It might indeed have quite a lot of potential but on the other hand I am already annoyed when websites are geo-ip'ing their language setting based on my "alleged" location. But maybe enough behavioral targeting is going to segment myself into the leave-me-alone user group.
In general, I find this approach incredibly annoying. Usually I would rather see the canonical version of a given site.
Hypothetical example: because I'm running Linux and in the US, a site shows me content/software geared towards US Linux users. However I am trying to find a solution for a Windows issue with my girlfriend's laptop, who is based in Ireland.
And a similar but different anecdote: Steam has consistently refused to let me pay for games with my US credit card while I'm in Europe. I have to use a VPN for the payment to process. Wat?
Do you think a simple link in the footer which says 'Opt me out of this targeting' would help you? In general people appreciate personalizing content for them, but I agree some may not like it.
It doesn't look like you've obtained permission to duplicate the design (and you've stripped it of the ®). I like the way it links through to a page which exalts people getting 'good karma'. Indeed.
I also noticed that whilst you linked through to XKCD for using the comic, that's pretty much the bare minimum you can do to satisfy the attribution requirements for his Creative Commons: it'd be better to include a small text link since it's not immediately obvious that the image links through to the source, and if I didn't know that it was XKCD I might think you'd come up with it.
Hey, thanks for pointing this out. Getting the first image removed ASAP. Agreed it is copyrighted. But we didn't strip the (r) symbol, we probably reused it from somewhere else. An oversight on our part.
Regarding attribution, I always make sure I link them back to original source. But I agree with you that text attribution would be much better way to properly do the citation.
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[ 5.0 ms ] story [ 30.1 ms ] threadHypothetical example: because I'm running Linux and in the US, a site shows me content/software geared towards US Linux users. However I am trying to find a solution for a Windows issue with my girlfriend's laptop, who is based in Ireland.
And a similar but different anecdote: Steam has consistently refused to let me pay for games with my US credit card while I'm in Europe. I have to use a VPN for the payment to process. Wat?
http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp
http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/about-us.php
(I've screengrabbed here: http://imgur.com/8DKAq)
http://images.authenticjobs.com/hiring.v1338305725.png
It doesn't look like you've obtained permission to duplicate the design (and you've stripped it of the ®). I like the way it links through to a page which exalts people getting 'good karma'. Indeed.
I also noticed that whilst you linked through to XKCD for using the comic, that's pretty much the bare minimum you can do to satisfy the attribution requirements for his Creative Commons: it'd be better to include a small text link since it's not immediately obvious that the image links through to the source, and if I didn't know that it was XKCD I might think you'd come up with it.
Regarding attribution, I always make sure I link them back to original source. But I agree with you that text attribution would be much better way to properly do the citation.
http://www.tineye.com/search/74af78427fac53916cfb9e82fa674f4...
Kudos for doing the right thing and updating both.