The store that claims to carry everything tech (they don’t) and to have all the info you need to make an informed decision (they definitely don’t) have realized they need some help on the knowledge front and started a forum. Normally I wouldn’t bother posting something like this – most tech shops have a user forum – but Future Shop is a more mainstream shop where people like your mother would go to get ripped off buy a TV or a computer so the forum might reach a larger audience.

The Future Shop Community Forum is a perfect opportunity for all the tech geeks out there to provide quality information to people who would otherwise get screwed over big time by the tech giant. And since the forum is fairly new you have a good chance of becoming one of the main posters if you jump in right now.

So go on, help your fellow man (or woman) and show Future Shop you know more about their products than all their sales staff combined. Maybe it’ll make them rethink their hiring routines.

Future Shop Community Forum

LiveStation is a collaboration between Microsoft Research and Skinkers and will allow you to watch TV shows in your browser through a P2P network. Being Microsoft the service uses Silverlight as it’s base so this will be a good reason to get the little application installed and ready to go (and a good chance for Microsoft to start competing with Adobe Flash for real).

The program is not ready yet but you can watch a demo at Soapbox.

Ole Morten Knudsen of Norwegian techno blog Teknofil.no has tried deleting his profile off the insanely popular social networking site Facebook. That turned out to be harder than he could ever imagine.

It turns out simply deleting your profile doesn’t actually erase any information off the web. Facebook will retain all info you have uploaded until the end of time and there is nothing you can do to stop them. Bad news for all the people that have uploaded everything about themselves including personal info, hundreds of images and even political and religious views not to mention sexual orientation.

So what can you do when you no longer want your life to be an open book? Knudsen has put together a guide on how to make the information you so willingly provided on Facebook as hard to access as possible:

1. Make your information as unavailable as possible

In the top right hand corner under Privacy set all your Profile settings to either “Only Me” or “No one”. That way you become hidden in the network. Still present but invisible.

2. Remove all your friends and groups

Sounds harsh to remove your friends but as long as you are a friend of theirs (on Facebook – not in real life) other people can access your information through their profile. Same goes for groups. Removing friends and groups is as easy as clicking on them in the Friends tab and selecting “Remove Friend” or “Leave Group”.

3. Delete all pictures and personal information

Go to your profile and delete all your personal information. Then delete all your uploaded photos. If you uploaded any other personal information like credit card numbers, hotmail account info or other things you should have kept to yourself delete these as well. To prevent Facebook to have future access to your Hotmail account it would be wise to change your account password in Hotmail as well.
Enter a new non-functional or spam email address. That way you won’t be bothered in the future. Finally change your name. You can do this under the “Account” settings in the top right corner. This final change can take some time but will eventually take place.

4. Deactivate your account

Deactivating your account does not delete it. It merely makes it dormant. Facebook will retain any info you have on your account which is why you need to do everything listed above. Even when your account has been deactivated you can access it with your username and password.

At the same time they rejected the proposal for tripple-x domain extensions (.xxx) for the third time as a result of criticism from governments, religious groups and the entertainment industry.  The tripple-x domain is proposed as a voluntary option for sites that are not suitable for children but it is obvious that having a tripple-x domain extension will give certain types of businesses a huge boost so the motivation is questionable.

From DomainPeople.com