Jim Muttram

Jim Muttram

Google verdict

Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube, a US court has ruled. So reports the BBC. This is a bad thing for the privacy of every YouTube user, but potentially a much worse thing for…

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Jim Muttram

Browser uptake in enterprises

Salesforce.com has just released browser usage statistics for its service which is interesting in that the company's clients are enterprises. What this shows is a much more conservative picture than we are used to: 51.7% of users are still on IE 6 even though IE…

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Jim Muttram

What our readers are really interested in

There's a though-provoking post from Jeff Jarvis commenting on the difference between what people say they are interested in, and what there really are interested it. (The inspiration is the Florida obscenity trial where the defence lawyer used Google Trends data to shine a light…

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Jim Muttram

Getting past inertia

The Point (from Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point, apparently) is a site which aims to get collection action past the critical point when it will work. Users sign up to a pledge (dontate $10, boycott a particular store, etc) but are only committed when…

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