Protecting your privacy when Timeline goes online

It’s almost a contradiction in terms – protecting your privacy on a social network, but since the inception of Facebook and other social media, users have had concerns about protecting their privacy… It seems we want to be social, but there is a limit.

Facebook is currently rolling out Timeline to all its users whether they want it or not. Timeline is the latest way that users let their ‘life story’ be told through pictures and their posts, or as Facebook puts it: “Share and highlight your most memorable posts, photos and life events on your timeline. This is where you can tell your story from beginning, to middle, to now”.

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The power of the app

These days there seems to be an app for everything. There are 20 or so ITIL ones for a start as well as a handful of ITSM ones. So I guess we can expect the march of the app to continue in 2012. In the January/February issue of VitAL we will feature a round-up of opinions from leading industry experts, but it is already clear that apps are making their mark.

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No Email Day

A week from today (Friday 11 November or 11.11.11) has apparently been designated ‘No Email Day’. The instigator of No Email Day, a chap called Paul Lancaster (http://www.slideshare.net/lordlancaster/no-email-day-by-paul-lancaster) seems to be promoting the idea that by spending a day ignoring our email that this will somehow help us to attain that most elusive of goals – an empty inbox.

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Adios Steve Jobs

With the passing of Apple chief executive Steve Jobs, one of the true great and original minds of our age has gone. I realise that this is a tribal field and people have their allegiances, but as a user of both Apple and Microsoft products over my illustrious career I have to state that my personal preference is for Apple on the whole – for the usual reasons of stability and resistance to viruses – although clearly you pay a rich premium for these benefits and the slick looks and perhaps a more hard-nosed, technical approach might have impacted my wallet less over the years. 

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