Facebook Buying Instagram Isn’t the Big Data Ownership Story – Yahoo’s Reorg Is

by Jay Garmon on Apr 10, 2012 in Data Ownership
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So Facebook bought photosharing mobile network Instagram for tidy $1 billion this week. In all the furor about whether Instagram is selling out or Facebook is frightened of mobile or if this is further proof Facebook’s IPO will break the NASDAQ, we are obliged to ask what this means for data ownership, particularly for Instagram [...]

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Five Steps to Surf Safely on Public Wi-Fi

by Jay Garmon on Apr 06, 2012 in Security in the Cloud
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One of the great advantages of Software-as-a-Service solutions like Salesforce and Google Apps is that you can access these tools from any Web browser, rather than simply from a PC connected to the corporate LAN. With this reward comes some risk: Your data is now transmitted via Internet connections you don’t control — including public [...]

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What Is Social Data Worth?

by Rob May on Apr 05, 2012 in Backups
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What is the value of a tweet? How much does Yelp value a review? As a participant in the social media economy, how much value does your participation create for companies like Facebook and LinkedIn? These questions came to mind recently as we had a deep discussion at Backupify about the value of data in [...]

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What the ‘Girls Around Me’ App Dust-Up Says About User Behavior (And Your Security)

by Jay Garmon on Apr 03, 2012 in Lifestreaming
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The web-centric moral outrage du jour is currently centered on a tasteless iOS mobile app called Girls Around Me, which in its most polite moments has been decried as a creeper app and in less forgiving terms as the ultimate online tool for stalkers. Girls Around Me aggregates public check-in data and, at the user’s [...]

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In Honor Of World Backup Day I Deleted My Gmail Account

by Rob May on Mar 31, 2012 in Backups
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Today is World Backup Day. The best way to observe this relatively new holiday is to check your backups and test your restores. Data loss does happen, and regular testing of your backups makes sure you are prepared and helps you avoid a catastrophe. I decided that, in honor of this new holiday, I would [...]

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