As Internet trends go, the practice of publishing Web logs, or "blogs" for short, has followed the usual trajectory.
It was only when a number of Web logs began linking to the site over the weekend that AOL removed the file.
Now, consider that most of what we think of as "big data" is created by deliberate human action: phone calls, Web logs, credit card transactions, etc.
According to Technorati, a blog search engine, a hundred and twenty thousand Web logs are created each day, and the number of blogs now exceeds seventy million.
Potential targets for acquisition include Moveable Type, a software-based Web-log service, and Radio Userland, another desktop software product used for publishing Web logs produced by privately held UserLand Software of Acton, Mass.
These are big bets, but the Internet's unique strength lies in letting users personalize their news, communication and entertainment online, in Web logs and instant messages, file sharing, search queries and personal software.
"There is no sense of whether this directive even applies to web search logs, " he said.
Web server logs can tell which URLs are resulting in 404s but it can also show in real time which items are going into online shopping carts, which items are being purchased, and which are being abandoned.
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The group found computer records, or logs, detailing what Web pages the Blue Coat devices were censoring in Syria.
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Web content differs from call center logs and wireless communications.
In the last month, Anonymous has received about 20 requests from people through various channels including e-mails to AnonOps, via members who deal with media and legal enquiries, on public IRC logs and through its new Web presence AnonLeaks.
Reports have been circulating that devices running Android 4.2, rumored to be code-named Key Lime Pie (though it's seeming more likely that it will retain the Jelly Bean moniker), have been popping up in server logs and benchmarks across the web.
The widgets work with cookies that Facebook places in a Web browser when a user creates an account or logs in to its site.
The Web giant has long suffered from the perception that its massive logs of information violate users' privacy.
All of these logs are then sent to your secure Mobile Spy account which you can access from any web browser.
The logs show the Blue Coat devices were filtering the Internet activity of individuals who were accessing the Web via Syrian IP addresses.
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Tancer is the curator of 10 million users' Web browsing records--the complete history of every click and every search term--pulled from the logs of Internet service providers (ISPs) around the world who have either sold the data to Hitwise or traded it for free analysis.
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