Stop Google From Finding Your Facebook Account

David retweeted a very useful article by New York Times this morning. And I spent nearly 10 minutes reconfiguring my Facebook privacy. It was a good 10-minutes spent to ensure my personal data is secured.

And for the ladies, did you know if I Googled your name, normally your Facebook account will be in the search results? Now you do. So I’m writing a visual tutorial for you to prevent Google from finding your Facebook account.

Step 1: Go to Privacy Settings under Account

After you’ve logged into Facebook, look at the top right corner and click Account. The Privacy Settings is in the dropdown menu.

Step 2: Click Search

Step 3: Uncheck the Allow

And, you’re done. But like any optimization exercise, it ain’t magic. You’ll need to give Uncle Google time to get up. How long exactly I don’t know. But be a little patient.

Digg Redesign in The Works

Found out Digg was having a redesign made to its current website. Whether it’s to boost user experience or cut down load time, we’ll probably find out later. But to keep its fans up to date, they’ve a sneak peek page up and running.

Based on the screenshot, what I thought Digg removed their iconic curvy yellow boxes, actually have become less curvy. They look square from the screenshot but in reality, will have a less smoothness.

The other noticeable design changes from the current website, its going to be more structured and organized. Plus, there’s a prioritized advertising space on the right side.

Now, Digg’s implemented an extended strategic under construction page to not only tease current users but continue data mining efforts of intrigued users.

Good or Bad: Facebook Acquired Malaysia Octazen Solution

Few days ago, I caught word from Chee Aun on Twitter that Facebook acquired a Malaysian company; Octazen Solution.

I’m always very excited and curious whenever I hear an acquisition of a Malaysian company by an international entity. To me, this represents our potential and richness of hidden talent in Malaysia.

And it was a Facebook acquisition!

If you’re in the web industry, you won’t let this slide by you. Because Facebook has become a multi-billion business, you’d be more curious than the cat. And so I purred.

But was it for good or bad?

The discussion of the acquisition at TechCrunch is very interesting. Octazen customers and industry players have come forth saying they (Octazen) are an information scraping company.

This now has many questioning if Facebook acquired the small company for its talents (owners) for the good or other reasons.

What will Facebook do with all that data?

Is the phrase; world domination, included in their plans. Or, even more optimistic, to overrule Google itself?

Well, we can only wait and see now.

WordPress 2.9.2 Not a Major Upgrade

I just found out WordPress released a mini upgrade to its current version; 2.9.1. However, there really is nothing major and to be worried about, if you’re wondering – unless, you run a multi-author blog.

Looking Into Other People’s Trash

Thomas Mackenzie alerted us to a problem where logged in users can peek at trashed posts belonging to other authors. If you have untrusted users signed up on your blog and sensitive posts in the trash, you should…

Source: WordPress

As the WordPress team shared, unless you’re worried about your content being exposed by other authors whom you thought you could trust, it’s best you upgrade.

But if you’re the only author of your blog, then there is nothing to fret.

Google Adds Buzz Into Gmail

The new buzz word in town is Google Buzz – pun intended. But many (including myself) are still wondering why did Google create or introduce Buzz as a service? Plus, they’ve already integrated it into Gmail.

I’ve many questions regarding the Google Buzz service:

1. What is it suppose to be?
2. How do we use it?
3. How is it different from Google Wave?
4. Is Google trying to introduce a new social network platform?

But I would definitely want the answer to Q1. Because without knowing what it really is for, I’d think it’s merely a Twitter competitor.