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Comment: most apps are likely using it for analytics (Score 1) 194

by updog on Saturday October 02 2010, @12:55AM (#33768494) Attached to: Many Top iPhone Apps Collect Unique Device ID

The UDID is really useful for collecting analytics, such as with Flurry Analytics. You can really easily get nice graphs and charts on how users in aggregate are using your app, or drill down to any particular (anyonymous) user based on the UDID. For these analytics to be useful, you need to specify some type of unique identifier for the device. A UDID makes perfect sense, and there really isn't any standard or easy way to map the UDID to any particular user anyway, so it's hard to see what all the fuss is about. Regardless, the app should let the user know the UDID is being logged, and allow them the option to turn the logging off.

Class Action Lawsuit against Seagate-> 0

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updog

on Monday October 22 2007, @02:21PM

updog writes "Today I received an email entitled "Notice of Seagate Hard Drive Class Action and Proposed Settlement". The email describes that "the plaintiff alleges that in the sale and marketing of hard disc drives, Seagate stated that purchasers of the drives would receive approximately 7% more usable storage capacity than they actually received." The details of the lawsuit can be found here.

While wild marketing claims need to be kept in check, so do frivolous lawsuits. The fact that the lawyers (who will receive up to $1.792 Million) profit far more than any individual who may have been mislead (who get 5% of the net cost of the hard drive) really disturbs me.

What would you do — exclude yourself from the settlement, object it, or submit a claim?"
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Inside MySpace.com 250

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday January 16 2007, @04:38PM
from the like-Topsy dept.

lizzyben writes "Baseline is running a long piece about the inner workings of MySpace.com. The story chronicles how the social networking site has continuously upgraded its technology infrastructure — not entirely systematically — to accommodate more than 26 million accounts. It was a rocky road and there are still hiccups, several of which writer David F. Carr details here." From the story: "MySpace.com's continued growth flies in the face of much of what Web experts have told us for years about how to succeed on the Internet. It's buggy, often responding to basic user requests with the dreaded 'Unexpected Error' screen, and stocked with thousands of pages that violate all sorts of conventional Web design standards with their wild colors and confusing background images. And yet, it succeeds anyway."