Professor Nigel Shadbolt on Privacy ...

Hello All,

My PhD supervisor wrote an article on privacy in the UK newspaper "The  
Times".

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6458149.ece

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On 9 Jun 2009, at 11:33, Yuk Hui wrote:

> indeed, bbs is 'still' very popular, in Harry's list, there is this  
> wretch.cc, which is a taiwanese website, it started as a bbs, and  
> now its way of social interaction is still based on those bbs  
> mechanisms. but it is also attempting to transform by integrating  
> with more services, for example photo/video/music sharing. also it  
> is interesting that they actually develope a new bbs way of  
> interaction through these integrations
> btw, harry, i tried to edit the wiki, but so far it didn't recognize  
> my w3c public account...
>
> yuk
> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 12:50 AM, Oshani Seneviratne <oshani@csail.mit.edu 
> > wrote:
> Apparently BBS (Bulletin Board Systems) seems to be *still* very
> popular in Taiwan. According to my friend who uses it quite
> frequently, during peak hours popular forums may have around 500,000
> users. This is not really comparable to the numbers for the top social
> networking sites today. But it's fascinating to see that people are
> still using this 80's way of social networking! :)
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 7:18 PM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is a pretty good list.  Though, alexa is only one measure, it
> > seems to be pretty good.
> >
> > If amazon makes the list, I think the following 3 are worth at  
> least a
> > question mark:
> >
> > Google?
> > Yahoo?
> > MSN?
> >
> > Skype has over 440 million registered accounts, according to wiki,  
> so
> > is probably worth a mention, too.
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Harry Halpin <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>  
> wrote:
> >> I went through the top 100 sites from Alexa and got some of the top
> >> sites. I'll try to go through more! One of the most obvious  
> problems
> >> for myself is that lots of sites I think *may* be social networking
> >> sites are not in English. In particular, speakers of Chinese,
> >> Japanese, and Russian are needed to investigate to see if some of
> >> these are actually social networking sites.
> >>
> >> Here's the list:
> >>
> >> http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/socialweb/wiki/TopSocialNetworkingSites
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Oshani
>
>

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