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...companies creating point systems to reward consumers for online activities. Most are designed to encourage loyalty to particular sites, much as frequent-flier miles do offline. The key problem point systems are meant to address is how little attention...
...time in which literally the entire world was asking Microsoft: What does your mapping look like -- how can I find a particular site? And that's when someone decided to strike," said Dave Dittrich, a senior security engineer at the University...
...lack phones. And Internet users don't visit every site, so at most a Web survey can reflect what users of that particular site think. Consider the results of one online survey at Time magazine's Web site. Visitors were asked to grade Bush's...
...choosing to participate and many Americans still having no Internet access. Other techniques attempt randomness within a particular site. Microsoft Corp., for instance, recently sponsored a study on advertising by sending a survey to every 200th visitor...
...help raise the profile of privacy on the Net. Users should find it easier than ever to get a quick idea of whether a particular site will respect privacy or is merely collecting as much personal information as it can for resale to others. Thus...
...tells me that bridge, for that matter all bridges, this time of year are very icy. A history of accidents at a particular site at the same time of year requires in my opinion the responsibility of a governing body to address and try to prevent...
...kids said that 61 percent knew what they were looking at. Please investigate what your kids are looking at. One particular site that most of us are aware of is myspace.com. This space can be a great way for kids to meet each other, but can...
...sharing is limited to links for profile photos of users and friends who have expressly consented to sharing with that particular site. The user's name and numeric ID on Facebook are replaced with Google's own identifiers, Google said in a company...
...will be able to specify that only photos go to site A and friends lists to site B, rather than all or nothing for a particular site. Facebook said third-party developers could build that granularity themselves, while Google was considering it...
...Digital Convergence could tell a client how many people in various demographic categories used the CueCat to visit a particular site, but not who they were. Of course, companies can change their privacy policies at will. That's what Amazon...