I can count on two hands the number of people that know and trust Victus Media. We’re tiny. We’re ghosts. We’re two Jekyll an Hyde founders that are ambitious, and driven to unlock great value from socially shared data. We’re passionate about this space because we see immeasurable value slipping through the cracks. The value is leveraging automated systems to learn more about us as users, in a way we’re comfortable with and in control of.
Amazon product links have an interesting optional functionality called Product Preview. It has had other arcane names in the past (link enhancer), but has a similar functionality to Snapshots. Basically when you mouse over an enhanced link, the browser renders a small image with detailed information.
Jeff Bezos formally apologized a couple of days ago for pulling stolen data off of customer Kindles. It was a genuine request for forgiveness from a CEO (pretty good stuff Jeff). But that doesn’t change the fact that Amazon is still the administrator of your hardware. The frighteningly fast growing trend is for new technology to be remotely administrated and updated. Why is this frightening? I’ve put together a short list of reasons why losing local administrator rights for an individual or business is bad. (more…)
I took some liberties with one of Robert Scoble’s pictures