Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 14th Nov 2007 09:57 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Here's a tour of the pre-alpha demo release of GNOME Online Desktop included in Fedora 8. Learn more about what it does and how you can get involved in the project, writes Havoc Pennington.
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RE: Stick it up your clacker!
by superman on Wed 14th Nov 2007 12:58
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RE: Stick it up your clacker!
by thryllkill on Wed 14th Nov 2007 16:24
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"For example, if you often listen to a certain musical artist, we or an advertising partner with whom we share your personal information might display an advertisement alerting you to the release of a new CD by that artist."
Which is not entirely terrible. Something very similar goes on with last.fm, which gets the tunes I listen to from Amarok. What I would want to avoid would be incessant reminders of bands and cds that are like the stuff I listen to. Music execs and marketing droids are terrible at gleaning likes and dislikes from playlists.
RE[2]: Stick it up your clacker!
by yahya on Thu 15th Nov 2007 10:05
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"For example, if you often listen to a certain musical artist, we or an advertising partner with whom we share your personal information might display an advertisement alerting you to the release of a new CD by that artist."
Which is not entirely terrible. Something very similar goes on with last.fm, which gets the tunes I listen to from Amarok.
Which is not entirely terrible. Something very similar goes on with last.fm, which gets the tunes I listen to from Amarok.
Except that last.fm has far less information about you than mugshot: Apparantly, mugshot's main functionality is to register all your online accounts at one central place: flickr, picasa, youtube, gmail, last.fm, del.icio.us, your IM address, your facebook or myspace account - normally these are separate. Last.fm only knows, what I listen to. It does not know my favorite web sites (del.icio.us), nor what virtual friends I have a myspace (I don't have any, btw!) and what my favourite youtube videos are. mugshot attempts to gather all that information in a single place.
One could say that mugshot looks like an open source version of big brother.
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2005-10-10
As you use Mugshot, we may collect other information relating to you, such as the content of any messages you post and the activities you undertake as you use Mugshot, for example the links you post and the music you listen to. If you choose to install the Mugshot software on your local system, music that you listen to on your local system will automatically be listed in your profile information. You may disable and re-enable this passive publishing of your music history at any time. As part of the Mugshot service we may provide this information to other users of Mugshot. We may also use this information to tailor advertising to you and make recommendations to you about other music, websites and content you may like. For example, if you often listen to a certain musical artist, we or an advertising partner with whom we share your personal information might display an advertisement alerting you to the release of a new CD by that artist.