12 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

More thoughts on Google's tracking abilities

TweetIt all comes down to the cookie. The Wall Street Journal recently began a series of articles called What They Know, detailing the different pieces of data that online marketing companies have about people as they traverse the web. None of this is really new, especially not to me, since I work in that industry. [...]

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06 August 2010 ~ 0 Comments

The sinister side of Google's Picasa face tagging

TweetSo, let me start by saying that I love Picasa, Google’s photo organization tool. It automatically finds new photos as you add them to your hard drive. It lets you crop pictures, remove red-eye, adjust colors and make a few other basic edits that cover probably 95% of what most people need to do when [...]

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