Monthly Archive for April, 2010

Facebook’s watching you, brother. « IO 9elements

There is a potential side-effect of the new facebook “like” button, which has currently not reached public awareness, but it probably should.It starts when you leave the facebook website. I usually don’t log out, my friends don’t log out, and in fact most people don’t log out. We all know this is too much of a hassle.Now, if I visit a website which has integrated the “like” iframe, facebook might just know that I am there. Because I didn’t log out before. And why shouldn’t facebook track the referrer combined with the user id of every requested iframe?

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Verizon FiOS TV to Offer EBIF-Based HD Interactive TV App During Showtime Boxing Telecast | InteractiveTV Today

Verizon FiOS TV said Wednesday that it will offer “Showtime Sports Interactive“–which it bills as “the first nationwide, high-definition interactive television application using the Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format” -

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