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Go to Account > Privacy Settings, click Customize Settings. Under “Things others share”, set “Friends can check me in to Places” to Disabled. Otherwise, your less scrupulous friends can check you into potentially embarrassing locations.

Optionally, under “Things I share”, adjust …

The beginning of 2009 had a rocky start for me. My employment situation was up in the air thanks to my long-time employer Nokia selling off the Security Appliance Business I worked in to …

Over the years, I’ve used a number of social networking services. Not just services like Twitter and Facebook, but things called bulletin board systems that you accessed via dialup modems. It wasn’t as cool, as mainstream, or even as technically …

This past week, I’ve been on the Check Point Security Tour up in Western Canada talking about the Dangers of Social Networking. The basis of the presentation was actually something I gave to Check Point employees in Redwood City back …

If you’ve seen the movie Soylent Green, or even if you haven’t, you know what the punchline to this story is. Even if you do …

I am starting to get more requests for “blog love” at a time when I have less and less desire to write. I am quickly coming to the realization that much of the stuff people are asking me to write …

Yesterday, like many people around the world, I watched the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Unlike many of my friends, I watched it on a regular television. Sure, the CNN/Facebook integration was a cool idea, …

This is a no-brainer. Of course social networking is in for 2009. However, with so many choices, it might help to explain what services I plan on using (or not) in 2009.

Twitter : I’ve been on Twitter since …

Starting another conference. In a down economy. Are you crazy? Personally, I think not, mainly because we’re talking about our good buddy Jeff Pulver, who started the Voice on the Net (VON) conferences back before …

Sorry that this post is late. Not sure if you read these things anyway, but hey, it’s a tradition. What I might do in the future is highlight a post from each of …