Paul Romein

From the article:

Facebook sometimes makes very curious decisions with respect to user privacy. Recently, one of them came to my attention, and it is so comprehensively wrong that I had to put up a public service announcement about it.

You’ve seen the Facebook “Like” buttons all over the Internet, right? Liking anything lets the owner spam you. No, really. If you doubt me, click the Like button on this page: you’ll find a message from me on your News feed (the big list where you see updates from your friends) within 5 minutes, unless Facebook has shut down this tech demo since publication.

Read the full article:
http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/facebook-like-button-spam

PS – This goes well with the new poll on the side of my blog!

Wave is what email would look like if it were invented today.”

And that is exactly what Google Wave is – revolutionary!  I just finished watching the hour and a bit video from the unveiling presentation made at Google I/O.  This product won’t be launched for several months now, but it seriously looks amazing.  It’s late and I should sleep, but some quick key points can be found in either of these two links:

• A lengthy article
• A really short list of things

It brings together chatting, emailing, social networking – and you can even drag and drop photos from your computer onto the website and it will share them instantly with whoever you have your wave open with.  They will be able to see the thumbnails right away, and the high-res versions will come shortly after – at which point they can click to put them into a full-screen slide show mode.

The most amazing part that I saw in the video, is how it can perfectly live translate chat between languages – literally to the millisecond as you type your message.  Seriously, check out the 1:12:44 mark in the video and your jaw will drop!

This amazing platform will revolutionize online social networking – just walking by my brother surfing Facebook after watching the video… Facebook looked extremely dull.  When Wave comes out to the public in several months, I can see this platform easily rivaling Facebook, and bringing my friends away from that monster.

On a side note – if you got a sec, check out Sky Map for Google Android phones!

Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore. Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.”

• // http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/16/1347230&from=rss
• // http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=54434097130
• // http://www.miss604.com/2009/02/facebook-terms-of-service-update.html

I got hooked reading anti-facebook articles, searching for one that best sums up why I don’t have an account in a way that people might understand.

This article is gold:

http://www.tommyv2.com/07may3.html