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A plug for a little site of mine: Wallpaper for Christmas.

I can’t believe that Yahoo! can’t find a fit for Delicious with it’s collection of the best sites on the web all thoroughly tagged.

Facebook is going to have a go at unified inbox, combining all your communications… Facebook’s New Messaging System

Google has added (well, is adding, you have to opt-in at the moment) Instant Previews to it’s search results – a screenshot of the page listed. The feature that might make it useful is that they highlight on the image the sections of the page that are relevant to your search.

I got my about.me page today. It’s a simple service that provides a “splash page” which pulls together some of your online presences.

… oh, the computer version not the choc-chip ones.

A bit of fear mongering by the smh.com.au in their article Inside the cookie monster – trading your online data for profits which discusses the use of cookies set by your web browser (at the request of a web-site you visit) to track your movements and interests. More precisely, it’s the cookies that are set by a third party that are of concern.

Really, privacy has changed. The generation that I’m teaching at high school really don’t seem concerned about their privacy at all.

If you’re using Firefox you can disable third-party cookies, although that may break more than just cookies set by advertisers.
Personally, I like the ad-free internet provided by Adblock Plus.