Wow, Facebook is getting some press - and not all good (warning: link-happy post ahead). First, for kicking Scoble off, which split into multiple issues: Scoble breaking the terms of service and getting the appropriate response, Plaxo not testing their scripts, and a broader "Who owns your data? Not you!" which DownloadSquad hit the nail on the head with: What's really at issue here is, who owns all this crazy social data you're constantly creating? Here's a tip; it's not you. All those clickwrap agreements -- or EULAs, also known as the Terms of Service document you never read -- say that...

Flock might just be the package to make me switch browsers from IE/Maxthon for my home computer time. Flock is billed as "the social web browser" and integrates data from sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and Delicious, listing all your friends in the one place along with the last time they updated something. It is open source, has a built-in photo uploader for Flickr, and works with the majority of Firefox extensions (it's actually built on top of Mozilla), among other things. I've tried Firefox in the past but just didn't see how it was any better than Maxthon, which basically...

It won't surprise people that know me that when Jason Haley points to an article titled "How To Network: For Introverts", I am of course going to read it. By almost anyone's scale, I am an introvert, and "networking" is one of the single hardest things for me to do. A typical schedule for the SQL Server User Group meeting that I attend in Melbourne will go something like "5:30-6:00 Networking and Pizza; 6:00-7:30 Presentation". My brain translates this as "5:30-6:00 stand around, look out the window, browse a book and eat a couple of slices of pizza, 6:00-7:30 the important...