Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-03

Facebook’s Mistake: Changing The TOS (Terms of Service)

Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.

Now, anything you upload to Facebook can be used by Facebook in any way they deem fit, forever, no matter what you do later. Want to close your account? Good for you, but Facebook still has the right to do whatever it wants with your old content. They can even sublicense it if they want.

What an outrage.

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Getting updates about Mars

Mars Phoenix on TwitterGetting updates from a machince on MARS.  I can watch and read and follow on Twitter. I find this a great use for this tool (Twitter)

There are over 18,000 people following the Mars Updates.

I am and have found it all very captivating. More about Mars and twitter More on Mars Phoenix

I recall watching a special on OPB (oregon’s modified PBS channel) about sending a drone to one of the moons of Saturn. They said getting that kind thing to happen is like throwing a basket ball from NASA in Florida to anywhere in Europe and hitting nothing but net! And it a pricey game to play, with large risks. I’m happy just getting the updates from twitter. Nice and simple.

Social Alarm Clock

I’m not quite sure how it works and still on the fence on if I’m going to join, but for those that really get into the social networking, perhaps you would like to wake up to a social buddy’s alarm? If this sounds like the type of thing you’d be into then be sure and check out Ryan Spahn’s Sleep.fm Ryan has a few links on on his Blog TechAdvid that lead toContinue reading