This Week in Tech 101

Google Street View and privacy, Michael Moore and piracy, hackers and Safari...

• Leo has begun to use Facebook for only people he knows personally.
• Facebook has recently allowed for applications which enticed Leo.
• The People Aggregator will allow you to create a social network using your login from another social network.
• Create your own social network with Ning.
• Steve Jobs keynoted the WWDC conference announcing Safari for Windows, but no API.
• Apple has plugged several security flaws that were discovered in the Windows version of Safari.
• At WWDC, numerous new OSX Leopard features were unveiled.
• Steve Gillmor had a post called iPhonomics regarding the possibility of Google Gears coming to the iPhone.
• Linspire has made a deal with Microsoft to share numerous technologies.
• Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, somewhat chastised Microsoft regarding software patents.
• Microsoft has also partnered will LG for their Linux-based devices.
• Owen Thomas, the Business 2.0 editor, has been to Valleywag.
• Sicko, Michael Moore's new controversial documentary, has been leaked onto Bittorrent.
• The Manchester Cathedral is complaining to Sony about their appearance in the game "Resistance: Fall of Man."
• Google has launched a "Street View" service that are fairly recent. Leo's buddy Patrick Norton was actually caught on it crossing the street. Check out the top 15 sightings on Google Street View.
• Keep track of Google Street View sightings at StreetViewr.
• Audio is a Facebook application that allows people to upload audio - giving way for piracy to happen on the site.
• eBay threated to take their ads off of Google.
• It is the 50th anniversary of the Frisbee.

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