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Privacy issue: Google Docs seems to not delete but only hide documents when the trash is emptied

Sonntag, Juli 15th, 2007

ShareWe are going to demonstrate in this article that documents on Google Docs (in July 2007) are not deleted, even after the user asked to empty the trash. We are also going to show that there is an privacy issue with documents on Google Docs: parts of private documents on Google Docs can be accessed [...]

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The current context of the user: great opportunity for incremental business

Dienstag, Mai 1st, 2007

ShareIn the soon to be forgotten “Pre-Internet Phase” of desktop computing developers leveraged the context of the user inside their applications: right click menus offer functionality depending on the context of the application, context sensitive help is trying to provide background information to what the application sees as the current context of the user But [...]

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Management of Data about Data is an issue for all of us

Donnerstag, April 19th, 2007

ShareData about Data sounds like a topic that is interesting only for experts. Most of us probably assume that only those experts can understand what it is all about. And indeed the management of Data about Data is for example in the specialized world of Business Data warehouses (referred to there as Meta-Data Management – [...]

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