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The Facebook Like Button, and how it is following you around the web

There has been a lot of hype and talk around the Facebook Like button, and I do understand that the issues I raise in this blog post have been addressed before, I will cite some relevant literature at...

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Facebook and their Horrible “OPT-OUT” Policy

So Facebook announced their new Facebook Places functionality a couple of days ago, the service seems well implemented, and following the uptake of 4square, probably a timely service for fb – good luck...

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Disabling Referer Headers in Firefox

Given the awesome work detailed by Bala from AT&T, and some recent privacy related measures I have been taking in my Firefox browser (see https-everywhere and adblocking fb), I have decided to...

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NHS.uk allowing Google, Facebook, and others to track you

The NHS is allowing Google, Facebook, and others to track your http://www.nhs.uk/ browsing habits, regardless of the fact that people use the page to seek medical advice. It was recently pointed out to...

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My Response to the NHS

My letter to the NHS Choices Team dated 2010-11-30 Hi Team NHS Choices, So, I just thought I would let you know that, as per my blog post, the NHS Choices website is sharing information with Facebook...

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Knocking up my own RSS reader

Since Newsgators RSS Reader asked me to supply them with a Google Account, becoming Google Reader, I gave up on the service. I using an RSS reader which would sync my laptop with my phone and when my...

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shareNice : unintrusive social sharing

This post is about the shareNice social sharing widget I have been working on recently. I am pitching shareNice as a “uninstrusive social sharing” tool for webmasters. Webmasters can add shareNice to...

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