SkyHook Wireless is sitting on the greatest behavioral corpus known to man. This software that powers the location based services for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch is a self-learning map of wireless access point to GPS locations. They seeded this database over the past several years by war driving across the US [...]
Note: I wrote this several months ago and never published it because I felt it was unfinished. However, this is a good introduction to another article I’m writing so I’m publishing it before it’s quite complete.
Update (4/21/08): Looks like my discussion on tracking by Bluetooth has actually been done by the CS department [...]
This is part two of a multi-part series. Part one can be found here.
Online advertising is a multi-billion dollar business. Google has become one of the worlds most recognized brands by selling ads on its search result pages and putting context ads on websites. Yahoo and Microsoft are working hard, and spending [...]
This is part one of a multi-part series. The series is continued, here
The Semantic web has been touted has Web 3.0 and the next evolutionary step in internet communications. A Scientific American article from 2001 told us what we should expect of a semantic internet. This is how devices should [...]
I’m building a system that maps a user’s IP to a physical location. This kind of stuff has been around for a while, and it’s so easy I don’t understand is why it’s used so infrequently. It’s as though it’s seen as a tool for the mega-corp ad networks like Yahoo and Google/DoubleClick, [...]
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