Web I/O

Information covered on this week’s show:

Privacy and Facebook:
1. Report from Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada on Facebook:
www.priv.gc.ca/media/nr-c/2009/nr-c_090716_e.cfm
2. Study done by Carnegie-Mellon University on people and their reaction to the way privacy policies are presented:
www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/privacy_salienc.html
3. Ways to secure your Facebook profiles and personal information posted:
www.insidefacebook.com/2009/05/13/facebook-privacy-guide
www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy
4. Media coverage of Facebook privacy policies:
www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/06/24/24readwriteweb-the-day-facebook-changed-messages-to-become-18772.html
5. Further information on privacy:
US based effort on privacy: www.privacy.org
Ottawa University based Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic: www.cippic.ca
6. Comics:
www.theweek.com/cartoons/index/99157/Facebook_friends
www.shoeboxblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/facebook-473×500.jpg

[Update: August 3, 2009] While the forum is for entrepreneurs, the advice is still good:

Spam:
1. Canadian effort to stop spam: www.stopspamhere.ca/spam-e.html#Tips
2. A way to prevent having to give out personal information/email addresses for sites requiring registration: www.bugmenot.com

Educational:
1. Hyper History: www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html

Music:
1. Nothing else matters – Metallica: Intro Song
2. Facebook song – Rhett and Link: Facebook privacy theme
3. The Letter – The Box Tops: Letters of the electronic type
4. I’m going to sit write down and write myself a letter – Nat King Cole: Another email theme related song
5. History Song – The Good, the bad and the Queen: Scanning historical timelines