In early 2013, Steve Lohr of the New York Times published an article where he tracked down the origin of the phrase “Big Data”. He found several different sources, and declared that it originated in the mid-1990s. But… he specifically opted to conclude that the very earliest source he could find – from 1989 – …
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When you visit BuzzFeed, they record lots of information about you. Most websites record some information. BuzzFeed record a whole ton. I’ll start with the fairly mundane stuff, and then move on to one example of some slightly more scary stuff. First: The Mundane Bits Here’s a snapshot of what BuzzFeed records when you land on a …
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On June 10th 2014, at 8am, Nominet (the UK domain registry) launched “.uk” domains. In other words, I could now move this site to “http://barker.uk” rather than “http://barker.co.uk”. To announce the launch – the biggest change to UK internet addresses in many, many years – Nominet have launched what they call “the world’s largest welcome sign”, …
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Part of the email marketing industry in the UK is built around this phrase: ‘in the course of a sale or negotiations for the sale of a product or service’. Those are the conditions under which – if you have collected an email address – you are allowed to send marketing emails (b2c), even if …
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The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) have launched a new advertising campaign. It hinges on 2 key messages: Foreign labour is damaging the UK. Much of UK law is controlled from overseas. Here are two of their posters covering these issues: Based on this, you may think they’d be keen on UK technology. Yet …
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Here’s the front cover of the Daily Mirror. A haunting image of a starving British child, crying their eyes out. Only… the child is from the Bay Area, and the photo was purchased from Flickr via Getty Images… Here’s the source of the original image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/4084544644/ (Here’s a happier one taken the following day: https://www.flickr.com/photos/laurenrosenbaum/4086511962/. Apparently she was …
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If you’re reading this, you will know that US Airways sent an incredibly lewd photo to one of their passengers in response to a complaint. Here is the massively censored version of the Tweet: The 2 Key Events: Very shortly before the US Airways tweet, the @ARTxDEALER Twitter account posted ‘the photo’, addressing the Tweet …
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You may have noticed these fake ‘Log into Google’ pages appearing more and more. They (and equivalents for other services) have very quickly become one of the main ways hackers use to steal other users’ accounts: (look carefully at the URL) The usual solution put forward to avoid falling for these is to ‘use 2-factor …
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Dan Barker has worked across more than 200 brands in areas covering: Strategy, Marketing, Customer Satisfaction, Research, Technology, Data & Analytics. He is currently CMO of a fintech business with 11-figures in assets under management, co-owns some smaller businesses, works as a non-exec, and as a trustee of a charity with activity related to causes …
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