Facebook: now what?

Well, Facebook tends to be one of my favorite topics . It’s not my fault that every now and then I will come across with something worth commenting, pointing out or at least communicating it from here as well.
This time it’s a privacy issue which affects not only registered users but all those using third parties related to Facebook in favor of Facebook by obtaining unauthorized private information via its ad system, Beacon. It’s another thing to suspect about “Big Brother“-like issues and another thing to have them reported (Computer Associates has brought up the issue). Definitely Facebook is not the only one (I’m not daydreaming) but numbering 54 million users (let alone the related third parties) makes me more skeptic and reluctant on using it. Why joining when issues like the aforementioned are already known and served? Entertainment and communication (of such kind, if any…) versus ignorance (here you may choose a word that suits you).

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also related: this and this
(a bit long but worth reading posts as they explain in more detail).

Gmail 2.0

Well, I don’t like talking about new services unless I have tried them myself, however, this comes from googletutor.com and usually they’re not spreading fake rumors, therefore, I’ll take my chances and if I’m proven wrong, don’t forget to criticize me and stone me to death .

It seems that Google is gradually deploying a Gmail 2.0 version as an upgrade to its users, let’s wait and see what they came up with this time (read here).

Web 2.0 and more…

Motivated by my supervisor’s, prof. Paul Johannesson (SYSLAB), uploading this video about Web 2.0 on the lab’s homepage, I spent some time browsing youtube for some interesting videos related to it. It is a term that is quite often misused constituting it one of the hottest buzzwords of our days . Obviously, there several videos available, but here’s what i came up with:

Tim O’Reilly on What is Web 2.0

The Machine is Us/ing Us by Dr. Michael Wesch