Evidence

Format Online paper / PDF

"Google’s AdWords was already an auction-based advertising system by 2006, with bids and click-through rates feeding into ad placement."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Google Inc. Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2005

Source authors Google Inc.

Source year 2006

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"By 2017, the Belgian data protection authority found that Facebook tracked the online behavior of people without Facebook accounts for advertising purposes."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title The Belgian Authority publishes new recommendation relating to the processing of personal data by Facebook through cookies, social plug-ins and pixels

Source authors Belgian Data Protection Authority

Source year 2017

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Facebook required people to use the name their friends and family knew them by and explicitly linked that policy to user accountability."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Community Support FYI: Improving the Names Process on Facebook

Source authors Justin Osofsky; Todd Gage

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Facemash let Harvard students rank peers by choosing the hotter of two ID photographs compiled from online House facebooks."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Hot or Not? Website Briefly Judges Looks

Source authors Bari M. Schwartz

Source year 2003

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"Peter Steiner’s famous New Yorker dog cartoon dates from 1993 and became associated with the anonymity of early online identity."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Paying Homage

Source authors Bob Mankoff

Source year 2015

Confidence high

Importance low

Format Web Page

"Ziggy Stardust and the Thin White Duke were among David Bowie’s deliberately created stage personas."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title David Bowie: Images of an Icon

Source authors Victoria and Albert Museum

Source year 2024

Confidence high

Importance mid

Format Web Page

"David Bowie sometimes participated in BowieNet chat rooms under aliases so he could participate anonymously."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Zdtv's Internet Tonight Features Exclusive Three-part Interview With David Bowie June 16 - 18

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1999

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"BowieWorld let users adopt three-dimensional personas and interact in a 3-D chat environment."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Ultrastar Launches Bowienet In The United Kingdom

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"BowieNet offered scheduled real-time chat sessions with Bowie and other artists and celebrities."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Ultrastar Launches Bowienet In The United Kingdom

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance high

Format Web Page

"By the December 1998 UK launch, BowieNet members were given 20 MB to build a personal home page."

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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 9: ARE UNICORNS REALLY WHITE? From Connecting to Selling Us

Source title Ultrastar Launches Bowienet In The United Kingdom

Source authors Mark Adams

Source year 1998

Confidence high

Importance mid