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January 19th, 2006, 06:19 PM
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Using Amazon.com for data mining...
http://www.applefritter.com/bannedbooks
In the article he describes some of the current work being done by the government to research people foreign and domestic. He then discusses ways that Amazon.com can be used to do datamining on peoples reading and purchasing habits via some scripting and their publicly available wishlist functionality.
Interesting read...
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