Why I'm Leaving Facebook, Part III
Part I Part II This is the third and last installment in my little series about why I'm leaving Facebook. There are a few things that I want to address in this final post on the matter, and they are...
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May 31
May 12
Why I'm Leaving Facebook: Backgrounder on Web 3.0
PART I At the end of my last post about why I'm leaving Facebook, I made a pretty bold statement: that Web 3.0 is, in part, about the loss of privacy. I'd better explain what I mean by Web 3.0, since...
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May 5
Why I'm Leaving Facebook (Part I)
When I started writing this blog post, I was going to explain that I'm leaving Facebook for two reasons: Because of their disregard for their users privacy, baiting and switching their users...
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Apr 7
A Quick Look at Facebook Spidering and Scraping
Remember my post about Pete Warden releasing the data that he collected spidering Facebook? It seems that Facebook wasn't very happy about that idea and threatened to sue him into oblivion if he did...
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Mar 29
What was that? Facebook wouldn't do something like that!
Facebook will be passing your info along to "pre-approved" sites as you move around the internet without telling you. Your info is big business, so hand it over and step out of the way! Or better yet...
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Mar 16
A Sign of Things to Come
MySpace is selling off some raw user data. This can only be seen as the first in a long line of such moves by all the social networking sites as they compete for access to clients for "their" data...
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Mar 1
The Upside-Down Pyramid: Portugal
Here's another example of the upside-down pyramid in action, this time from Portugal. The Portuguese, Brazilians and various former Portuguese colonies periodically enter into negotiations over the...
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Jan 23
Facebook Never Promised Not to be Evil
So don't get in their way. http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/23/facebook-vanity-url-harman/ I promise not to mention Facebook for a few weeks now, at least.
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Jan 19
Why Facebook Can't Escape From the Privacy Problem
The Canadian Privacy Commissioner is going to be consulting on online data collection and data-profiling. It's a good thing that the phenomenon be examined in a forum like this so that whats and the...
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Jan 17
Facebook, Twitter and Your Credit Rating
You had to know that this was coming. Not only does information want to be free, it wants to be used. Apparently, there are some companies selling Facebook and Twitter data-mining services to banks who...
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