Facebook‘s launch of instant personalization caused an uproar in the blogosphere. The company ran a pilot with sites such as yelp.com, where if you are logged in to Facebook and visit these sites, the content served would be personalized based on your profile information. Users have the option to opt out. Blogs talked and talked [...]
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Growing privacy concerns
Posted in Internet, tagged behavioral targeting, consumer affairs, credit card, e-commerce, ecommerce, facebook, facebook.com, instant personalization, law, legal, linkedin, mark zuckerberg, online marketing, online privacy, personal, privacy, privacy concerns, privacy issues, retargeting, segmentation, targeting, webloyalty, yelp, yelp.com on July 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rainy New York
Posted in Rants, tagged new york, personal, Rants, weather on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I really really dislike rainy New York. It rains all day and night without an end in sight, and with no prior warning. Like my Mom says, in the US you cannot trust 3 things: weather is one of them; I fail to recall the other two! It is dark and gloomy all day, and [...]
My little sister is not so little anymore…
Posted in personal, tagged family, personal, sister on April 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My little sister was once my best friend. I used to boss her around, and she always gave me the scoop on my extended large family. She was so irritating and kept chatting away till I lost my cool. Whenever I cooked rotis (Indian bread) she talked so much and distracted me, so much so [...]
Death
Posted in About Me, personal, tagged personal on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I hate death, especially of loved ones. Well, who doesn’t! I heard of a few deaths of late. My grandparents (dad’s side) passed away 2-3 years back. My grandmother was so fragile and sweet. Last year, my husband’s grandmother passed away. Last week, someone from my old company passed away (Vivek Patel). I interacted briefly [...]
