They communicated a fundamental misunderstanding to Xbox users: that advertising is fun and is a positive part of the user experience rather than a detractor from user experience.
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"It is generally speaking the one of the most hated pieces of user interaction on the web, " said Aaron Young, from user experience consultancy Bunnyfoot.
For example, YouTube forbids a user from posting copyrighted materials if the user does not own the copyright.
One large problem in making this work is the need for a cross-site user identity, one that links together the activity from one user in all of the different networks.
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But instead of encrypting the traffic in both directions, it instead spoofs the traffic from a Web site to a user to make it seem to be coming from any Web site that the user wants to test.
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As you know, when a Facebook user gives access to an application, the application has to get permission from the user to access their data.
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The agreement also requires Facebook to obtain user consent before it makes any changes that override existing privacy preferences and to prevent anyone from accessing user content within 30 days if a user cancels his or her account.
Data from Google shows the number of requests for user information from law enforcement agencies are at an all time high.
The lens is not necessarily a boundary that separates the user from visceral experience.
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Both features came from user requests and both update to all Pogoplugs worldwide via an automatic firmware upgrade today.
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It is ready to shoot in only 0.5 seconds after start-up saving the end-user from missing a shooting opportunity.
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Digg.com, whose executives couldn't be reached for comment, isn't the first site to face legal problems from user-generated content.
This is experience architecture and it borrows from user experience or UX.
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There are countless repositories of fantastic educational content, from user-generated and curated sites to Open Education Resources to private sector publisher sites.
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The Orphan Drug Act, enacted in 1982, provides incentives--including tax credits and exemption from user fees--for the development of drugs for rare diseases.
After signing the screen with a finger five times, the app can reliably distinguish the speed and pattern of the user from forgers.
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Meanwhile, just as YouTube is shifting gently away from user-generated content and the long tail, Apple is making key changes that could signal something significant.
The magnetic disk backs up all files residing in the NAND, protecting the user from inevitable NAND wear and preserving it for the more hot data handling.
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We think that this approach will provide ample opportunity for mobile-first companies that think about the mobile user from the ground-up and focus on their needs without any pre-conceived notions.
Any unmatched songs are directly uploaded from user's library to the cloud offering 100 GB of storage for all unmatched songs, so users can access rare or personal recordings across their devices.
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As the value flowing from user data has a ripple effect on all the sides of business models, users become part of business operations, thereby blurring the line that used to separate consumption from production.
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Starting in 2002, receipts from user fees began to drop significantly, thanks largely to the impact of a slower economy and increased sales of gasahol, an Ethanol-based fuel that isn't taxed for the Highway Trust Fund and is heavily subsidized--thanks to the farm lobby and the efforts of Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ).
The encrypted key is what is necessary, along with the user's ID and password, to obtain access to the user's account with the bank, and it reflects information about the laptop from which the user is accessing the bank's website.
Would you rather buy a Wieder weight system from someone whose user id is "foxtrot" or from Sears?
Most recently, critics, including some federal regulators and U.S. Congress members, objected to a revamped Google privacy policy that pulls user-activity data from the company's multiple products together to create a single user profile.
Measured in average minutes per user, the user engagement on Yahoo sites has fallen from 336.4 minutes in January 2009 to 247.9 minutes by April of this year, according to Internet market research firm comScore, a 26% decrease.
This will signal that Apple is getting closer to generating more revenues from its user base.
We wait 14 days between receiving the request from the user and deleting the account.
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