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• Hundreds of Facebook Groups Hacked November 10, 2009
  (Update UTC 2100: I’ve received a reply from Erik Hjort af Ornäs, the registrar of the site itself, and have included his statement below and in the comments, as well as that of Facebook. Both deny any hacking took place)...
• SideWikis Wish Fulfilment November 9, 2009
  A piece in today’s Guardian attracted my attention--“SideWiki Changes Everything”—as I thought, perhaps, it might shed new light on Google’s browser sidebar that allows anyone to add comments to a website whether or not the website owner wants them to....
• Is Microsoft Censoring Windows 7 Tweets? November 9, 2009
  Intrigued to see that Microsoft has turned a page of its website over to “What people are saying about Windows 7”: The page is designed a bit like twittefall: a cascade of seeminlgy “live” tweets (their dates and times of...
• Hoodiephobia, Or We Dont Lie to Google November 8, 2009
  Does what we search for online reflect our fears? There’s a growing obsession in the UK, it would seem, with ‘hoodies’—young people who wear sports clothing with hoods who maraud in gangs. Michael Caine has just starred in a movie...
• Dialog of the Day November 4, 2009
  Pop up window of the day. You kind of know what they’re trying to say, and you have to admire their diligence with commas, but it might confuse the casual user: When you install this product, please perform, once uninstalling.
• Driver Phishing II, Or Who Is Trentin Lagrange? October 20, 2009
  I’m fully awake now, and doing some digging on who is behind the Driver Robot “driver phish.” The digging has introduced me to a whole level to the software scam industry. The company that sells it is Victoria, BC, Canada-based...
• Driver Phishing October 20, 2009
  Maybe because it’s early in the morning, but I fell for this little scam pretty easily. I’m going to call it “driver phishing” because it has all the hallmarks of a phishing attack, although it’s probably legal. I’m looking for...
• How to Abuse Social Media and Lose Friends October 5, 2009
  I’m sure they’re not the first to do this, but I really hate it: referral marketing. SingTel, Singapore’s main phone operator, is encouraging Singaporeans to spam their friends via email, twitter, Facebook and SMS. The sad thing is they’ll have...
• Filling the Tablet Hole September 29, 2009
  This is a guest post by my old friend and collaborator, Robin Lubbock I'm still waiting for this hole in the market to fill in. It's the tablet hole. The space for a viewer/reader/player about the size of a novel....
• The Pain of Fingers Dancing on a Touchpad September 3, 2009
  Before I leave the poor folks at Nokia alone, I must take issue with one more thing about their promotional videos for their new Booklet. Touchpads are mostly poorly used; I’ve only seen a handful of people who can use...