FB has added a cool new feature which syncs your phonebook contacts with your Facebook ones. Pictures, web pages and phone numbers are all pulled from Facebook and added to the relevant contact in your phonebook.

Lovely feature, we hear you cry, but there is a flip-side. Bear this upgrade in mind next time you change your profile picture on Facebook to something mildly compromising – or ‘amusing’ – because the next time you phone your boss on his mobile that’s the image that will be popping up on his screen!

It’s actually pretty useful if you’re a regular on Twitter, particularly if you’re following a diverse range of twitter-folk.

Happily Mashable have put together a top-ten guide to the new Twitter lists, so get inspired and start listing!

PS – Twitter’s fail-whale is my favourite tech animal at the moment (sorry Tux), so that’s why he’s the image for this article – we’re not implying that the new lists will cause Twitter to crash any more than usual!

For those not in the know, Google describes its new wave technology as “an online tool for real-time communication and collaboration. A wave can be both a conversation and a document where people can discuss and work together using richly formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more.”

We’ve had a play and we’re pretty excited about the possibilities for this shiny new toy – for fun, for sharing ideas and work within the office, and even for talking to clients.

Google Wave is in beta at the moment, but it won’t be long before it goes mainstream and we all start riding the waves…

The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
“I’ve just posted a video of a cut down version of my stump speech on my new book The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism, explaining why it’s often better to compete with pirates in the market place rather than fight them in the courts, and why we as a society need to reevaluate the ways we think about sharing information.”

“In The Future of Ideas, Lawrence Lessig explains how the Internet revolution has produced a counterrevolution of devastating power and effect. The explosion of innovation we have seen in the environment of the Internet was not conjured from some new, previously unimagined technological magic; instead, it came from an ideal as old as the nation. Creativity flourished there because the Internet protected an innovation commons. The Internet’s very design built a neutral platform upon which the widest range of creators could experiment. The legal architecture surrounding it protected this free space so that culture and information–the ideas of our era–could flow freely and inspire an unprecedented breadth of expression. But this structural design is changing–both legally and technically.”

Get it here

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/google-cracks-o.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/21/google-to-out-open-facebook-on-november-5/

http://uk.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUKN3043165520071031

“The Semantic Web is an evolving extension of the World Wide Web in which web content can be expressed not only in natural language, but also in a format that can be read and used by software agents, thus permitting them to find, share and integrate information more easily.”

Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/
http://www.semanticweb.org/