http://www.ampersand.com/blog Links and observations about VoIP, Presence, messaging, open source, blogs, and associated impact on society. Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:48:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The good folks at the EFF are running project Panopticlick -- with the tagline "How unique -- and trackable -- is your browser".    Turns out browsers will reveal lots of information about your system, even with cookies turned off.  E.g. your set of plugins (got shockwave?), your screen depth, ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/28/yikes-my-browser-footprint-is-unique/ Perhaps overshadowed by the Tuesday election results from my home state, and by the google china squabble, Hilary Clinton gave an address yesterday in which she outlined 5 key internet freedoms that the United States supports.   Her speech shows a surprising and wonderful degree of understanding of the value ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/22/us-outlines-5-internet-freedoms/ I followed the random twitterfall this morning to the Edge question of the year: How is the Internet Changing the Way you Think. An answer came right to mind, and I thought I'd make this my first post of the year.     The internet rewards clarity of purpose in a ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2010/01/08/how-is-the-internet-changing-how-you-thin/ I'm in the process of working with a friend on a new online store, and it's been very interesting to be "practicing what I preach" with site design, user experience, SEO, open source tools, blogs, video, and social media strategy.  And it's been a huge amount of work -- more ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2009/11/13/how-to-keep-your-email-off-of-blacklists/ As you all recall, we moved Ampersand to google apps about a year ago. One thing we've been enjoying is how google silently puts new goodies in the google labs area. Every couple months or so I click into settings on each of my apps ... http://www.ampersand.com/blog/2009/11/01/fun-updates-with-google-apps/