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Privacy was pretty poor on their platform, especially after looking under the hood at gmail.

You could do a lookup to [google backend url] and see whether a) google knew the email address and b) whether the email had a g+ profile. I haven't looked at gmail behaviour lately but it doesn't look hugely different.

Hotmail had a similar setup, but they had a FB and Twitter feed, you'd see the data tied in with senders. With them there was no magic backend URL, but since their email product was so poor you could send 00000's of email spoofs to your own address of choice to map email addresses to linkedin/twitter.

That said all of them can be mapped to social profiles given large/clean email db's.

The recent 'leaks' are just an accentuation of how much information the public is leaking by being affiliated with these platforms, regardless of the tech blips

Wee resurrection of this thread

code up with some iframes and javascript

Brad, I think you mentioned potentially having a use for this. See the attached which I've knocked together for Firefox. Some engines have content-security and iframe policies that require a little tweaking before they work in iframes.

Pretty much how I feel. There's the couple of grand it costs for the privilege of being a registrar + the cost of DNS, emails, admin for complains on domains etc. The markup shouldn't be much.

But for the likes of CF the upsells may cover it, in the end someone is paying.

They can't all be ninjas

Perhaps not if the creators of it consider themselves superhuman

Getting the word out is much appreciated.

>rally behind

Sometimes American eyes see the value better :-) DDG recently got some more funding, and they're little more than a skin.

Intense. Hope all concerned find themselves out the way.

Ergo, my G comments was very much tongue in cheek as I see their algo as a black box, they could perhaps have some weighting towards authorities or 'well curated human resources' outside G, I di not know. Of course, they did invest in freebase which is very much similar to wiki.

Being the arbiters of information is ultimately subjective, the issue is G, FB et al pretty much being black boxes. Wiki is great in the sense that their whole decision making process is transparent. The talk pages apparently reach a consensus for more important topics. People reporting stuff or being blackballed on social networks seems more like a black box.

>Neil De Grasse Tyson

Comes across as immensely smart and sociable, but for me Seth Lloyd is very much more eloquent in sharing his wisdom, purely IMO.

As I said in the previous post, it seems things are too centralised, there's a bottleneck at these huge portals. The ideas of consensus, personalisation, AI, filter bubbles surely all play a part- I very much like the idea of information availability being a transparent process. Nightmare for potential spamming mind you.