My Digital FootPrint

Is Anything Private on Your Phone Anymore? is a blog/ article from Lookout "Outlook decided to look at the range of personal information on your phone, explain the top privacy concerns and give simple steps you can take to put your mind at ease."  Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt sell - especially if you are selling security.  

  This is driven by a thought - is there a flaw in personalisation? Most TV service providers now recognise that there is a need to incorporate recommendation as part of their content discovery mix - according to TV Genius . Depending on the provider, this can be a matter of personalising the video-on-demand store, promoting premium TV channels, or driving viewers to video-on-demand services from within the traditional EPG. All of these solutions have appeal to different demographic groups, but recent research they have conducted shows that a much broader content discovery solution is required.  After all, not every user has the same exact content discovery needs; while some viewers know exactly what they want, others are simply browsing for something new to watch.   So segmentation could look like ..... with each group having very different content discovery behaviours. 1. Socialites: Influenced by friends and family, channel surfing, and web and mobile 2. Progressives:...

On a serious note and following the identity phrase "how do you know I am not a dog" - we assume that what we read on a screen is real (well more real than a news headline) but there are people out there who are trying to deceive you. Worth checking out what Andriod and iPhone applications there are for fake location.

Practical Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding in colloboration with IW (www.theIW.org) Engaging Citizens or Customers with Web2.0 and Social Media Interested in learning what all the hype is about? Curious as to what it takes to use crowdsourcing as part of your innovation strategy/ How do I get started with crowdfunding to fund change or startups? Join us for this interactive workshop which will cover  the following topics: Social media and its impact on product development, marketing and communications. Practical Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding - what are they and how can you use them? How to tap into the conversations that are already going on to make better decisions? Making crowdsourcing pay for itself - the business case. What are the restrictions around crowdfunding things like bands, businesses, charities, etc.? Best practices and how to implement in your organization. How to overcome some of the negatives. How social media fits into the ...

Image from the BBC An article written by Daniel Solve http://chronicle.com/article/Why-Privacy-Matters-Even-if/127461/ is about Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide' to which he asks questions such as  "So do you have curtains?"  or  "Can I see your credit-card bills for the last year?" His response to the "If you have nothing to hide ... " argument is simply, "I don't need to justify my position. You need to justify yours. Come back with a warrant." I don't have anything to hide. But I don't have anything I feel like showing you, either. If you have nothing to hide, then you don't have a life. Show me yours and I'll show you mine. It's not about having anything to hide, it's about things not being anyone else's business. The long article is worth a read and you quickly see that Andrew is on a different side of the coin to say Jeff Jarvis - worth listening to their BBC inte...

    For the past year Simon and I have been growing, under the banner of   mashup* ,   Ignite  in partnership with  Avanta .  The vision was to provide a space where early stage, high growth, companies can start, grow, meet and collaborate - accelerating the rate of their innovation and connecting with critical delivery and implementation skills.  So far fruit includes  InDigital ,  Start-up Intelligence ,  Bluefield  and  OOsocial . Whilst doing this I have also been part of the founding team to start-up a much bigger open collaborate/ co-creation space called  IW  (working with the  City of London Corporation ) and we opened the doors today! There is now 10,000 sq foot of digital incubation space in the  Smithfield .   IW is a shared, semi-open plan office space designed for growing companies in a vibrant atmosphere. We aim to attract dynamic young businesses who want to grow fast.  IW ...

Image from Life Hacker which also has a good blog on the topic of Do Not Track Edward Markey (D-Mass) and Joe Barton (R-Texas) have released  a discussion draft   “ Do Not Track Kids Act of 2011 (for the USA)." Views based on a very quick read of a bill which is intended to help safeguard kids’ privacy online, has provisions of wider interest: (1) New regulations aimed at limiting data collection about children and teens, including           (a)  expansion of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) of 1998 , which would build upon COPPA’s “verifiable parental consent” model; and           (b) a new “ Digital Marketing Bill of Rights for Teens ;” and           (c)  limits on collection of geolocation information  about both children and teens. (2)...