Facebook pre-approves other websites to access your personal info

If you care who uses your Facebook data, you should get ready to change your privacy settings. Facebook Connect, which delivers your personal data to other sites that you choose, is about to start delivering it to sites that Facebook has pre-approved.

Which sites are on the pre-approved list to get your data?

We don't know yet, because Facebook hasn't actually released a list. All we can tell from the available information is that you might show up at a third-party website and be surprised that it already has access to information like your name, birthday, or friends list.

Here's the exact language Facebook has used to explain the new policy:

Pre-Approved Third-Party Websites and Applications. In order to provide you with useful social experiences off of Facebook, we occasionally need to provide General Information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use Platform at the time you visit them (if you are still logged in to Facebook). Similarly, when one of your friends visits a pre-approved website or application, it will receive General Information about you so you and your friend can be connected on that website as well (if you also have an account with that website). In these cases we require these websites and applications to go through an approval process, and to enter into separate agreements designed to protect your privacy.

Let Facebook know what you think!

File transfer on its way to Gmail chat

The crew from Mountain View has just announced that both iGoogle and Orkut chat now have built-in file transfer.

Next stop: Gmail chat, where you'll soon be able to send files to chat participants. Start a chat, click actions, send your file.

[Official Google Blog]

Google releases Chrome 5 Beta

 

Google has just released Chrome 5 to the Beta channel.

Not a major release, but all in all, Chrome development seems to be moving very fast.

Google Chrome : Internal Flash plug-in integration

Both Adobe and Google have officially announced that the non-NPAPI plug-in version of Flash is ready for us to test in the latest developer channel build of Chrome.

 

Google will be including Flash Player in Chrome so users will always have the most current release and a safer and more seamless experience.It makes sense for Google to start bundling the internal plug-in for a number of reasons.

“Internal plug-in will automatically update itself using Chrome's built-in mechanism, eliminating the need for out-of-browser Flash updating.”

Google Chrome : Sync your theme & everything else

Google Chrome can already sync your bookmarks, but soon just about everything you tweak which makes your browser synchronized as well.

Why all the syncing?

It's extremely handy if you use Chrome on a number of different computers.