That means viewing some profiles requires an investigator to register or "friend" a user, which risks revealing his or her tracks.
And there's going to be advertisers that are willing to pay for some of the profiles, and not for the other profiles.
The ads lead to a spiffy and very helpful website, discoveramerica.com, which profiles some 250 locations and experiences nationwide, along with practical information on transportation, accommodation, visa requirements, money and more.
There the curious can chat with a missionary, or browse some 80, 000 profiles to find Mormons who are like them.
In forums that look like Twitter feeds or Facebook pages, sales teams can share leads and information about clients (some of it gleaned from profiles on public networks), ask for and get speedy approval of discounts and slap one another virtually on the back for clinching a deal.
Some 975, 000 of the profiles were taken from people who have never been convicted of an offence.
Interestingly enough, both profiles above manage to include some data on this point.
Griffith proved what many had suspected for some time: that edits on company profiles were often originating from IP addresses owned by those companies and even their competitors.
From the recent internal Collaboration virtual conference at IBM (see my earlier post on this event, Tackling The Multi-Tasking Work Environment), I found two other interesting frameworks that inspire some thinking: collaboration personae and collaborative work profiles .
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Users of dating sites are typically encouraged to report suspicious behaviour and some sites employ sophisticated software designed to flag bogus profiles.
Dealers sometimes try to make fake profiles harder to detect by randomly following some famous and some average people, or posting tweets grabbed from the Twitter stream.
Three days before launch, the site already had profiles of close to 1, 000 journalists, some more detailed than others.
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More photos can do some good, but after five, my analysis suggests, profiles pass a point of diminishing returns.
Today it holds the profiles of more than five million people and is credited with helping solve some 40, 000 crimes a year.
Home Secretary Alan Johnson has said in 2008-09, some 79 rape, murder and manslaughter cases in England and Wales were matched to DNA profiles taken from people who had been arrested but not convicted of any crime.
Restaurant profiles provide users with location, website, phone numbers, and estimated wait times, while some control is also put in the hands of the diners with a rating option that allows the users to breakdown the wait time by none, short, long, and full.
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Some elements simply aren't fully integrated into Big Picture, either -- viewing your friends' full profiles, for instance, opens up the Steam web browser, as does reviewing purchase history.
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