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Firefox 22 Won't Block Third-Party Tracking Cookies
: Why Mozilla Delayed Default Blocker And How Your Privacy Is Affected — Privacy and Security — Mozilla announced it will be delaying the default block on third-party cookie tracking in the upcoming Firefox 22 citing additional testing as the reason for the hold.
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Piggybackr Gives Kids a Kickstarter of Their Own
— As fans of Girl Scout Cookies can attest, students with little to no entrepreneurial experience are perfectly capable of both fundraising and selling-at least in the analog world. But doing it online proves more of a challenge.
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Has Facebook Lost Faith in Social Ads?
— After Once Vowing to Transform Online Advertising, It's Increasingly Embracing Standard Offerings — Has Facebook lost faith in the potential of social ads and its mantra of “word-of-mouth marketing at scale”? — The company once publicly …
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Apple Rejecting Apps Using Cookie-Tracking Methods, Signaling Push To Its Own Ad Identifier Technology Is Now Underway
— Mobile app developers using a technology called “cookie tracking” (sometimes called “Safari flip-flop” or “HTML5 first party cookies") are starting to have their apps rejected …
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Firefox to follow Safari, start blocking cookies from third-party advertisers
— Firefox is set to start blocking cookies from third-party ad networks by default, thanks to a patch submitted by Stanford law student and online privacy activist Jonathan Mayer.
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Does Facebook Praise Kill Self-Control?
— One hateful Facebook comment might reduce you to tears, but a recent study found that the “likes” prompted by your status updates and photo posts might also have a negative impact, especially on your waistline and pocketbook.
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First Details On Facebook's “View Tags” Cookie Ad Tracking That Shows Sales From Impressions
— Facebook is on a quest to quantify the value of its ads, and TechCrunch has attained the first public details on its recently expanded ad tracking program called “View Tags” that looks beyond clicks.
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Windows 8 Tips — Tips and tricks for Windows 8 users.
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry? Come on in! — Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project. It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
How ImgPage Uploads 25 MB Photos to Cloud Files Using the Mailgun API — The team over at Mailgun just posted a Python tutorial written by Mailgun customer Paul Finn about how to use Python and the Mailgun API to upload large images to Cloud Files.
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR — Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review. Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).