From MSNBC.com:

Details of 100 million Facebook users published online

Users’ personal information cannot now be made private, security consultant says

Bowes used code to scan the 500 million Facebook profiles for information not hidden by privacy settings. The resulting file, which allows people to perform searches of various different types, has been downloaded by more than 2,400 people.

This means that if any of those on the list decide to change their privacy settings on Facebook, Bowes and those who have the file will still be able to access information that was public when it was compiled.

Bowes’ actions also mean people who had set their privacy settings so their names did not appear in Facebook’s search system can now be found if they were friends with anyone whose name was searchable.

‘Scary privacy issue’
On his website, www.skullsecurity.org, Bowes said the results of his code were “spectacular,” giving him 171 million names of which were 100 million unique.

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Saturday, May 22, 2010 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM (CT)

Join the San Antonio Podcasters for the event that kicked off the UnConference movement in San Antonio.

PodCamp San Antonio 4: Learn, Share, Grow

Podcamp San Antonio is an UnConference being held May 22, 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. It’s an “UnConference”, meaning that it’s a conference organized in an ad-hoc manner for everyone to attend and participate in. There are no keynote speakers or rigidly defined schedules. Anyone with something to contribute or with the desire to learn is welcome and invited to join.

Want to learn more about podcasting, blogging & live video streaming?

Always wanted to know more about social media?

Then Podcamp San Antonio is the place to be!

We are planning for a crowd of the most plugged-in, most active bloggers, podcasters, video and social media folks from all around Texas.

While it is a FREE event we do ask that you let us know you’re coming. So we can make Podcamp San Antonio 4 the event you’ll be talking about on Monday morning.

RSVP Now to hold your seat for what will be the first San Antonio Camp in 2010

Not sure what a camp is?

Take a look at the PodCamp San Antonio archives for years 1-3.

This year’s event is being held at the Laugh Out Loud Comedy Club and is sponsored by Blip.TV, KickApps and the San Antonio Podcasters

Another excellent post by Dawn (@lettergirl)!

5 Reasons I’m Not a Fan of Your Business on Facebook

And thanks to this post, I have lots of work to do – I spend a good amount of time connecting, but my Facebook page needs to be touched up. 

Definitely read this.  And anything else Dawn writes.  Oh, and also definitely read the comments!

Just 12 days ago, Foursquare grew by nearly 100,000 users in 10 days, taking its total number of users to somewhere north of 600,000. Now a new update from the company reveals that Foursquare has almost 725,000 users. That’s somewhere around 100,000 new users in two weeks. The Foursquare bandwagon hasn’t lost any steam.

22 MILLION CHECK-INS.  That’s a lot of phone tapping!  SXSW really pumped up use this year, and it doesn’t appear that use will slow down.  But, beware the dangers of letting others know where you will be constantly, and sometimes more importantly, where you will NOT be:

http://mashable.com/2010/02/19/how-robbers-did-their-dirty-deeds/

http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/17/please-rob-me-makes-foursquare-super-useful-for-burglars/

“You have the addresses, now let’s make a map!”

What is geocoding?

To Geocode, is to take a street address and convert it into latitude and longitude coordinates so that it can be displayed on a map. It can also be used to validate address data, or pull back unknown fields such as zip code. It works by finding the associated block face with an address, example: 123 Sesame St, the block would likely be 100-200 Sesame St. When trying to locate the segment the street number, street name, street direction, street type, and the city/state or zip code are all used. Once the segment is found, the location of the address is estimated along the line by using the street address number and the block range (this is the least accurate part of the process.) Simply put: Geocoding makes locating addresses and viewing multiple locations on a map instantly possible.

They even make it easy for you to share your results and maps – a couple of clicks and you’re done!  No need to get involved in Google’s API.  The maps are international, too.  Great way for you to map out your business locations on a single map, show drop off/pick up sites, for house-hunting clients, and more – and it’s very easy to use, so any maps you make can be set up quickly.

Get this:

From this:

Thanks for Todd O’Neill (@doingmedia) at C4Workspace (@c4workspace) for the link!

YouTube EDU is now one of the largest online video repositories of higher education content in the world. We have tripled our partner base to over 300 universities and colleges, including University of Cambridge, Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Chicago and The Indian Institutes of Technology. We have grown to include university courses in seven languages across 10 countries. We now have over 350 full courses, a 75% increase from a year ago and thousands of aspiring students have viewed EDU videos tens of millions of times. And today, the EDU video library stands at over 65,000 videos.

Click here for the rest of the article

Click here for the Mashable.com article.

With every purchase of 1/4 lb. Brisket on March 2nd, the 32¢ payment received will be donated to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. One per customer, participating locations only (see below) and cutter’s choice brisket.

Also, Rudy’s will donate 50¢ to Clinton Bush Haiti Fund for every new verifiable Twitter follower and Facebook fan from February 23^rd to March 2^nd!