Profiling

created by Webster 1913

(thing) by tim_three (3.6 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Jan 26 2000 at 4:09:41

transparent accumulation of user data, most commonly for marketing purposes, but can also be used to create irresistable personalized content (personalization).

See also: Like minds

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:15:44

Pro"fil*ing, n. Fort.

In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.

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Who says discount card profiling isn't fun?	Predatory Policing	Audioscrobbler	The problem is you're not paranoid enough!
Muhammad Rafiq Butt	Untime	Apple System Profiler	And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget
Profile	Realizing just as the drunken brawl gets going that this time, you are the asshole	DoubleClick Master Database	DoubleClick
Atkins Diet	AFC	Venkman	benchmark
path profiling	How to Win Friends and Influence People	Angina	Frank Black
Rules of program optimization	Instrumentation	Al Franken's 2002 Harvard Class Day Address	David Keirsey

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