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Mind Reading: The Researchers Who Analyzed All the Porn on the Internet
"We looked at individual search histories for half a million people using an AOL data set..." This line rendered the entire research project as suspect for me. Good read none-the-less... Searching all the porn on the Internet might not seem like the most scientifically productive activity, but computational neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam [...]
App called “Creepy” pinpoints people’s location based on their social networking activity
The creator of Creepy, Yiannis Kakavas, calls his application a "geolocation information aggregator." It analyzes a person's tweets, Facebook posts, and Flickr stream to generate a map of where that person is and where he or she goes. You can enter a Twitter or Flickr username into the software's interface, or use the in-built search utility [...]
Data glory holes
Aram Bartholl is mortaring USB drives into walls, curbs, and buildings around New York. These dead drops, as he terms them, are peer-to-peer file transfer points with true anonymity. Bartholl has a residency with EYEBEAM, a truly fascinating incubator of and studio for new ideas in technology and art. The project has five initial locations [...]
