New Labs tool allows you to upload data to compare it with changes in search term frequency.

A data typology for social media internetting.

Ryan Carson on the value of iterating quickly on a web page layout based on user feedback.

By Paras Chopra.

Via a plugin in IE7/8, Chrome and Firefox.

Contains a link to the account deletion page, which is apparently quite difficult to find.

Numbers of requests for data and removal by country.

Jon Hicks trials alternatives to Adobe Fireworks.

New startup to be announced at SXSW that will allow independent film-makers to rent their movies online and customise the user experience.

Everett Zufelt on accessibility problems with JavaScript modal windows. Presents a worked example using jQuery modals in JAWS, NVDA and VoiceOver, and provides good analysis and recommendations.

Craig Sharkie’s step-by-step guide to making a star rating control UI element using HTML, CSS and jQuery.

Peter Krantz on how speaking browsers voice separator characters in web page title elements.

IP address and browser characteristics feedback site.

Matt Cronin on footer section design.

Classy, Microsoft.

An EFF project tracking web site user policies (currently 44 of them).

A little research by the WordPress development team on user interface preferences based on 10 variations on the existing UI.

Scott Loganbill on a new analytics service from Betaworks that provides real-time site activity data along with the usual stuff. Costs US$15 a month.

Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt on developing user categories for the Drupal 7 user interface redesign.

Facebook gets in on the demographic and behavioural ad targeting action. What are you doing right now? The advertisers are listening…

Frederic Lardinois is feeling “slightly queasy” about Google's user data (behaviour) based advertising technology.

Phil Butler on Google's recent talk about some of its plans for their user data stockpile which involves data mining to increase the precision of ad targeting. He mentions an opt-out option as well as a tool for users to refine the targeting process by turning off some kinds of advertising that is being described by the company as a pro-consumer feature.

Kelly Fiveash on a recent Google Docs fuckup.

Bruce Schneier on Loopt's and Google's approach to privacy regarding some location-based web services.

Brian Christiansen introduces a new podcast from UIE. The format is one question from a caller, and an answer from Jared Spool and Robert Hoekman, Jr., per episode.

User data aggregation web service that sounds somewhat ominous. From the site: "Lookery pools anonymous, empirical user data from a network of data contributors—no panels, no algorithms—but actual self-reported user registration data."

Mark Boulton and co will contribute user interface work to Drupal 7.