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Privacy Browsing Extensions in Google Chrome

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Using two Chrome Extensions, Disconnect and AdBlock you can be sure of having a vary very clean browsing experience-it is recommended especially if you dont like the auto sharing of your personal preferences and cannot be bothered by the Byzantine maze of social media privacy fineprint.

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jeoacafpbcihiomhlakheieifhpjdfeo

Disconnect by Brian Kennish

(184) – 44,284 users – Weekly installs: 24,086

Stop major third parties and search engines from tracking the webpages you go to and searches you do.

* Search depersonalization is now optional and off by default. Click the “d” button then the “Depersonalize searches” checkbox to turn this feature on (or back off in case you have trouble getting to Google or Yahoo services). For help with anything else, see the known issues below and ask questions at http://j.mp/dnewgroup.

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If you’re a typical web user, you’re unintentionally sending your browsing and search history with your name and other personal information to third parties and search engines whenever you’re online.

Take control of the data you share with Disconnect!

From the developer of the top-10-rated Facebook Disconnect extension, Disconnect lets you:

• Disable tracking by third parties like Digg, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Yahoo, without requiring any setup or significantly degrading the usability of the web.

• Truly depersonalize searches on search engines like Google and Yahoo (by blocking identifying cookies not just changing the appearance of results pages), while staying logged into other services — e.g., so you can search anonymously on Google and access iGoogle at once.

• See how many resource and cookie requests are blocked, in real time

and

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom

Extensions > AdBlock




AdBlock
 (6937) - 1,615,373 users - Weekly installs: 153,032



The most popular Chrome extension, with over 1.5 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.


Verified author: chromeadblock.com





Install

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New in version 2.1: Translated into dozens of languages!
New in version 2.0: Ads are blocked from downloading, instead of just being removed after the fact!

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The official AdBlock For Chrome!  Block all advertisements on all web pages.  Your browser is automatically updated with additions to the filter: just click Install, then visit your favorite website and see the ads disappear!

FAQs:1. This is the official AdBlock extension: the original ad blocker written from the ground up to be optimized in Chrome.  There's an unrelated, older Firefox project called Adblock Plus, and they're working on making a Chrome version out of the old AdThwart codebase.  At the moment AdBlock blocks some ads that AdThwart only hides, but they're working to improve it.  It's available at bit.ly/id2Gqx; if you have trouble with AdBlock, they're good guys and a fine alternative!

Most Popular Firefox Extensions and Posts of 2010 [Video] (lifehacker.com)
Ex-Googler Helps Users Disconnect From the Social Web (readwriteweb.com)
10 Google Chrome Extensions for a Faster Browser (friedbeef.com)
IE9 Gets Built-In Ad Blocking (informationweek.com)
Click&Clean, Browser Add-On To Delete Temporary Data, Improve Privacy (ghacks.net)

Who searches for this Blog?

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Using WP- Stats I set about answering this question-

What search keywords lead here-

Clearly Michael Jackson is down this year

And R GUI, Data Mining is up.

How does that affect my writing- given I get almost 250 visitors by search engines alone daily- assume I write nothing on this blog from now on.

It doesnt- I still write what ever code or poem that comes to my mind. So it is hurtful people misunderstimate the effort in writing and jump to conclusions (esp if I write about a company- I am not on payroll of that company- just like if I write about a poem- I am not a full time poet)

Over to xkcd

All Time (for Decisionstats.Wordpress.com)

Search	Views
libre office	818
facebook analytics	806
michael jackson history	240
wps sas lawsuit	180
r gui	168
wps sas	154
wordle.net	118
sas wps	116
decision stats	110
sas wps lawsuit	100
google maps jet ski	94
data mining	88
doug savage	72
hive tutorial	63
spss certification	63
hadley wickham	63
google maps jetski	62
sas sues wps	60
decisionstats	58
donald farmer microsoft	45
libreoffice	44
wps statistics	44
best statistics software	42
r gui ubuntu	41
rstat	37
tamilnadu advanced technical training institute tatti	37

YTD

2009-11-24 to Today

Search	Views
libre office	818
facebook analytics	781
wps sas lawsuit	170
r gui	164
wps sas	125
wordle.net	118
sas wps	101
sas wps lawsuit	95
google maps jet ski	94
data mining	86
decision stats	82
doug savage	63
hadley wickham	63
google maps jetski	62
hive tutorial	56
donald farmer microsoft	45

Ways of Optimizing Blog in Search Engines (cash-bandit.com)
SearchCap: The Day In Search, November 23, 2010 (searchengineland.com)
Do You Want Increased Income? Chango Could Be The Answer (wassupblog.com)
Domain.com Announces Industry’s First Natively Integrated Browser Domain Search (prweb.com)
Why Keyword Research Matters and Link Building Doesn’t (danlew.com)
Six rules for producing optimised web content (econsultancy.com)
Consumer Watch Dog Group Files Complaint with the FTC Regarding Data Mining, Profiling Algorithms – Privacy With Health Information At Risk With Insurer and Employer Usage (ducknetweb.blogspot.com)
Find the Question to your Yahoo Answers! (seomoz.org)

Great App for Online Sketching

Here is a great app for sketching online.

Its on at http://mugtug.com/sketchpad/

and fabulous graphical control on browser – it took me ~ 3 min for this sketch and it’s really much paint than on my desktop

DirkE and JD swoon about Shane's MOM in Room 106 while writing R code

In a shadowy room in cyberworld , two geeks plot revenge on a common

blgger and up vote each other on stack overflow while discussing Shane’s MOM

–http://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/106/2010/11/15

How can you announce this on SO?

Oh…

Sure…go for it.

I’ll downvote it.

🙂

We should also add it into the [r] wiki.

I added it to the wiki.

stackoverflow.com/tags/r/info

We should probably try to clean that up a little; some of the other tags have put a lot of effort into it. (e.g. stackoverflow.com/tags/java/info)

Whoa! I didn’t downvote your post.

Dirk Eddelbuettel

I was wondering…
Feel free to upvote it to set it back to even.

3:18 PM

I did.

Someone voted to close too.

Some people take themselves way too seriously…

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Yup. And not unlike the people constantly call for community-wiki.

BTW I didn’t see the button for CW anymore once it was posted. What am I missing?

I think that I may have seen something about a bug related to that…

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Four close votes, and -2 score. Whoa Nelly.

Ha! I’m not overly surprised. Meant to suggest that you use CW…

Ironically, you’re still ahead in the rep. on this question, right? Although I think that it might get downvoted into oblivion before we’re done…

I up-voted. Dirk, I’ve got your back. 😉

Begin……

3 hours later…

8:09 PM

@DirkEddelbuettel you catch Ajay’s latest? ow.ly/3a8gK

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Jeebus

I had actually unsub’ed from his feed. Now I know why. How you’re doing with the Yahoo Pipes app?

Methinks he has some sort of clinical compulsive condition given how every single post has to include a reference that his facvourite software company from NC, and/or members of their management team.

@DirkEddelbuettel I stumbled on that one in Twitter. pipes project has been tabled while I fight some other battles.

I think he’s fishing for SEO sugar with his posts. His use of words seems contrived to include key words over and over

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Twitter is so useless, between him and Ed Borasky’s (znmeb) spambots nothing else of value appers.

I guess like so many streams it requires filtering. The basic twitter blocking takes them out prett

y quickly

Dirk Eddelbuettel

So blocking is common? They ought to show that: “subscribed to N, listened to by M and showing good taste by blocking O asshats”

8:19 PM

ha! yeah that would be good signaling. Not sure how common it is, but I use it mostly for spam bots. I actually have only blocked 2 warm blooded humans (counting Ajay’s multiple accts as one person)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Oh boy 🙂 Romain has fired a salvo on r-devel: “Depends on what your goal is: getting the job done, or learning about the R/C API”. Hehe.

@JDLong Tell who: One is Shane’s mother, and the other is … ?

speaking of shane’s mom, he and Josh deciding to be productive members of real society today?

Dirk Eddelbuettel: inline 0.3.7 (dirk.eddelbuettel.com)
The New Orleans Hornets’ Jason Smith: Is He The Next Dirk Nowitski? (bleacherreport.com)

LibreOffice News and Google Musings

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Official Bloggers on LibreOffice- http://planet.documentfoundation.org/

Note- for some strange reason I continue to be on top ranked LibreOffice blogs- maybe because I write more on the software itself than on Oracle politics or coffee spillovers.

LibreOffice Beta 2 is ready and I just installed it on Windows 7 – works nice- and I somehow think open Office and Google needs an example to stop being so scary on cautioning—— hey,hey it’s a beta – (do you see Oracle saying this release is a beta or Windows saying hey this Windows Vista is a beta for Windows 7- No right?)-

see screenshot of solver in LibreOffice spreadsheet -works just fine.

We cant wait for Chromium OS and LibreOffice integration (or Google Docs-LibreOffice integration) so Google starts thinking on those lines (of course

Google also needs to ramp up Google Storage and Google Predict API– but dude are you sure you wanna take on Amazon, Oracle and MS and Yahoo and Apple at the same time. Dear Herr Schmidt- Last German Guy who did that , ended up in a bunker in Berlin. (Ever since I had to pay 50 euros as Airline Transit fee -yes Indian passport holders have to do that in Germany- I am kind of non objective on that issue)

Google Management is busy nowadays thinking of trying to beat Facebook -hint -hint-

-buy out the biggest app makers of Facebook apps and create an api for Facebook info download and upload into Orkut –maybe invest like an angel in that startup called Diaspora http://www.joindiaspora.com/) see-

Back to the topic (and there are enough people blogging on Google should or shouldnt do)

-LibreOffice aesthetically rocks! It has a cool feel.

More news- The Wiki is up and awaits you at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation

And there is a general pow-wow scheduled at http://www.oookwv.de/ for the Open Office Congress (Kongress)

As you can see I used the Chrome Extension for Google Translate for an instant translation from German into English (though it still needs some work, Herr Translator)

Back to actually working on LibreOffice- if Word and Powerpoint is all you do- save some money for Christmas and download it today from

http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/

Download and install this for the International version to be used on Microsoft Windows.

Oracle wants LibreOffice members to leave OOo council (arstechnica.com)
Install LibreOffice on Fedora and Ubuntu (ghacks.net)
Good riddance Oracle! Now can LibreOffice make a difference? (zdnet.com)
KDE Still Does Not Support LibreOffice (techrights.org)

Microsoft Online Games

No, this is not about the X Box kind of games. It is about Microsoft ‘s tactical shift in the online space from going it alone, and building stuff itself, –to partnering, and sometimes investing and exiting business.

In Blogs- It recently announced a migration of MS Live Spaces to WordPress.com – It gives Automattic 30 million more users- no small change consider there were 26 million existing WP users.

Microsoft Messenger, which is the oldest online app in the suite, now provides instant messaging services to about 350 million users, and from now on Windows Live Writer works specifically with the WordPress.com blog service by default. Hopefully Skype, and Google Voice will show MS the way to monitize that business app yet.

Google buying blogger-blogspot seems to have done little, but given Biz Stone room to create another content disruption-Twitter.

With the round of lawsuits by proxy, in Android -Motorola, or for acquisitions – MS is just doing what Marc Anderseen (who’s apparently a better VC than Paul Allen was), Sun and co did to it in the nineties.

Google seems to be regretting putting a spade in the Yahoo acquisition- that would have tied up a big chunk of Idle MS cash- leaving it little room for niche investments (like the 250 mill that helped Facebook ramp up in time).

The real surprise here could be Apple- it has shown little interest in cloud computing- and it seems to be testing the waters with Ping. But Apple sure smells competition- and Android is doing to Iphone what Windows did to the Mac in the early 1990’s.

Google lacks presence in online gaming (despite it’s own Zynga investment)- and needs to start monetizing properties like Android OS (say 10$ for every phone license ??), Google Maps (as an app for GPS) and Google Voice. Indeed it may be time for the big G to start thinking of spinning off atleast some products- earning better returns, while retaining control (dual stock splits) and killing those anti trust lawyer fees forever.

As the Ancient Chinese said, May you live in interesting times. Fun to watch the online games people play.

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