Facebook again
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008The BBC have discovered that it’s easy to write a Facebook application that will, when loaded on a users profile, harvest all sorts of information about that person and their contacts. If the BBC are the first people to think of doing this, I would be really surprised, yet there seems to be a level [...]
That data thing again
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008This story from the BBC highlights the latest arguments that are raging over online information. Apparently, the Press Complaints Commission are to undertake consultation about whether newspapers should be able to re-print information that individuals have made available on sites like Facebook and MySpace.
The impetus for this seems to be that individuals who have seen [...]
I feel a rant coming on
Thursday, August 30th, 2007So, it’s late (around midnight) and as I’m on holiday I’ve had a few beers and have been surfing around. Cruising Facebook, as you do, I came across a group called “I secretly want to punch slow walking people…“; fits me to a T, because I’m tall and EVERYONE walks too slowly for my liking. [...]