Archive for March 10, 2008

its a “socialthing”

{ March 10, 2008 @ 2:49 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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This article on TechCrunch is about social networking environments, FriendFeed and Socialthing. There exists websites similar to facebook where you know what all your friends are doing online. The article talks about how Socialthing is easier to use and works with gmail and facebook to register your friends without having to enter in the information again. I know through this class how huge web 2.0 and social websites are, but I don’t think I could ever get into something like this. I spend almost my entire day on my computer, but I have more work to do than to search around to see my friend’s new blog post…no offense.

gmail trouble

{ March 10, 2008 @ 2:36 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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I came across an article releasing news that a gmail application called G-Archiver has tapped into user’s gmail accounts taking all of the data.  It’s a scary thought to think your personal e-mails are freely distributed to these scamming programmers. The article continues to mention it is the user’s own fault that they put their information in a third party application without knowing much about it.  Many companies that use gmail’s features don’t realize gmail has the right to forward information if they are legally obligated to give it.  The article ended by saying you’d be lucky to even get a mention from gmail that your information was provided to another source.  I thought gmail was the best e-mail application ever… but i guess there are some downfalls with it as well.