Techcrunch has a post on Google’s recent disclosure of a blogger’s IP address to the authorities. What’s disturbing is that, at least according to TC, Google did not require a court order before tattling on the blogger.
UPDATE: It seem TC and I may have spoke too soon. A couple of commenters on the TC post seem to indicate there was something lost in translation, and that there was indeed a court order. Here’s a referenced link, if you happen to read Hebrew. I do not…
They need to win the social wars for _me_. That’s right, for me. I was on friendster. I was on orkut till the Brazillians took over. I’m on linkedin. And now, I’m on facebook. I’ve gone where my friends have gone, and I’m sick of it.
I’m tired of creating all the connections to my friends. Tired of putting in my updated contact info. Tired of figuring out what the whiz bang features are of this iteration of my online rolodex.
And that’s really all I want it to be, an online rolodex. I don’t care about sending zombie bunnies to my friends, or poking/hugging/punching someone, or playing vampires with people in my network. I want a place to keep track of people and to communicate with them. They are what’s valuable to me, and all the silly games in the world won’t change that.
Something needs to either unite the social frameworks, or crush them under their heels. Maybe that’s what google’s opensocial hopes to do one day. But, after orkut, I’m not holding my breath. So, facebook, start crushing. I need you.
I just submitted an nginx package to fink after waiting about a month to define which files were documentation. Hopefully, it’ll be validated and added quickly, but if you need it now head over to sourceforge to grab the .info and .patch. The packaging tutorial over at finkproject should have all the info you’d need to build it for yourself. As well as teach you how simple it is to get started working on packages for fink.
Peter Marklund has put together a mammoth 341 slide presentation to introduce you to Ruby and Rails. Get it here [pdf] or at his slideshare. I haven’t flipped through it all yet, but, so far, it looks like a great resource.
It seems that Walmart just started carrying a $200 computer from Everex that’s running Linux. And it just happened to be Google’s Ubuntu-based distribution. It’ll definitely be interesting to see how Walmart’s customers react to a very affordable computer, running an operating system they’ve never heard of.
