system-log:tyr

Perhaps not the most successful turn of the holiday

For me one of the most interesting aspects of the modern internet (Web 2.0, if you like) is the high availability and feature depth of APIs that websites make available to enable integration into a variety of systems. These range across the whole spectrum of websites from flickr to BetFair.

One API that has particularly taken my interest of late is the Facebook Developers API, this is the API used to build all Facebook applications. What is particularly interesting, and perhaps surprising, about this API is the amount of personal information that is made available about Facebook users.

In order to increase awareness of the information that Facebook makes available about you and your friends to every applicaiton you install I created a ‘What Applications Know About You’ application. Read on for more details.

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A while ago I showed how I upgraded my Solaris Express system using Live Upgrade. Now it’s time to upgrade again. This time we do it a bit differently as a boot environment for the upgrade is already available. Read on for the full story.

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