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Standing Room
After about 8 months of work, I’ve finally launched Standing Room, my website melding music and math. You can read about it on the site’s about page, or at the official blog.Bad Friendster, bad!
It appears that Friendster now defaults to making your profile public — even if you haven’t signed on for years. I haven’t kept up with it (and my email address probably isn’t even current), so now all my data is web crawlable. Would the sensible thing to do have been to default everyone to private?
The issue here is that they used to have a privacy settings that corresponded to “friends”, “two degrees away”, “anybody logged in”. Now they’ve swapped “anybody logged in” with “anybody on the selected continents”, and by default you’re viewable on all continents. Why couldn’t they have kept the “anybody logged in” setting and just added the continents one?
The result: I’m changing the privacy setting, deleting data, and telling friends — definitely not a net good for Friendster, or for me.
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Shuttle-Bike - convert a bike to a pedal-power boat
Is it just me, or is anybody else having problems parsing this ad?