My Digital FootPrint

Looking at visibility reports http://www.vrank.com/ and in their judgement for something that is not specified I am doing quite well – and when I do everything someone else will come along with a new algorithm and will rate everything differently. Probably tired and cynical

The EU requirement is that any cookie (or other equivalent mechanism) other than a "session-cookie" essential for the working of a website (and tracking, ad-serving and stats are NOT essential) will at some point in the next 12 months require opt-in consent from a web-site visitor. You do NOT need to get consent right now - Nellie Kroes of the European Commission AND Christopher Graham, the UK Information Commissioner have both made it clear there is a 12 month "grace" period Both have also made it clear that they expect the web-browser suppliers to come up with a solution (this is a global problem as legislation is being threatened worldwide) You should NOT make any immediate changes to your website You SHOULD review the list of actions you DO need to take in our free guide and consider circulating it to everyone who has anything to do with the web in your business. So, don’t worry, take the dire warning of the doom mongers with a large pinch of salt, re

Global Web Index  has mapped how the world uses social networks in the infographic The research, run by London-based consultancy  Trendstream , has conducted six waves of surveys about global consumer adoption of the Internet and social media in 36 markets. It used data from its February 2011 surveys of between 750 and 2,000 online users in each market to define three behaviour types: massagers, groupers and content sharers.

From GIGAOM: Cloud computing requires new thinking on privacy

Original post: on iHealthBeat The  U.S. Supreme Court overturned  a Vermont law that sought to limit the practice of selling information about physicians’ prescribing habits for marketing purposes, the  AP/Burlington Free Press  reports. The Vermont law also was aimed at increasing the use of generic drugs (Sherman, AP/Burlington Free Press, 6/23). In a 6-3 ruling, the court said that the law placed an unconstitutional restraint on the free-speech rights of drugmakers (Kendall,  Wall Street Journal , 6/23). The Supreme Court ruled the Vermont law violated constitutional free-speech rights, even though the statute was drafted to prevent drug companies from using direct marketing to persuade physicians to prescribe brand-name drugs,  Modern Healthcare  reports.

This McKinsey  report ( sorry you have to trade your identity to get it ) calls big data “the next frontier for innovation, competition and productivity.” We can answer questions with big data that were beyond reach in the past. We can extract insight and knowledge, identify trends and use the data to improve productivity, gain competitive advantage and create substantial value for the world economy. The challenges with big data are limited compared to the potential benefits, which are limited only by our creativity and ability to make connections among the trillions of bytes of data we have access to. Big data provides an opportunity to find insight in new and emerging types of data.  How will you take advantage of this opportunity? Personal comment: In Light of the other blogs today about more data not producing better decisions, I might disagree.  But we do need to find a way to weave data (content and rights) so it becomes available. It is not about storing data………

According to  IBM , we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. Ninety percent of the data we have has been created in the past two years and the amount of data is expected to increase exponentially. The data we create is expanding rapidly as enterprises capture more data in greater detail, as multimedia becomes more common, as social media conversations explode and as we use the Internet to get things done. This is “big data,” and it’s getting even bigger. Big data spans three dimensions: Variety  – Big data extends beyond structured data, including unstructured data of all varieties: text, audio, video, click streams, log files and more. Velocity  – Often time-sensitive, big data must be used as it is streaming in to the enterprise in order to maximize its value to the business. Volume  – Big data comes in one size: large. Enterprises are awash with data, easily