Have You Read Facebook’s New Terms Of Service

Posted by Gripfactor | Facebook, Social Networking | Sunday 15 February 2009 8:58 pm

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When was the last time you read the TOS for any site? According to Chris Walters the Facebook Terms of Service have changed and basically give’s Facebook the right to use your content as it deems fit, even if you cancel your account. I agree with some of the comments made on the blog post: just assume if you upload it, share it, write it, like it, or create it and you don’t own the server…its out there forever and open for the viral at heart. Or, in typical geek-think, RTFTOS.

[Update : 16FEB09]

See the following posts:

Facebook Blog on Terms of Service by CEO, Mark Zuckerburg

Mashable post by Stan Shroeder

Chris Brogan blog post on TOS

Mari Smith’s Why Facebook blog “Does Facebook Really Own Your Data…”

Nick O’Niell blog post on TOS PR Nightmare for Facebook

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Take on Syncing Facebook Events with Google Calendar

Posted by Gripfactor | Facebook, Social Networking | Sunday 15 February 2009 3:54 pm

I’ve been using the method of syncing Facebook events in my Google Calendar for some time now. I find it easier to manage events that I want to attend and see it with my regular calendar. The one thing I don’t like is when you have event invites and you choose “not attending” it still shows up in the feed. In order to get it off the feed and calendar you have to go into the event and choose “remove from my events” link. This adds more work than necessary when you are trying to streamline your productivity efforts. One way I found to test a different solution to this is 30boxes, which also integrates with Facebook. You have to try both to see what works for you. Check out the insidefacebook.com blog post for the step-by-step instruction.

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