websites are installing new and intrusive consumer-tracking technologies on the computers of people visiting their sites—in some cases, more than 100 tracking tools at a time. Follow @whattheyknow on Twitter. What matters is that they show you at least some of the tracking activity that’s going on. The tide turned today. MORE >>

Twitter is full of links to other websites. For a long time you needed to use URL shorteners to ensure you stayed within Twitter’s 140 character limit. Now Twitter has its own URL shortener – t.co – that converts every link that is shared. Communities TechnologyMany people like to share things online. MORE >>

Tweet Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared on Twitter this past week. However, one can design sophisticated tools to significantly expand what people can accomplish when performing these activities.  Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Jobs in the Age of Watson  - via @raesmaa [automated & outsourced]. MORE >>

In a global context, Australian banks were fairly slow to adopt the use of social media, however more recently a number have become a lot more active as they recognize its fundamental importance to their future. Twitter: * CBA, NAB, and Westpac are very active on Twitter. Vindaya Senadheera, Prof. Get serious! MORE >>

and we spent more time today talking Twitter. started off class today by asking if Twitter really was something new under the sun, or if it was instead largely similar to previous collaboration technologies. Tweets and Twitter, we concluded, are: Concise. Twitter, in sharp contrast, is a single pool of digital content. MORE >>