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Matt McKeon has created an excellent “Evolution of Privacy on Facebook” infographic. It’s a great demonstration of how what was a great private place to share information surreptitiously became a tool for selling your information to marketers and disclosing your private information to the entire Internet. The Evolution of Facebook Privacy on MattMckeon.com Update: Friday… Continue Reading Facebook Privacy Infographic

Running a mail server is hard work. This is largely because it puts you on the front line of the battle with the internet’s biggest scourge: spam. My recommendation: don’t do it. When I setup a new web site and domain, or when I am helping another organization setup their Email etcetera my preference is… Continue Reading Switching your domain to Google Apps

FYI: I just turned on Google Analytics again on my site. I’m trying to reduce the load on my server as much as possible for the inevitable day when the site goes viral. I’ve also been tracking the whole site via the excellent AW Stats tool at http://mattclare.ca/awstats/awstats.pl — which is intentionally public. I’ll keep… Continue Reading You are being tracked! By me, and Google.

Shortening URLs like http://bit.ly/warningwarning are a bad idea, filling a real need, that seems like it’s not going to just go away. URLs like http://mattclare.ca/blog/2010/03/18/warning-about-url-shortening are descriptive, help service like Google but they are way too hard to remember and take a long time to type into a web browser. Services like http://tinyurl.com , http://snipurl.com,… Continue Reading Warning About URL Shortening

In 2007 I created a web site to designed to help everyone, principally me, track your luck with the Tim Horton’sâ„¢ roll-up promotion and let users share their experience with others. Today Rim Count has been shut down. The site required a little bit of work to update the content for 2010, but more than… Continue Reading No more RimCount.com