Huffington said the Great TechCrunch Transparency Experiment will commence when the site unveils its redesign in the near future.

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The site is part experiment, part provocation, highlighting how easily embarrassing intimate information can be gathered in the Internet era.

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Now Fresno, California, is about to be the site of an unusual experiment aimed at getting private investors to put money into prevention.

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GM's site doesn't let you experiment with the options, or even let you know if other options are available.

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Andrew Sullivan, whose Daily Dish blog is the site of another closely-watched paywall experiment, recently added a new, more flexible subscription option as well.

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It ended the experiment because it seemed to be cutting traffic to the site and harming advertising revenue.

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In particular, she described her research experiment to apply the ideas of semantic analysis to what people discuss in a social site like Twitter.

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