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#42
'Delete Facebook account' trending on Google
Ouch, that’s gotta hurt.
Visit: http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/05/14/delete-facebook-account-trending-google/
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#41
The final word on Apple/iPhone/Adobe/Flash
…has probably not been said yet, but John Gruber sums it up very nicely:
Apple has made its choice about how it wants to compete, and there’s nothing Adobe can do about it — other than proving Apple wrong by shipping compelling excellent software for Android.
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#40
Drupal v. Django
Nick Sergeant on Django v. Drupal:
Because Drupal stores so much configuration and definitions of functionality in the database, it becomes incredibly difficult to version control the software.
And much more. I don’t agree with everything on that list (I happen to like SQL), but at Reveal IT, we use both Django and Drupal, and while Django is much nicer for building applications from scratch, we still prefer Drupal for CMS-y tasks, since building those in Django quickly becomes very complex as well.
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#39
Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch: We’re Going To Make The Best Tools In The World For HTML5
We see whatever people are using to express themselves. … We’re going to make great tooling for HTML5. We’re going to make the best tools in the world for HTML 5.
Sounds good, Dreamweaver could do with an upgrade.
But look at the iPhone helicopter we just saw — why should I only be able to use an iPhone for that? Why can’t you do that with any phone? If you look at what’s going on now, it’s like railroads in the 1800′s. People were using different gauged rails. Your cars would literally not run on those rails.
Hilariously bad simile. I would be surprised if he really thinks that the differences are as simple as the distance between to parallel bands of metal.
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#38
Major Facebook security hole lets you view your friends’ live chats
The irony is that the exploit is enabled by they way that Facebook lets you preview your own privacy settings. In other words, a privacy feature contains a flaw that lets others view private information if they are aware of the exploit.
I know Facebook wants us to share more information and open up, but I’m not sure that this is quite what they had in mind.
Security is hard, let’s go shopping…
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#37
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
Dan Yoder on why you should delete your Facebook account. You should read it.
I deleted my Facebook account years ago. If you at all value your privacy, you should too.
Visit: http://www.rocket.ly/home/2010/4/26/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook.html
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#36
Facebook’s “Evil Interfaces”
Following up on EFF’s message on Twitter:
The world needs a simple word or term that means “the act of creating deliberately confusing jargon and user-interfaces which trick your users into sharing more info about themselves than they really want to.” Suggestions?
It is hardly surprising that they’re referring to Facebook here, and also comes up in some of the suggestions. I like “Zuckermining”.
It’s more than two years ago I deleted my Facebook profile in disgust over their blantant disregard for privacy, and things have only worsened since then…
Visit: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfaces
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#35
Steve Jobs’ thoughts on Flash
Steve Jobs does a throrough explanation on Apple’s reasoning for not including Flash on their mobile devices:
Laying down the hurt:
Symantec recently highlighted Flash for having one of the worst security records in 2009. We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash.
But the main reason is probably this:
We cannot be at the mercy of a third party deciding if and when they will make our enhancements available to our developers.
And this definitely doesn’t help either (concerning Cocoa):
Adobe was the last major third party developer to fully adopt Mac OS X.
I won’t spoil the conclusions here, but its definitely worth a read. I think it’s good to see Apple taking a stance for open web technologies, regardless of their selfish motives for doing so.
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#34
Using a custom font face for icons
This is ingenious:
Conceptually, if we deconstruct a font down to it’s basic elements, we can make use of this technology for things other than type, icons.
I don’t know how you come up with stuff like this, but it sure is an awesome and clever use of technology :)