Who's More Dumb: Facebook or its Users?

Facebook quietly changed its terms of service agreement (TOS) recently. Bloggers freaked, triggering a public uproar that forced Facebook to revert back to the older version and come up with a better TOS agreement.

The Facebook TOS always said, essentially, that the good people at Facebook can do anything they want with pictures and other content you upload. Those goofy pictures you uploaded of you and your high school buddies? Yeah, Facebook owns those.

The old, re-posted version of Facebook's TOS had a thin thread of user control in the form of an explicit termination of the full license when you delete something. The now-revoked new version took that away.

Here's what they (temporarily) changed. First, they removed the following passage:
"You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."

And they added this:

"The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service."
The changes implied that anything you upload to Facebook belongs to Facebook forever, even after you delete everything and cancel your account, if that were even possible.

The mea culpa for this debacle came from CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a Facebook posting, in which he makes the case that Facebook needs such rights in order to legally facilitate user content sharing.

For more: Read the whole article Who's More Dumb: Facebook or its Users?

Save Palestine through your own content

The attempts to erase the Palestinian history by Israelis and pro Israelis are not new or top secret. The killing and ethnic cleansing that has previously taken place in different areas in Palestine when Jews decided to build a country on the land of Palestine is a way... The political recognition of Israel and the ignorance of the fact that Palestine is over there is another way, in addition to redrawing maps to erase the existence of Palestine...

There are many other ways to support Israel against Palestinians, Muslims and Arabs. Unfortunately, we are not doing very well to protect our history, traditions, culture, rights and lands.... How many documents online do we have about forgotten villages and cities, real names and numbers and actual ownerships of lands? How many of them are in English? If any searcher wanted to find the real version of the story, can he/she find it anywhere? Why can't we have an online edition of the Palestinian encyclopedia (الموسوعة الفلسطينية)? Is there any kind of donations for documenting the history of Palestine or even what was lost in Iraq?

Let's try starting something, collecting content, publishing it online, bookmarking it and adding it to our social networking profiles.

Please help Palestine and Palestinians.
Please write about Palestine if you know and if you can.

Test Your Blog

While I was Checking a website called SEO by the sea, I went through an article that I liked called (Test Your Blog) by Bill Slawski So I thought of sharing it with you.

Test Your Blog

I’m in a testing mood tonight, and put together a list of tests that you can run your blog or web site through if you feel up to learning more about your pages…

1. See what grade level your blog is at with the Blog Readability Test.
2. Find out if the Gender Genie can predict the gender the your blog’s author.
3. Gauge how well the HTML or XHTML of your blog validates with the W3C Markup Validation Service.
4. Discover whether your site is available behind the Great Firewall of China.
5. Check out how accessible your website might be with the Wave Accessibility Tool.
6. Take a peek at how your site might appear on an iphone.
7. Explore your site to see if you have broken links.
8. Let Microsoft Adcenter determine how much commercial intent your site seems to have.
9. Make your site render in grayscale.
10. Get an estimate of how many visitors your site gets a day.
11. See how your site looks in different browsers.
12. Extract the Colors and their names from your site.
13. Catch people who might be plagiarizing your words on the Web.
14. Convert your site to text only to make it easier to read on a phone or other handheld device.
15. Translate your page into another language (I liked how mine looked in Traditional Chinese).

MBC Is Rewarding Her Users

Yes, yes we're talking again about MBC portal....

I was trying to check what MBC is having on its portal today, and i found a nice reward from them: The site's design is corrupted, and hence, people are unable to find the content they need... So friendly and usable :)

Check this out:

Youtube removes Gaza massacre videos

Shame on you Youtube! Shame on you Google!

A colleague once told me that Youtube was removing his videos about Gaza massacres, and that he closed his account as a response.... Then i read a post on a blog that Youtube is doing with all videos relavant to Gaza. Why? Obviously, it's an open war against humanity by powerful people pro killing inside Youtube... Well, We can create other websites Youtube, and we can have our videos overthere...

If you are interested in the case, and would like to upload your videos to support brothers and sisters in Palestine, visit IkhwanTube.

MBC 4

I saw an ad on the TV about MBC 4's website, where they were trying to feature Oprah as the main issue. I went to my PC and typed the URL they are promoting for (http://www.mbc.net/mbc4), and this one redirect me to a very long and strange URL, and guess what!.... A page with a proxy error showed up! I also checked their cached version (from Google cache) and couldn't find anything!

Guys if you can't have a stable site, don't promote for it. It's bad for SEO, bad for your reputation and frustrating for your users.

You need to work harder MBC portal team... Good Luck!

Addustour newspaper and SEO جريدة الدستور و السيو

Addustour newspaper or جريدة الدستور is a local Jordanian newspaper, and one of the very first ones in the country.

See the updated post on my new blog: SPNzone

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