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The “Facebook Doesn’t Own My Friends” Chrome extension lets you export your friends’ data
0From the description on the website:
“Facebook Doesn’t Own My Friends is a Chrome extension to export your Facebook friends’ contact data.
Despite what Facebook says, if someone is your “friend” and you can see his/her email address on his/her Facebook info, they are probably OK with you emailing them.
Facebook doesn’t let you export this data, so they expect you to click on each of your friends’ pages, copy their email address (or other contact information), and paste it into your email client. Kind of ridiculous? Yes.
Facebook Doesn’t Own My Friends will let you export all (or some) of your friends’ contact info, to CSV or directly to your Google Contacts (GMail).”
Get it here
Google warns you that importing your contacts into Facebook is a trap :D
0Hold on a second. Are you super sure you want to import your contact information for your friends into a service that won’t let you get it out?
That’s how Google starts its warning message to users that are stupid enough to import their Gmail contacts into Facebook.
It’s been war between Google and Facebook these past couple of days and it’s interesting to see Google taking a playful approach to the problem.
Read the whole message on Gmail.
The end of online privacy in the UK. ISPs will be forced to record everything
0From The Register:
The coalition government has approved a multibillion-pound plan by the intelligence agencies to store details of every online conversation.
The reemerging Interception Modernisation Programme (IMP) means internet providers will be forced to install interception equipment in their networks to capture details of who contacts whom, when, where and how via services such as Facebook, Skype, webmail, and online games.
Read more about it here.
Yet another story about Facebook violating your rights
0A lawsuit has been filed in the US against Facebook, because the social network leaked personally identifiable information to advertisers.
In the information sent to advertisers when you click on an ad, there are things like your username and your real name…
Read the complaint HERE.
It’s official, HTML5 is still a draft and not ready for websites. What’s that Steve?
01 year ago
Looks like the 5th revision of HTML will be as bad as its predecessors and things won’t be as rosy as some CEOs would like you to think. Different browsers are adopting different draft versions which will make them incompatible with each other and the result will be the usual mess.
There is a reason Flash became so successful 10 years ago. It works the same across multiple browsers. A uniform user experience helps reduce development and support costs.
As more an more mobile OS support HTML5, it means that developers will need to write more and more code to cater for all the exceptions…
