Herbert Mühlburger's Blog

I decided to delete my Facebook account. For all of you who ask now: Why did you do so? Here are my main reasons that led to this decision: Privacy issues I want to be in control on the data that I share I am concerned about my privacy and therefore I do want to [...]

Web personalization and personalized recommendations are recently gaining more and more interest. Companies like Amazon, Google, Netflix, The New York Times, Facebook, Twitter, … already personalize their products in different ways. If you take Google’s search results as an example. Have you ever noticed that a friend of you gets different search results as you [...]

Have you ever asked yourself if why your employer is not really able to motivate you to love your work? One of the reasons why people are motivated doing what they do is because they see a purpose in their work. This fact you already see in “Maslov’s Hierarchy of Needs“. The following video demonstrates [...]

The following video visualizes some recent social media statistics interestingly. Quite impressing how social media has developed over the last year. Facebook for example has gained 200 million users in just one year. That’s incredible … (via crowdspring and mashable) Related articles by Zemanta Socialnomics Revisits ‘Social Media Revolution’ (socialtimes.com) Facebook Status Updates Show Which [...]

Mashable has just published a post titled “Nobody Can Stop Facebook Because Nobody Understands Facebook“. There is an interesting sentence in this post: Have the nuances of online privacy become so complex that they’re beyond the comprehension of mere mortals? I’m not saying that Facebook has any intent to cause confusion, but the complexities of [...]