By Nicholas Kolakowski 2009-02-06 With MySpace and Google releasing similar applications, Facebook has already moved to allow users to port their data around the Web via Facebook Connect. In the next stage of building open distributed-identity frameworks across the Internet, Facebook officially joins the board of the OpenID Foundation.On Feb. 5, Facebook announced that it would [...]
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5 Feb
Privacy fears over Google tracker
Google has announced a new feature that allows users to share their locations among a chosen network of friends. See Video The “opt-in” Latitude service uses data from mobile phone masts, GPS, or wi-fi hardware to update a user’s location automatically. Users can also manually set their advertised location anywhere they like, or turn the [...]
5 Feb
Google Quietly Declares E-Mail War on Yahoo
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Many people have sent an e-mail while angry, exhausted, inebriated or just by mistake that they later regretted. Now, Google has a way to help protect you (and others) from such a faux pas. As part of its quest to attract users to its Gmail service, the Internet search company has [...]
