Monday, December 29th, 2008
Facebook foolishness
I like Facebook, and I use it a lot, but I don’t trust random applications that ask for access to my profile data or want to be able to post on my Wall, so I don’t add them even when people I like ask me to do so - I’ll settle for the few apps [...]
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Facing the Music
[As ever, this is also on the BBC News website]
The coming year is not going to be a comfortable one for Facebook.
It might just manage to avoid upsetting its users with new services like Beacon, the misjudged advertising feature that told your friends about your purchases.
It might spot fake profiles of famous people, like the [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in billblog by bill
Sunday, November 25th, 2007
I fought the law…
[As ever, you can also read this on the BBC News website]
Like most journalists of my acquaintance I’m very sloppy about keeping my online communications secure.
I rarely encrypt email messages, leaving them to be read by anyone in the electronic chain between me and the intended recipient.
And I use public chat services like MSN Messenger [...]
