A cadre of DevOps experts will gather later this week at an undisclosed location in Northern California. The goal: To hash out issues they see in their own shops, to compare notes on problems and talk in a way that they cannot in vendor-driven conferences. Read more »
Israeli startup Personyze is linking with one of the web’s most controversial data collection companies, Rapleaf, to provide new tools for website owners. Can its attempt to help ordinary website owners turn information into actions really solve the big data puzzle? Read more »
ETacts, one of the many social CRM companies, is shutting down, according to an email sent out to its users. ETacts competes with the likes of Rapportive and Gist. The company, which was incubated by YCombinator had raised $650,000 from angel investors earlier this year. Read more »
The issue of online privacy has become such a highly charged topic that whenever Facebook or Google overstep the line between data collection and personal privacy, all hell breaks loose. And as that line continues to blur, social networks and online services would do well to ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Pingg, About.com, picture service TwitPic, Flixster, Plixi.com are some of the dozens of startups that are using San Francisco-based Rapleaf and inadvertently helping the company build accurate dossiers on many of us. The Wall Street Journal investigation shows Rapleaf knows a whole lot about you. Read more »
With nearly 400 million consumer profiles, Rapleaf is a key data provider to everyone from banks, retailers, anti-fraud firms and a whole lot of startups. Whichever way you look at it, Rapleaf is part of any Internet privacy conversation that affects you. Read more »
In the analog world of J.Crew catalogs and credit card purchases, credit bureaus like Experian built profiles on most of us. In the digital world, a new kind of digital data aggregator is spreading its tentacles on the web. Rapleaf is one of them. Read more »
