So I went to ad:tech today in San Francisco which was held at Moscone Center. Allot of vendors giving away cool stuff including beer, tshirts and other stuff. I met allot of cool people.. anyway, below are some photos I took of the conference.
The weather has actually been really nice here in Cupertino for the past week and all this weekend. Today was also really nice, so I decided to go for a ride and explore some areas. I ended up going down El Camino for a while and then headed over to Shoreline drive to check out the Google plex.
The Google campus, and the buildings look really nice.
I would use Netscape.com all the time back in the day. Its really sad how it has become a clone of Digg, and it just lifeless. The site even has a Microsoft Windows Vista banner ad at the bottom of the site. I remember back when the browser wars were in full effect. Here is a link to the Alexa traffic data so you can see for yourself.
MasterPlanTheMovie.com has created a short video regarding the power of Google, and provides information regarding the free services they offer and some possible research around those free services. It paints a sinister picture of Google’s intension’s and its ability to compromise ones privacy. The content and theory behind this is very interesting, but I would hope that Google would not do something like this.
You can view the video here. I would be interested to hear other peoples thoughts on this video.
A Silicon Valley based company named Trusted ID which had launched IDFreeze sometime last year has launched StolenID Search. This site allows you to type in a social security or credit card number into the search box to see if your card or SSN has been compromised. If it turns out your credit card or social security # (SSN) are on the internet, Trusted ID will pitch their IDFreeze product to you to help you get some kind of control over your data. Below is a description from the website:
StolenID Search is a free service that tells you if your personal information has been stolen or compromised. With our easy–to–use search engine, you can search more than two million pieces of compromised personal information—credit card and social security numbers—to see if your information has been misused.
Now if you are putting your info into this site, you deserve to have your data on the internet. How can we be sure that StolenID cannot be hacked, and that data cannot be stolen from them? Now I understand that just by having a SSN or credit card number without all the other information might not do you any good, but still? I’m sure someone out there could use this typo of information to track someone down..
