PleaseRobMe.com

Here’s a thought on privacy that I think more people should think about: Does the world need to know where you are at all times? Or put differently, do people need to know where you aren’t?

The people behind PleaseRobMe.com don’t think so. While you’re tweeting where you are at you are also sharing that you’re

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Twitter Lists – Useful!

I have to confess that when Twitter’s new “list” feature was announced my response was a well-reasoned “meh.” I just didn’t see the point and had little interest in investigating…

Fortunately (for me!) I decided to play around the feature a bit this morning. Right away, my first thought was that it would be cool to

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OpenDNS New Plans (and Initial Confusion)

Last month, the OpenDNS folks announced their upcoming Deluxe and Enterprise plans. I’ve been using their free service for quite some time now – I’ve even integrated into our small office as part of the security solution and have configured my home and several relatives’ home networks for it as well.

Lovely stuff. Based on their

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TwitterGadget URL Expansion

A month ago I mentioned that I was using TwitterGadget with iGoogle as my twitter client. In fact, I’ve been using it daily since then. Today I finally noticed a very cool feature: URL Expansion.

Hover over any URL that comes from a URL Shortening service (bit.ly, is.gd, etc.) and TwitterGadget will show you the destination.

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Social Bits

Some random bits from the social networking scene that caught my attention recently.

My favorite social aggregator, Socialthing, has announced that they’ll be dropping support for their current product. They’re not pulling the plug on it until their next “big thing” launches, but no more updates or patches as APIs change in the future. Oh, and

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