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By Scott Vine

Helen Rose of Bristows looks at the recent flurry of negative publicity when Facebook announced that details of its users would appear in publicly available search results, leading to allegations that Facebook was sacrificing users? privacy in an attempt to drive more users to the site via search engines. She asks if these claims stand up to scrutiny, and whether Facebooks actions make it comliant with UK data protection law, concluding - rightly in my opinion, that this was really a non-story.

Meanwhile Make Watts (also of Bristows) asks - just what is web2.0 ... and states it depends on who you ask, suggesting 4 meanings

According to Lee Bryant of Headshift, Microsoft has announced a strategic partnership with Atlassian's Confluence wiki platform and Newsgator's enterprise RSS system to extend its Sharepoint portal product in the direction of enterprise social computing. This is undoubtably good news for many organisations fighting to get web2.0 technology and thinking behind the firewall in what remains - more often than not - a Microsoft IT world. And speaking of Microsoft Steve Ballmer proclaimed that Microsoft has made plans to purchase 20 web companies a year for the next 5 years.

BlogRovr looks quite interesting. You import your OPML to the service and then from that point onwards when you're surfing away it will (apparently) tell you if a page your on has been linked to by any of the subs in your OPML, and then let you jump to the relevant blog post. Sounds pretty cool if it works, must find time to give it a go.

Twine is all over the place - so much so I have fallen over twice. Have signed up (of course) and now wait to see if it is a great as it tells me it is, or whether it should be called old rope.

Full post as published by Information Overload on October 23, 2007 (boomark / email).