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User Interface Hall of Shame

I’m taking MIT’s 6.831: User Interface Design and Implementation through their free OpenCourseWare website. One of the homework assignments is to find two examples each for the “UI Hall of Shame” and the “UI Hall of Fame”. This post is for shame — and since the nominee has so many things to discuss I’m only [...]

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Maintaining “Privacy” Under the New Google Privacy Policy

I put “privacy” in quotes, because under the scheme below you’re still giving up a lot of data, but you can (I think) still maintain “silos” of data so that, for example, your search data isn’t correlated with your YouTube or GMail data. See What Actually Changed in Google’s Privacy Policy from the EFF for [...]

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