Google Drive...to get your stuff.
I've always had the attitude that any company that has to remind it's staff to 'Do No Evil' is either employing the wrong sort of people or is trying hard to hide the fact that they might not be parag…
Tagged: privacy
If it ain't on your machine, it ain't yours.
Yesterday I found out that Yahoo had pulled the plug on the Delicious application, amongst a few other APIs and services. There will no doubt now be a spate of articles about how to move your content…
Google's 'mistake' maps all UK WiFi networks...
Some weeks ago, a story broke about Google recording data about WiFi networks when they were wandering around taking family snapshots with their now infamous fleet of 'Streetview' cars. At the time, …
Social Search...waste of time?
I'm a big user of search engines. Despite my grumblings and pontifications on here about Google, I still use them the most because they're still the best out there. I hope that Bing - despite the da…
Facebook would like you to share even more....
There's an episode of 'The Simpsons' in which Lisa sets out to determine whether a hamster or Bart is the more intelligent for a school science project. She does this by applying electric shocks to t…
Facebook user hypocrisy or common sense?
I came across this article in my Twitstream today about how young professionals are changing their name and doing other things to camoflage their presence on Facebook and other social networking sites…
Facebook and the panic button....
Since the recent case in which a teenage girl was groomed and murdered by a paedophile via the Facebook site, there has been a lot of pressure from the UK Government for Facebook to put a 'Panic Butto…
Google Buzz and Google's incursion in to Social Networking
Many years ago there was a joke in techy circles that likened Microsoft to the Star Trek aliens 'The Borg'. It appeared at the time (mid 1990s) that Microosft were indeed determined to assimilate eve…
We know where you've been on the Net, and we don't need no steenkin' cookies!
I'm not overly paranoid about people knowing where I've been on the Internet; I'm aware that it's pretty easy for a website to feed your browser 'tracking cookies' that can be used for marketing and a…
ACTA - Why is the Government not informing MPs about this Agreement?
Have you heard of ACTA? How about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement? No? Well, you're probably not alone. After all, here in the UK the Government won't even put documents regarding the Agre…