My Digital FootPrint

Another people search engine that sizes everyone's digital footprint. The PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. Alas I don’t feature at all, neither does the more famous Tony Fish from Mad Men http://www.peekyou.com/tony_fish  but I am comforted that Martha Lane Fox and Brent Hoberman (lastminute founders) gets a 0 and 1 out of 10 respectively. The higher someone's score, the "more important" they are on the web. PeekYou calculates PeekScore for every person and updates it often, taking into account the person's known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to their blogging, participation in social networks, number of friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content they create, and their prominence in the news and blogs. "PeekScore has long been in development and we're excited to unveil the first release to the public," said Michael Hussey, Founder and CEO of PeekYou.

Coffee giant Starbucks will begin offering free wireless Internet service at its 6,700 US stores next month and free digital content through a partnership with Yahoo!  Starbucks said the free Wi-Fi service would be available from July 1 through US telecom giant AT&T. Starbucks currently offers two hours of free Wi-Fi to customers who have a Starbucks card.  The coffee chain said it also plans to offer free digital content to customers, including free access to websites such as that of The Wall Street Journal, which currently charges online readers for full access to WSJ.com. The "Starbucks Digital Network" will launch this fall and will offer "free unrestricted access to various paid sites and services," Starbucks said in a statement.   It said launch content providers will include Apple's iTunes, The New York Times, Patch, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! and Zagat. So what and where is the model?  Each customer will log in with a unique ide

Coffee giant Starbucks will begin offering free wireless Internet service at its 6,700 US stores next month and free digital content through a partnership with Yahoo!  Starbucks said the free Wi-Fi service would be available from July 1 through US telecom giant AT&T. Starbucks currently offers two hours of free Wi-Fi to customers who have a Starbucks card.  The coffee chain said it also plans to offer free digital content to customers, including free access to websites such as that of The Wall Street Journal, which currently charges online readers for full access to WSJ.com. The "Starbucks Digital Network" will launch this fall and will offer "free unrestricted access to various paid sites and services," Starbucks said in a statement.   It said launch content providers will include Apple's iTunes, The New York Times, Patch, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, Yahoo! and Zagat. So what and where is the model?  Each customer will log in with a unique ide

  Many quotes in this months mag about “My Digital Footprint” in an article “Got your ID” by Alun Lewis   http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/255213a7#/255213a7/20  

interpretation :sign language There are four common interpretations of the phrase "digital footprint" and they all share two common characteristics which are that digital footprints are about an individual's interaction with a digital world and that the data created from the interaction can be exploited. The differences depend on how deep, or prepared, you want to look. The most common definition of a digital footprint is the content you leave about yourself in the web. This is content you create for a blog, comments you leave, photo's you up load or your profile and content you create on a social networking site. There is little difference between your professional profile and your personal profile. This is used as a definition in education circles to help children understand that what they say provides a representation of them what is "Your Digital Footprint?" This definition introduces the ideas of reputation. The second definition is created by addin

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do kids love technology” and concluded “it

http://ycorpblog.com/2010/06/10/internet-safety/ Yahoo! Gives Parents a B+ During Internet Safety Month posted 10 June 2010 - Parents take action We are encouraged to learn that parents are taking action to actively monitor their kids’ online activity. * 70% of parents talk to their children about online safety at least 2-3 times a year; 45% talk to their children least once a month. * 74% of parents are connected to their children’s profiles on social networking sites. * 71% of parents have taken at least one action to manage their children’s use of the Internet or cell phones.  Parents are checking to see where children are searching online, setting time limits, setting parental controls on video sites, and using filters to limit where their children go on the Web. MDFP Comment – what worries me is that Parents (and I am one) think that they can stay ahead of the kids (and I was one).  Orange conducted some research that asked “why do kids love technology” and concluded “it