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Core Concepts in Identity via @identitywoman

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Tony Fish @My Digital Footprint Source: http://www.identitywoman.net/core-concepts-in-identity Worth reading as provides a lexicon …. and this is my visual interruption

The Value of Identity Data and Identity Etiquette

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Anonymity, Privacy, and Security Online from @pewresearch

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Source: Pew Research : Download Most (US) internet users would like to be anonymous online at least occasionally, but many think it is not possible to be completely anonymous online. New findings in a national survey show: 86% of internet users have taken steps online to remove or mask their digital footprints—ranging from clearing cookies to encrypting their email, from avoiding using their name to using virtual networks that mask their internet protocol (IP) address. 55% of internet users have taken steps to avoid observation by specific people, organizations, or the government Love human behaviour, they think that by deleting what it says on their computer that the record has gone……

Dilbert: we now use data from the Internet to see what you've been up to

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THE CONSUMER POTENTIAL OF COLLABORATIVE CONSUMPTION

Master thesis sdeg pieter van de glind - 3845494 - the consumer potential of collaborative consumption - august 2013 from Pieter van de Glind

How personality changes over time, which parts and how we can now measure it.

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Source : Andrew McAfee’s Blog Source2 : Personality, Gender, and Age in the Language of Social Media: The Open-Vocabulary Approach They analysed 700 million words, phrases, and topic instances collected from the Facebook messages of 75,000 volunteers, who also took standard personality tests, and found striking variations in language with personality, gender, and age. In our open-vocabulary technique, the data itself drives a comprehensive exploration of language that distinguishes people, finding connections that are not captured with traditional closed-vocabulary word-category analyses. Our analyses shed new light on psychosocial processes yielding results that are face valid (e.g., subjects living in high elevations talk about the mountains), tie in with other research (e.g., neurotic people disproportionately use the phrase ‘sick of’ and the word ‘depressed’), suggest new hypotheses (e.g., an active life implies emotional stability), and give detailed insights (males

How Investors See the Big Data Market and Its Investment Opportunities

Jake Flomenber talks about how he views the larger big data market. Jake works with the  Accel’s big data fund , which recently opened their second $ 100 million fund, so he knows what he is talking about. He talks with Stefan Groschupf, the chief executive of Datameer, another well-funded Big Data startup with almost $ 37 million in funding.