Why your Facebook profile isn’t as private as you think - Holy Kaw! - #SocialEngineering #Attack #Security #Facebook

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I posted a question yesterday re the use of facebook data (http://p.incontext.mobi/facebook-phishing-attacks-facebook-is-the-new). This article does answer a bit of things but we don't provide our credit card or bank account details in facebook.

Also read this http://www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090827_e.cfm

Why Aren't VCs Backing Augmented Reality? via readwriteweb

Why Aren't VCs Backing Augmented Reality?

Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / October 29, 2009 3:01 PM / 0 Comments
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tatAR150.jpgSome people believe that Augmented Reality (AR), the class of technologies that place images or data on top of other views of the physical world, could be the web browser of the future. AR has rocketed out of the research labs and is catching mass market interest fast - from mobile phones displaying restaurant reviews when you look at a business through your phone's camera to next month's Esquire Magazine, which you'll be able to hold up to your webcam to see marker-based 3D "holograms" in your hands telling you jokes.

The International Symposium on Augmented and Extended Reality this month had major sponsors from all around the world, including Qualcomm, Volkswagon, Intel and Nokia. Despite all this energy, media darling startup Layar were reported to have raised...a mere $1 million investment from venture capitalists. Why are VCs not investing more in Augmented Reality? Here are three reasons why we think investment in this sector has been slow so far.

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Good arguments...

Implicit by design rather than descriptive text

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Watching for small things these days has greatly improved my ability to see the obvious, believe me its brilliant feeling when you see art in action everywhere (most places anyways). 

How much of descriptive text can be removed from your programs, manuals.. by simply being implicit in your design and making the choice for your user (or implied choice in case of radio buttons / check boxes). 

In conversation with a colleague of mine. Talking about being descriptive in text to inform the user of something. I remembered the notion of providing a handle in early Macs to show the user that after he opens up his cardboard box how to pull the Mac out of the box.

Here is the example I have given to him in layman terms.. If you are having a pressure cooker how do you know which part of pressure cooker you can touch when hot?