Tracking
April 9, 2008
I have been looking at current ways to track online activity, one of the main sources that kept craopping up was Trakzor, its a myspace/facebook profile tracker. Facebook have a strict privacy policy which has been very tight so far as there are no current trackers which can be implented into facebook apps.
There are different methods in how to track online use, for my IDAT204 organism project with Chris Speed we looked at traffic coming intot eh pc and displaying it through a visual program (Processing).
I came across an IE css tip, developed by Jeremiah Grossman on fire fox but then developed again on IE by Christian Heilmann
Taking a few steps futher i decided to look at RSS feeds, they mainly stream live news feeds to a specific site.
Here is my attempt to get some news from CNN.com:
I am now curious as to know if I can use this on a social privacy level. Facebook mention an app called Bloglines, so they already acknowledge it as a legitimate piece of coding.
More to follow…


