Privacy, spam, and anti-social networking
Widgets & RSS FeedsNew Sites Make It Easier To Spy on Your Friends: The Wall Street Journal has a piece on services and social network tools that can be used and abused to discover and extract information about individuals that would often be difficult to obtain otherwise.
The Dark Side of Social Networking: Questions for Brant Walker: The Voice of San Diego has an interview with Brant Walker, the creator of bumfinder, fakeyourspace.com, and rottenneighbor.com all of which could be considered anti-social networking services to some degree. The interview is interesting as it provides another perspective for looking at the prospects and the dangers of social networking technology.
Steering Between Unsocial Networks and Social Spam: A New York Times Blog post discusses some of the privacy considerations surrounding interoperability between social network services data and messaging systems.
