Interesting Snippets from 2013-04-15

• I'm Being Followed: How Google—and 104 Other Companies—Are Tracking Me on the Web - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic

  Who are these companies and what do they want from me? A voyage into the invisible business that funds the web.

• panzi/SocialSharePrivacy · GitHub

  Social Share Privacy is a jQuery plugin that lets you add social share buttons to your website that don't allow the social sites to track your users. The buttons are first disabled and a user needs to click them to enable them. So in order to e.g. like a site on facebook with these social share buttons a user needs to click two times. But in return for this extra click a user can only be tracked be this third party sites when he decides to enable the buttons. Using the settings menu a user can also permanently enable a social share button.

• shareNice - Awesome URL Sharing Service

  Our goal is to provide an ethical social sharing widget. We want your users to be able to share your web pages with their friends through social networking sites without having to give any information away to money-making third parties.

• The Beauty and Joy of Computing

  The Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) is an introductory computer science curriculum developed at the University of California, Berkeley, intended for non-CS majors at the high school junior through undergraduate freshman level. It was one of the five initial pilot programs for the AP CS Principles course being developed by the College Board and the National Science Foundation. We offer it as CS 10 at Berkeley.

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