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It's interesting that I can lookup people at my company who are behind the same connection that I am, but my account doesn't give away my IP. They also seem to get a lot more SPAM calls whereas I get fewer. I wonder if it's a privacy setting that I setup in the past or just the fact that my account is older.

Either way, it's great to know that this is possible.

I read the article and was on my way back to post the same thing. Couldn't agree more. Gender, Birthday, Location come with every Google account, and as we are all acutely aware, this information is shared under Google's new privacy policy.

To say that the G+ team doesn't care if people use G+ is ridiculous.

This, along with copying a character from the clipboard, won't defeat most keyloggers. The only kind you would be fooling would be a hardware keylogger. Your best bet is two step authentication.

It's safe to say that you didn't have a great Drupal experience, but did you really spend two years working with it and not see its advantages? I would have moved on long before that.

Drupal does have a steep learning curve, and it is certainly not for everyone. Out of the box, it's extremely easy to install... but you end up with nothing more than Wordpress until you extend it. The goal with any project though should be to find the tool that works best for the situation. For me, Drupal is (or at least can be) the answer the majority of the time.

Once you get Drupal, understand where everything is, comprehend nodes, can appreciate the beauty of blocks, and can recall which module you need for the specific situation - Drupal goes from being a nightmare to a dream. Projects that would normally take days to code in PHP or Rails end up taking hours with Drupal. You never have to think about validation, mobile compliance, or site speed if you know how to customize Drupal. To me, the best part is the community. Time and money is saved thanks to the huge number of modules and themes to choose from.

If you end up giving it another shot, check out the lynda training videos or grab a book from Amazon.

I am still getting emails from my domains that were brought transferred out during the last week in December. I assume that this count is based off of when the domain is actually transferred out as opposed to the date that the process is initiated.

It takes a little getting used to, but Google Refine has saved me on multiple occasions.

I think this is a highly likely scenario. The reddit user isn't taking into account that much of what Facebook knows about us comes from our connections.

This addresses Google's content network. You still need SpyFu to target the search network.

I don't use ad blocking software because (1) I'm in marketing and (2) it's nice to know which companies are making moves.

I do opt out of Google's targeted advertising, and I definitely use Facebook Disconnect. All of my searches also originate from DDG, even if I throw a !g on the query every now and then.

Great concept, but people are taking advantage of the fact that you're showing the latest screen shot on the right hand side of the page. It's pretty grotesque. You may want to fix that.

While it's crazy to think that you'd want to drive people away, it's probably rather controlled.

The ads (1) open in a new window, (2) Ryanair knows that no one is going to beat them on price, and (3) Ryanair can block any company that they think is a threat from showing ads.

Some governments would be served well by cutting costs to the absolute bare minimum and increasing non-tax revenue streams.

For those who haven't read the Ryanair story, it's pretty remarkable. The Ryan family had a small commuter flight business in Ireland (what is Ryanair today) and a large, profitable business leasing planes to airlines in the opposite hemisphere during peak demand. When the latter business was ready to IPO, it went really, really badly and the Ryan family had taken out massive loans throwing their entire fortune into question. They appointed a family friend, Michael O'Leary, as CEO of Ryanair and made a deal with him to give him 10% (I think) of all profits. O'Leary came to the US, studied what Southwest was doing, and took it to the extreme. He went on to become one of the most successful CEOs in Europe.

Knowing the story, my reaction to this headline is: wow, through testing, they figured out that people buy the ticket rather than wanting to fill out the CAPTCHA.

Great read: http://www.amazon.com/Ryanair-Story-Controversial-Low-Cost-A...

Congrats! There's been lots of buzz about Science Exchange from the life science community so far.

#1 - doesn't Clicktale do exactly this?

I secretly love watching the thought process of people as they fill out a form.

Something else must be in play for such a great standalone service to give the keys to their front door to Facebook. I'm sure tons of time went into this decision and the result was either faster adoption or added sugar to a partnership deal. Either way, I'm interested to see how this plays out and to see what the backup plan is if it all goes to shit.

I miss the days when Google was trying to chip away at Microsoft and paid websites $1 per Firefox download/install. To me, the article is really a heads up for Microsoft. If a channel for search revenue is available, go get it.

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Wow.

I thought the same thing.

Not monetizing this? Where do you think their motivation is coming from (to make the world a better place?)

Google Analytics falls into the same category. You're not paying currency to use the service; you're paying with your metrics. When you think about it in terms of scale, this is way worse. Google is great at taking this data and using it to generate revenue in a number of other ways. Any smart advertiser who uses Google Adwords to buy traffic knows to stay away from Google Analytics. Why would you let the company you're buying traffic from know how that traffic behaves?

The DNS project takes this a step further by giving Google a world of new data. Now you don't have to use Google or be on a site with Google Analytics for Google to know where you're going.

Seems harmless, but I bet they can't wait for this to be adopted by the masses.

With all that being said, 8.8.8.8 is a damn cool IP address and I'm sure my Google-powered Droid already uses it. /rant

In my opinion, don't hire your friends unless they complement perfectly. Even then, have a backup ready in case that person wants to move on.

This is like searching "google" on wolfram alpha trends. Use compete.com if you want to prove a point, not google trends.

Interesting. Is this at the point where one could just buy a slice, run a server, and play around with the client or is Google holding some piece back until they open up their implementation to the public?