The European Union are fighting to have the 4 pillars of individual privacy rights respected by American internet giants. Is this a battle we should be taking part in?

Making polite chit chat with strangers just got a little easier if you’re prepared to publicise your social networking interests with other Domo mobile app users

Do we want to share every aspect of our lives online in order to be rewarded for good intentions? The technology is now with us – will you connect everyday activities to your social networks?

I recently provided some information for an article in a weekend paper, which I’ll reproduce in full here. The question was basically – at what age are young people ready for different technologies. Its a good question, and one that many parents would be asking themselves. The problems is – its not possible to create a technology vs age readiness table that has any real value.

A few days ago, I was on the verge of quitting Facebook. This was not about privacy. Facebook was in the throws of more bad press related to privacy, but it wasn’t that. The problem is, it’s all a bit – well, not what I want. Maybe its my fault.  I’m hardly ever there. If my [...]

This week Martin looks at the reaction to Google mapping UK wireless routers; Lee discusses good virtual neighbours in Christchurch and Sean suggests the US Limewire court case marks the beginning of the end for peer to peer file sharing

Today, Hectors Worldlaunched a new resource. A paper webcam cover. Two actually. One for external webcams and one for the type that is built into screens. At this point you may be wondering why you’d have a paper webcam cover. Well. Firstly, I can explain why they’re made of paper. It takes kids too long to crochet. [...]

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I was asked to make a comment recently for Victoria University’s student news publication Salient about a service called Pleaserobme.com. Pleaserobme is a self proclaimed “Hack” from Social Media consultants Forthehack based in Rijswijk, The Netherlands, which scans and parses geographical information posted by users of the FourSquare.com service on the four square site and [...]

What if you could affect the google result when people did a name-search on you? Apparently Google Profiles will give me this option – stay tuned to see if it actually works.