Herbert Mühlburger's Blog

I decided to delete my Facebook account. For all of you who ask now: Why did you do so? Here are my main reasons that led to this decision: Privacy issues I want to be in control on the data that I share I am concerned about my privacy and therefore I do want to [...]

Today was the kick-off  meeting of NOSQL Summer here in Graz, Austria. A NOSQL Summer is a network of local reading groups, that will decipher & discuss NOSQL-related articles, from late June to early September 2010. Each group sets its own meeting pace (usually once a week or once every two weeks) and select which papers [...]

Mashable has just published a post titled “Nobody Can Stop Facebook Because Nobody Understands Facebook“. There is an interesting sentence in this post: Have the nuances of online privacy become so complex that they’re beyond the comprehension of mere mortals? I’m not saying that Facebook has any intent to cause confusion, but the complexities of [...]

On a six-minute interview on stage with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg states that if he’d start facebook again all privacy settings by DEFAULT would be PUBLIC. A very interesting approach which leads to the question if people want if all of their data is available publicly? I personally do not. Here [...]