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We had a lot of requests from people both inside and outside of New Brunswick for pictures of our setup at the Temple during our API Preview here in Moncton. I’ve uploaded a few, you can check them out by clicking on the gallery below.

Facebook and Google don’t seem to be playing nice according to this article over at redOrbit.

Google’s Friend Connect allows the sites of musicians, political campaigns and others to incorporate profile data from several social networks. But just days after Friend Connect’s release, Facebook began blocking the program.

The popular social networking site claimed Google was violating Facebook’s restrictions on data sharing, despite the fact that Google was taking advantage of the same tools that Facebook made available free to other outside developers.

We had a fantastic time at MESHU and MESH 2008 this year. Mike and I are both decompressing and working with our teams here to respond to all of the information requests and contacts as a result of a great week.

In addition to our business cards, we also passed out individually numbered tickets during MESH. If you have one of the following numbered tickets, please contact us and we’ll send you an iPod Touch.

Winners are: 0102, 0154 and 205.

Wow, what a great time we had in Toronto last week! Thanks to the organizers of Mesh 2008 for an excellent conference. I’m back in Moncton now after an appearance at Energize IT on the weekend and looking forward to hearing from those of you I met in Toronto. More as I get settled in.

The CIRA, Canada’s domain name registrar, is introducing new polocies in June designed to offer greater privacy to those registering .ca domains according to this article.

Changes to the online ‘WhoIs’ system of identifying domain holders will be made effective June 10, the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) says, restricting the availability of information that identifies domain registrants. Currently, information such as name, address, e-mail and phone numbers are easily available online.

Well I guess that now I can’t honestly tell my friends and family who ask me about these spam emails offering thousands of dollars if you’ll just forward on the money are fake. It turns out sometimes they’re not fake, but they’re still a whole mess of trouble.

Sarah-Lee Ryan, a 20-year-old Wintec journalism student, has no access to her bank account after ASB froze it due to the deposit of a sum believed to be close to half a million dollars.

Miss Ryan had no idea who put the money in her bank account, but believed she was being used as a “mule” by scammers who hoped she would forward the sum on to them after taking a percentage for herself.

In a useful reminder that no application is perfect it has been discovered that some basic code used by a wide variety of Linux security programs has a critical security flaw.

Just two lines of code created crippling security holes in four different open source operating systems, 25 application programs, and millions of internet-attached computer systems. The vulnerability was publicly discovered for the first time May 13, after having left the door open nearly two years. A patch has been distributed, but that can do nothing to repair the damage that has occurred to compromise systems. Worse yet, it appears that through the installation of compromised keys on other systems, numerous systems not even running the code have likely been compromised.

This article also has a full rundown of the problem for those interested.

The BBC warns that experts are warning mobile phone users that our days of virus-free talking boxes may be coming to an end.

2008 has seen the release of about 10 new mobile viruses and trojans, said Simon Heron, managing director of security firm Network Box.

“There are about 400 variants of mobile malware compared to in excess of 700,000 for computers,” said Mr Heron. The vast majority of viruses written for mobile phones are aimed at the Symbian mobile operating system - a consequence of its early dominance.

The fully terrifying and British article is available here.

An Australian Law Reform Commission review of the countries privacy laws will recommend civil penalties for companies which fail to notify Australia’s federal Privacy Commissioner when any data security breach occurs according to this article.

Professor Weisbrot said a national data breach notification regime would provide strong incentives for organisations and agencies to secure their databases.

“Notification gives individuals the information and opportunity to protect against identity theft,” he said.

Mike and I will both be attending Cultivating Community. Then you’ll find me at Building a Brand on the Web and Measuring Social Media. Mike will be checking out Business Metrics and Reputation Monitoring and Management.