Filed under: Business, Internet, Web services, Google
Google says no to behavioral targeting
Even though Google wants to make the best possible choices when it comes to connecting users with relevant products and services, they are very cautious about tracking behavior.Google has stated that they are turning away the possibility to develop tools to compile user's actions in a profile to deliver more targeted ad results. Competition might be heading this way, but Google is not going this route for a number of reasons. First off, they believe that task based information at the exact time of the search is that most relevant information the user is looking for. Secondly it's the user's privacy. No information is stored on Google's servers, everything happens in one search session alone.
Mailing lists are an essential community and support tool, and I myself participate in a good handful ranging from beta tests to individual app support and even simple enthusiast chatting on one topic or another. In my experience, I've found that a number of things do and don't work from both a management and participant side, and I thought it would be helpful to start a discussion about these best practices to see if I'm on the mark, or if you readers have other ideas that should make the cut.
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
