Pascal Van Hecke – Daily Links

Niall Kennedy's writeup of the username-password antipattern legal complaint by Facebook against Power.com
"I hope other sites violated by Power.com such as Google, Microsoft, MySpace, and Hi5 put a stop to websites like Power harvesting user data instead of using permitted access methods such as OAuth"

the ICS equivalent of the RSS/Atom Feed Validator
(Useful for debugging why an ical event can't be added to your calendar)

Flash cookies are the single most important privacy risk when it comes to browsers.
Users are unaware of them, there is no easy way to delete them, and a lot more data can be stored client side than with traditional browser cookies.
This 2005 document explains how you can delete them

"A San Francisco chiropractor has sued a former patient for defamation after the patient posted a negative review on the web site Yelp. The case raises questions about the limits of privacy and free speech in an age of mass and instant communication."
BTW they settled out of court: http://searchengineland.com/yelp-case-settled-bigger-issues-remain-16114

"number of converters to and from different Blog services. The code is written in Python with scripts to execute the conversions either on the command-line, through a Windows batch script, or hosted on Google App Engine"