As you know, I love apple products, but according to apple’s new privacy policy, this is very facebooky…

“To provide location-based services on Apple products, Apple and our partners and licensees may collect, use, and share precise location data, including the real-time geographic location of your Apple computer or device. This location data is collected anonymously in a form that does not personally identify you and is used by Apple and our partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based products and services. For example, we may share geographic location with application providers when you opt in to their location services.”

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/external/venturebeat/2010/06/21/21venturebeat-apple-already-knows-where-you-are-all-the-ti-31273.html

“The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses based on what seemed reasonable to me.”

Check out the post here

“However things play out for Pandora as a business, its approach is worth understanding if you’re interested in the future of listening. It’s the “social” theories of music-liking that get most of the attention these days: systems that connect you with friends with similar tastes, or that rely on “collaborative filtering” strategies that cross-match your music-consumption habits with those of like-minded strangers. These popular approaches marginalize traditional gatekeepers; instead of trusting the talent scout, the radio programmer or the music critic, you trust your friends (actual or virtual), or maybe just “the crowd.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/magazine/18Pandora-t.html?em

http://www.socialsnippets.com/snippets/how-to-style-an-application-like-facebook.aspx

“…explore how we can style our Facebook application to look and feel like an extension of the Facebook platform. We will examine colors, fonts, dimensions and a few common design patterns utlized by the Facebook platform in our quest to fit in with the crowd. ”

Clay says, “I teach at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between technologists who care about aesthetics and artists who aren’t afraid of machines, which makes it a pretty good place to see the future.”