is it just me

Matt McKeon did a nice visualization of how the Facebook TOS changed since 2005 with regard to privacy. Starting as a really closed social network, it became more and more open and Facebook’s default sharing settings are not always as you’d expect them… See the great work yourself.

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Tags are the new classification systems for nearly all current web applications. But how do you keep track on where you posted, linked, commented or uploaded stuff. Florian Bailey posted a simple but effective idea to do this (HT to René Sprotte for linking me to this):

My problem is how to aggregate everything I publish easily. I tried various ways to do this. For comments there are services like disqus but sadly only a few sites actually integrate it, Facebook and Friendfeed are partly an answer to it but even with them I can only add sites where I have an account ( or that allow me to use my facebook account) or a public RSS Feed is available.

At the end, all of these services only work with some sites, the only global services that work on every site are search engines.

So I’m now trying to aggregate everything I publish with google.

For this I created my personal tag, it’s a unique string I will add to every kind of content I publish anywhere on the internet. And Google will do the rest.

My Personal Tag is: #ptfjib80
# – as identifier of a tag
pt – personal tag
fjib80 – as unique string

I like the idea because it so simple, clean and pretty straightforward. I’ll try to use my personal tag #ptwollepb999 from now on. What about you?

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