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I think that this blog is turning in to a Facebook privacy blog, or should the EFF pay me for making people aware of privacy concerns. Leo Leport is reported to be leaving Facebook, there is also another gaggle of tech people leaving facebook. This is all happening over privacy concerns. So why worry about the tech people leaving, Well the tech people gave it the start, and now they could be giving it the end! Jason Cancans writes about it in his blog The read-write-web also blogs about it.  Some of the privacy issues are listed below with Facebook.

Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebook-timeline

Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook

Yet another Facebook privacy risk: emails Facebook sends leak user IP address
http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/07/yet-another-privacy.html

A Stunning Infographic on Facebook’s scary privacy evolution
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

Facebook’s “Posts By Everyone” Feature: Do People Realize They’re
Sharing To The World?
http://selnd.com/96avG4

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter |
Wired.com
http://bit.ly/aoNxf0

Senators Call Out Facebook On ‘Instant Personalization’, Other Privacy Issues
http://tcrn.ch/907D27

Facebook’s email days: “I’m CEO bith@#$%!”
http://bit.ly/ba5wRY

Facebook’s new features secretly add apps to your profile
http://bit.ly/bHXpH5

The Day Facebook Stole My Page
http://bit.ly/ar4A4As

Facebook is Dying – Social is Not
http://bit.ly/atwbzX

Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces” | Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://bit.ly/9ww6g3

Ubuntu 10.04 is out, this is the major Release for Ubuntu. Well it looks since ubuntu 9.04 that ubuntu is getting its act together, and taking on M$ and Apple. The focous has changed on the project and is now more user based, and breaking away from the nerds. Which means that its becoming mainstream. This is a good thing, If the nerds adopt, then you have got a real chance of the non-nerd users adopting. The Cloud services that Ubuntu is adding on, Could be the key to Monetizing ubuntu, and making it all pay. Maybe people will eventually realize that a computer is a computer and an OS is just an OS, Just as a word processor is just a word processor, and doesn’t have to be Word. or word 2003 or Word 2007 or what ever version of word we are on!… On thing I hope with Open office, is that UI design stays consistent, as having to explain the differences between the familiarity between office 2003 and office 2007, can take up considerable time and can waist considerable amounts of brain cycles.

Face-book has done it again, privacy settings have been changed, or modified, basically you have to opt in to privacy. The EFF have came out against this again.

Go to Account > Privacy Settings > Applications and Websites > Instant Personalization Pilot Program and uncheck “Allow”–it’…s at the bottom of the page.

I surpose its just facebook being “facebook”, and making sucking us into the facebook web! where they can monetize us!

Well I’m not sure if this is a first or not, but it caught my eye reading “The Paper” as in the Irish examiner, where Facebook posts were used to help clear his dentist client of sexual assault. it think that this is an interesting development, It seems that Facebook is moving in to everywhere, even the courts.

Looking for a way to get around wireless charges on 3g with more than one device! I haven’t seen this on O2 or any other Irish providers, but it could be handy!
http://www.novatelwireless.com/