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I may be a few days late but the winner of the #bloggeries contest I held a few bloggeries ago is…

The Other Drummer Says:
http://twitter.com/theotherdrummer/status/1190893077

Congrats and I’ll be contacting you on twitter to claim your prize.

Thanks to everyone who participated and continues to use #bloggeries to identify new blog posts on twitter.

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This is just another quick bloggery I’m putting together. If you’ve been anywhere on Twitter lately I’m sure you’ve seen the trending topic “We Can Do Anything“. This uproar is about Facebook’s new terms of service (tos) that basically states that whatever you upload to the site is theirs to do as the please for eternity. Creepy stuff.

 The Consumerist is the blog that broke the news and got everyone talking.  Realistically though people what did you think? It’s a massive social media site that is struggling for revenue and holds all your personal data. I don’t like it but I can’t say I’m surprised. That said when I did sign up for Facebook I put in a name that my friends would recognize me by but not my real name. This was mainly so Bosses or future co-workers couldn’t snoop but now has a whole new meaning.

What I’m taking from this is: Use Facebook to stay in touch with friends but don’t be overly reliant on it. Once you’ve made contact go straight to email. I’m sure this TOS applies to “all content” including private communication. I’ve long been suspicious of Facebook and now I have  all the more reason to be.

Just be careful people and watch what you add to facebook because once you add it; it’s theirs for life! Also this makes me increasingly weary  of “Facebook Connect”. I’m not a big fan of connecting all these networks together. Just watch yourself and don’t be too enthusiastic to share everything. You may end up sharing more than you’d like.

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If you’re doing work on the web and using Firefox then you need the “SEO Toolbar“.

The reason I really like this toolbar is that it gives me several bits of data that I’m always curious about in a well presented non intrusive way. The data I’m always curious about are: age of the domain, dmoz listings, yahoo listings, indexed pages, number of inbound links and of course compete score to name a few. Most of this data on it’s own will give you a bit of an idea about the site in question but all together it helps give you a somewhat realistic picture.

Once you’ve downloaded it if you want further data be sure to click the “i” button which is blue next to SEOBOOK on the toolbar.

I’m writing this quickly as I just realized a laptop of mine does not have the toolbar so installing it. You should definitely try this out if the type of information I listed is something you like to be conscious of when navigating the web.

Keep working for yourself,

-Rob