Tag Archive | "cluztr"

Tags: , , , , , ,

Share Your Browsing History

Posted on 30 October 2007 by Nion

Forgive me if I’m mistaken, but don’t most people want to keep their tracks covered while surfing the internet? In a virtual world where privacy is a dying concept, Cluztr has come along to coax people out into the open.

Cluztr, yet another social network, is a browser add-on that collects its users’ browsing history so that people can share their clickstreams with one another. That’s basically it. Through this, Cluztr aims to enhance exploration and interaction on the Internet. It also claims to do away with the need for bookmarking because it logs a history of every place you visit, and it encourages socialization over solitude because anyone you share your clickstream with can follow you around on the web.

Um…am I the only one who doesn’t like the idea of being stalked on the Internet? Seriously—it’s no fun. But don’t think that means I’m anti-Cluztr. Just like Spock, I think Cluztr is cool and creepy at the same time. The things making Cluztr less creepy are the facts that 1) you do have to sign up in order to be profiled and 2) you can set your clickstream to “private.” Under those circumstances, I think Cluztr is pretty cool, because it basically acts as a personal history tool. I still don’t like the idea of my browsing history being stored online, though.

While anyone who spends their time browsing sites they have no business visiting will probably avoid Cluztr like the plague, the rest of the world can check it out at www.cluztr.com.

Comments (3)

Email Subscription

Sedo - Buy and Sell Domain Names and Websites project info: thetechbrief.com Statistics for project thetechbrief.com etracker® web controlling instead of log file analysis