Archive for December, 2009

A Digest of what I did on December 7th

Monday, December 7th, 2009
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At last a balanced view on IE6. Well done smashing mag http://viigo.im/1FkY [Scott_Herbert]
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There Is An Island Of Opportunity In The Middle of Every Difficulty.
Miss That, Though, And You’re Pretty Much Doomed. [Scott_Herbert]
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AT&T Drops Lawsuit Against Verizon and its Coverage Slamming Ads http://viigo.im/1FG4 [Scott_Herbert]
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Web giants unite against Digital Britain copyright plan http://bit.ly/8Ew0T4 [Scott_Herbert]
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Listened to Fragile – Sting.
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Listened to Call Me – Blondie.
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My First look at Droid (and Verizon) http://post.ly/E8Ho [Scott_Herbert]
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WARNING: New Facebook Chat Phishing Scam in Progress http://viigo.im/1GRO [Scott_Herbert]
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Google Finance Adds Realtime News Streams http://viigo.im/1GRP [Scott_Herbert]
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Leftist Wins Uruguay Presidential Vote http://viigo.im/1GRQ [Scott_Herbert]
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Source: Google Is Acquiring AppJet, The Company Behind EtherPad http://viigo.im/1GVj [Scott_Herbert]
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Off to the London climet cjange demo. It’s too early and I’m too old. [Scott_Herbert]
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Face to faith: Democratic debate should take in faith-based views http://viigo.im/1H9Q [Scott_Herbert]
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Italian Jury Convicts U.S. Student of Murder http://viigo.im/1Hae [Scott_Herbert]
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http://twitpic.com/s8c53 Is it me or is a big tv on a climet demo a little of a wast of energy? #thewave [Scott_Herbert]
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http://twitpic.com/s8f69 The ICC! Yes the ICC! Everyones here! #thewave [Scott_Herbert]
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And a samba band starts up. #thewave [Scott_Herbert]
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Almost had a photo of the icc and ibt in the same frame dam, still racking up the trotspotting pts at #thewave [Scott_Herbert]
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http://twitpic.com/s8vwm It may be raining but the demo is in good sprits #thewave [Scott_Herbert]
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The Startup Visa And Why The Xenophobes Need To Go Back Into Their Caves http://viigo.im/1Hsb [Scott_Herbert]
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"Accidental" Download Sending 22-Year-Old Man To Prison http://viigo.im/1Hse [Scott_Herbert]
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Web Community Photoshops a Happy Memory [PICS] http://viigo.im/1HGv [Scott_Herbert]
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FACTBOX: Interesting facts about Romania http://viigo.im/1HH5 [Scott_Herbert]
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Facebook to form new on-line safety board http://post.ly/ELzl [Scott_Herbert]
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Facebook to form new on-line safety board

Monday, December 7th, 2009

Facebook has announced that they are forming an advisory board comprising five Internet safety organizations to consult on issues related to online safety.

The board will meet regularly and review existing safety resources Facebook provides to its users, develop new material and advise on general safety best practices.

The first task of the board will be to oversee an overhaul of safety content in Facebook’s help centre.

Facebook has been under a lot of pressure to protect its members lately, from breaching privacy laws in Canada, to being forced to kick off sex offenders, this move appears to a reaction to all that.

Hopefully this will make Facebook a much safer environment for all its users. Now they just have to get rid of the pro-Nazi’s from their site and all that’s wrong will once again be right.

Story and Image From Reuters

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My First look at Droid (and Verizon)

Friday, December 4th, 2009

While it’s been out for a while Last week was my first chance to look at the new Droid phone, because you can’t get it in the UK, in fact outside Germany you can’t get it in Europe.

However as I was in the US for thanksgiving I took my longsuffering girlfriend around the Verizon near her parents place in Baltimore. I must say I was impressed, not only with the phone (more on that later) but also with the level of service I received from the Lady in the Verizon on “The Avenue” in Baltimore, we when in and she asked if we wanted any help, I made it quite clear that I couldn’t buy a phone but that didn’t stop her from answering every question I had about the phone.

The phone it’s self is lovely, my partner’s eyesight is going as is her current phone, so I wanted to let her have a play with a full Qwerty keyboard as a slide phone as opposed to my blackberry which she says thinks has keys that are too small. The keyboard on the Droid on the other hand was workable, it also gave a nice tactile feedback, something phones like the iPhone, that lack a physical keyboard clearly lack.

The Phone is selling well, and the 5 mega pix camera appears to be one of the main selling points, as does the openness of the app store. Yes that right non-techie users are turning to Android because of the Apple App store.

Sadly you can’t yet get the Droid in the UK yet, but hopefully when you can it will be on Orange so that I can get one for myself and review the operation of the phone (sadly the model I played with was just a shop display model).

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