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[BetaNews] Facebook backs off tracking logged-out users: I understand the technical reason for that -- they can store the timestamp as a primary key in their logging backend and not have to associate benchmarking of each request back to a user. I believe Facebook here when they say that although this is a unique identifier it isn't used to link back to a user id, but it is definitely being logged and it can be linked to a user.

[SecurityWeek RSS Feed] Amazon Launches Cloud-Accelerated Web Browser | SecurityWeek ...: This means that many web requests will never leave the extended infrastructure of AWS, reducing transit times to only a few milliseconds. Further, while processing and memory constraints lead most mobile browsers to limit the amount of work they attempt at any one time, using EC2 frees Silk from these constraints.

[SnaggStuff.com Blog] Facebook Issues Fix for Several Tracking Cookies | SnaggStuff.com ...: Of course, the concern is that you might not want to share everything you’re doing outside of Facebook. Does everyone need to know you listened to a Justin Bieber song, read an article about how to get over your ex, or watched cartoons on Hulu?

[TechCrunch] The Kindle Fire Will Have A Whole New “Cloud Accelerated” Mobile ...: Amazon is taking advantage of its Web services and EC2 compute cloud. Instead of waiting 100 milliseconds for each part of a web page to load, Amazon Silk can cache most of a webpage in the cloud and deliver all the ...

[Soshable | Social Media Blog] The End of Privacy: Facebook Tracks Your Moves Even If You Log Out: Most of the cookies that you highlight have benign names and values.  For example, the “locale” cookie is simply user’s language and country. I do understand some of the confusion around the ”˜act’ and ”˜lu’ cookies.  The poorly named ”˜act’ cookie is a UNIX timestamp with milliseconds and a sequence number that we use to measure and optimize the speed of the site (”˜act’ is an abbreviation for “action”).  We use the ”˜lu’ cookie to identify public computers and discourage the checking of the keep me logged in box.  On single user computers, we use the ”˜lu’ cookie to prefill your facebook e-mail address on the login screen if you have *not* explicitly logged out.

[OSX Page] Introducing “Amazon Silk?: Amazon?s Revolutionary Cloud ...: Pages. Contact · DMCA Policy · Privacy ... In aggregate, this adds seconds to page load times. Conversely, Amazon EC2 is always connected to the backbone of the internet where round-trip latency is 5 milliseconds or less to most web sites rather than the 100 milliseconds seen over wireless connections. In addition, EC2 servers have massive computational power. On EC2, available CPU, storage, and available memory can be orders of magnitudes larger than on mobile devices. ...

[LIVE HACKING] Will the Kindle Fire be Safe for Web Browsing? | LIVE HACKING: Silk uses the power and speed of the EC2 server fleet to retrieve all of the components of a website simultaneously, and delivers them to Kindle Fire in a single, fast stream. Transferring computing-intensive tasks to EC2 helps to conserve your Kindle Fire battery life.

[iFans] Amazon Silk Web Browser Harnesses the Power of AWS – iFans: One of the key features of the device is Silk, a browser powered by Amazon Web Services capable ... Pages that are loaded frequently are cached on AWS, so request and load times are reduced to just milliseconds. Sadly ...

[AppNexus Tech Blog] DevOps in Milliseconds | AppNexus Tech Blog: There are three main components to our DevOps world. They interact with each other and empower our engineers in many ways.

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