Freedom To Differ (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
TechCrunch's Michael Arrington reports on a fascinating project looking at privacy settings on Flickr: This picture was presented by Elizabeth Churchill, Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo at a meeting I am attending today. It shows the privacy settings of a sample of a million Flickr users from 2005. Red spots...
Gauravonomics Blog (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
(Cross posted on my fellowship blog) TechCrunch and ReadWriteWeb have written about a slide shared by Yahoo!’s Principal Research Scientist Elizabeth Churchill on geographical locations where Flickr users are more likely to post their photos with privacy settings (red) or use the default public setting (green). The sample set was 1 million Flickr users who self-reported [...]
Sixteen Small Stones (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Today on the popular technology blog, TechCrunch , Michael Arrington posted the following map provided by Elizabeth Churchill, who he describes as the principal research scientist at Yahoo! . The map represents data gathered from the popular photo sharing website Flickr.com , which is owned by Yahoo!. Flickr allows users to upload their photos and make their albums public, so that the...
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
This picture was presented by Elizabeth Churchill , Principal Research Scientist at Yahoo at a meeting I am attending today. It shows the privacy settings of a sample of a million Flickr users from 2005. Red spots note users who have photo sharing turned off (private), green shows users who have photo sharing turned on (public). The results are fascinating. The US is widely public except...
