Marco De Cesaris

Facebook Reveals its User-Tracking Secrets

Marco — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:36:30 +0000

Facebook doesn’t track everybody the same way. It uses different methods for members who have signed in and are using their accounts, members who are logged-off and non-members. The first time you arrive at any Facebook.com page, the company inserts cookies in your browser. If you sign up for an account, it inserts two types [...]

The benefits of sorting data

Marco — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:22:45 +0000

Sorting also can streamline processing. comScore sorts URL data to minimize Web site taxonomy lookups. Instead of loading the 40 URLs for Web site pages in the order they were visited during a session, sorting might reveal that 20 of those pages were on Facebook, 12 were on GMail and the balance were at NYTimes.com. [...]

How The CIA Uses Social Media to Track How People Feel

Marco — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:15:03 +0000

How stable is China? What are people discussing and thinking in Pakistan? To answer these sorts of question, the U.S. government has turned to a rich source: social media. The Associated Press reports that the CIA maintains a social-media tracking center operated out of an nondescript building in a Virginia industrial park. The intelligence analysts [...]

Recap of my daily reading – 20111104

Marco — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:16:16 +0000

The War Between Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple China envoy Zhang Yan in India map outburst Ireland to close embassies to Vatican, Iran and E Timor China mine disaster: Dozens trapped by ‘rock burst’ Many companies pay no income taxes, study finds Sandwich arrest stirs debate over eating in stores Too posh to push? More C-sections [...]

Jobs data improve in October

Marco — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:21:40 +0000

Automatic Data Processing, a payroll-processing firm, said Wednesday that private-sector employers added 110,000 jobs in October, while outplacement consulting firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas reported a decline in job cuts. Source: CNNMoney Here is a simple frequency analysis of the full article: Unique words:228 Total words:491 Freq. Word 9 JOBS 8 EMPLOYMENT 7 CUTS 6 [...]

Just created my personal sliding sidebar (have a look)

Marco — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:42:35 +0000

…and included my twitter account in it Since tweetboard is not working anymore, thought to sort it out myself. If you need the code feel free to ask me, and will be happy to send it over. PS Need to replace the “add me” button with “my tweets” button

The importance of customer data and social media

Marco — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:59:56 +0000

Findings from IBM showed that in the next three to five years, 82 percent of CMOs surveyed worldwide will increase their technology investment in social media, and 81 percent plan to focus on customer analytics and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, two technologies designed to help them address the impending issues and concerns surrounding the [...]

Nokia offers free wi-fi in central London

Marco — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:20:26 +0000

From today until the end of 2011, the public will be able to use the high-speed service in certain parts of the city courtesy of the phone firm. If the two-month trial is deemed a success, the Finnish company plans to turn it into a fully fledged free wi-fi service early in 2012. Source: bbc [...]

Server-Side Cookies vs Client-Side Cookies

Marco — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:53:55 +0000

Here the main differences: Server-side cookies are persistent data, similar to the usual client-side cookies. Whereas the size of cookies on the client is restricted to four kilobytes per cookie, 300 cookies in total, and 30 per server or domain, server-side cookies do NOT have any size or quantity restrictions. Server-side cookies consist of large [...]

The top 50 of the 147 superconnected companies

Marco — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 16:48:51 +0000

Source: NewScientist When the team further untangled the web of ownership, it found much of it tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies – all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity – that controlled 40 per cent of the total wealth in the network. “In [...]