MySpace.

It starts with a simple instruction: Don't send.