The main story is hosted by wired and can be found here. I am glad that gizmodo is getting a lot of heat and the guy that “found” the 4g in the first place will be enjoying his dance with the legal system. Balking at Steve Jobs?! Come on gizmodo, that just discredits you even more. I’m not bitter because those no talent ass clowns (office space joke) nit picked my macbook mod when it went semi viral but you don’t mess with a company that is as secretive as the NSA or someone who can finagle themselves onto the top of an organ donor list (unprovable of course).

Hopefully a precedent gets set so other small companies get dissuaded from attempting shenanigans like this in the future. I enjoyed seeing the info, but I think I would rather have waited for the official Apple event. I bet Apple will mention something about this and pun off of it.

Sorry my little Sony Ericcson V600i. You have been an awesome phone for 4 and a half years but I think it is nearly time to decommission you.

Over the past few months, I have watched as facebook has constantly been in the news for this or for that. I have noticed though, that a majority of the occurrences relate to the privacy of their users. It started with beacon a while ago and people made enough noise that they scaled down their plans for complete information domination. They have been gradually eroding their privacy policy and their is nothing that the end user can do to stop it; they already have the keys to the car and house and in some cases, are tapped into your bank (although that information is still private, to a degree).

We, the user, are helpless to stop them. Although people are chattering and are not happy, the face behind facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, was quoting as saying some to the effect of “I don’t care about the users privacy.” Why should he? People have already uploaded their entire college experience, the early years of their children and other memories that some might not want as memories. You may believe that you still hold the power over them; you’ll just delete them. They still reside on facebook servers. They still have a profile with all of your information. Another number in the vast sea of numbers.

People then use the argument that they will switch to another platform that has a more conducive privacy policy. Facebook has a gazillion users and you are kept as one of them with the lure of missing out on the reconnection with your dear old chum from elementary school or hearing from your long lost best friend who moved away during the summer of freshman year. This is a great feature. People also use it to talk to old friends and family that I wouldn’t normally talk to. Facebook is well aware of this and has/is getting away with murdering your privacy. They serve ads to you based on your profile. When will they serve you ads based on your conversations in facebook chat or your wall feed convo’s? I must give them credit though, the custom engraved beer boot is a neat product.

Privacy is an ever growing mirage on the internet. Facebook diluting their privacy policy only heightens this fact. A lot of companies are unchecked by the majority of the general user base and they use that to their advantage. They only care about us as long as it allows them to make money.

The Awkward Button Lite is now ranked 37th in Canada. It happened last Sunday. I opened MyAppSales (its an app by a fellow developer to-you guessed it-chart sales/downloads) and was saw a huge spike. Fearing something ‘funny’ had happened, I logged onto itunes connect and grabbed the daily report, opened it up and bam. There it was. A few hundred people downloaded the free button; I hit a rank of 40. I monitored it for a few days and then started up the chatter with my friends. I found no blog posts or anything toting the Awkward Button Lite as an awkwardness fighting tool, so I have no idea how it all started.

I can only make an educated guess as why it is doing so well. Awkwardness. People need help fighting awkwardness. And what better way than with an app.  They download the free version and are temporarily protected. If only they would buy the paid version and become completely protected from awkwardness. Awkwardness would be eradicated from Canada and the Mounties would have one less thing to worry about.