Facebook is once again removing your privacy

Facebook recently unleashed a new feature called "Places". Without warning, everyone on Facebook is automatically "in" as soon as you check it out. And, unfortunately, it allows your location to be displayed to the entire Facebook world at large.

Here's a blog post on how to fix it.

I am about thisclose to just removing my profile on Facebook permanently. MY privacy and my location are my business to reveal, not theirs.

if you haven't checked your privacy settings in a while, you may also want to make sure that your "location" is set to either Friends only or disabled so that Facebook doesn't share your info anyway.

Only on eBay....

Only on eBay will you find a computer's HARD DRIVE referred to as an "accessory". Y'know, guys, most of us think that if you're listing a "laptop" it should include things like "Memory", "Hard Drive" and "Battery". Otherwise it's just a pretty shell (or, hey, not-so-pretty. I've SEEN some of those things you're listing) and it's not really a LAPTOP.
At least list the thing as "for parts" rather than "USED", you morons.

Also: Dear eBay, I specified Condition as "New" and "Used" rather than "UNSPECIFIED" for the sole purpose of EXCLUDING "NOT WORKING". What part of "Condition=Not working" is included in the set of "Condition=New" and "Condition=Used"? Honestly, what's the point of having both of those conditions AS WELL AS "Condition=Not Working", and giving me the choice to filter on those particular conditions, if you're not going to actually filter on the conditions I select?

An interesting site

There's a guy out there named Paul Myers who offers a free e-newsletter. It's mainly geared toward people who are doing online business. Not just "big biz", but the entrepreneur. It's a lot of common-sense stuff with a good analysis of why certain things work the way they do on the 'net - and how you can benefit from them (or be hurt by them.)

Be prepared to think if you go to TalkBiz News, but it's worth the trip.

How NOT to be creative

Well, yeah, I'll give 'em that much. I bet Mom won't ever forget THIS Mother's Day Cake.
From the Cake Wrecks Blog:

Fun game

Test your typing and word construction skills with Deep Leap. Type in words using the tiles on the screen. As you make words, you get points. If you don't type enough words in, tiles will start to get "crowded out" by new incoming tiles, and you lose points, so watch out!

April Fools from Google!

Google's April Fools' Prank this year: Gmail Autopilot. It purports to be able to read and respond to your incoming emails just as you'd respond, using some variation of ELIZA.

They've also linked up another page: CADIE. Very well done, Google.

Gadzooks, they even gave CADIE a homepage and a Youtube channel.

Heroes

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