TweetDeck (Review)

Over the last few days I have come to the point were I have to many tweets coming in at the same time that using the web interface was not working for me any more, so I went out and downloaded TweetDeck so I had a stand alone program to manage all of the post coming in.  Now it has been a long road to get everything working and I have finally come to the point that I can tell you guys about it.  TweetDeck is nice that I can take the groups I have already set up and show each one in there own column so I can keep track of everything by a simple category,  this lets me know that I'm reading my fellow blogger's tweets, or technology news.  This has given me so many different options to go over all of the information that is being presented.  But even though this new setup has let me actually go over all of the information it still has its draw backs, it dose not always load tweets right as they happen so you may be slightly behind, and it has had a few problems posting from the API. but as a viewer it is great that it gives me so many options to break down the information and go over it.  I would recommend that my fellow blogger's give it a try.

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Law VS. Technology

In today's fast past world technology is part of are everyday life, and that has become a problem to lawmakers and has changed how we interpret old laws that were put in place before technology was so main stream.  I came across information about Netflix, and Facebook, and with the popularity of both services why has there been no app that combines the two services.  And that all has to do with a very old law from the 1980's the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA).  This has to do with video service providers, disclosing its customers personally identifiable information.  Under VPPA the customer must provide written consent for any information to be shared publicly.  But Netflix has been able to make the system work for them,  were there largest rival Hulu now has a Facebook app.  It is unclear how they were able to get past VPPA but it could end up being a major blow to Netflix.  Were this is just one case of a company trying to progress into markets that are still new to having this level of information being stored and shared and how are future legislator's interpret cases like this will effect how connected are daily life's will be.