Clean your Google history with only a couple of clicks

Google will soon change its privacy policies and will show us a new look.
The move is already creating discussion at the European level and there were formulated several calls for investigating seriously the implications.
For those keen to get ready with a relatively clean Google history, this tutorial may help.
What really makes me sad is that for various commercial aims - which I understand and sometimes I am also using on a daily working basis - Internet is becoming more a business than a way to enjoy expanded possibilities for knowledge.
I just was reminded this morning how lame are Google's policies in terms of promotion and development of its products. Take, for example, Google+ which was joined rapidly by millions, shortly after launch only because it was a brand made by Google, but whose development was neglected. The development strategies of this company are very slow and relatively reluctant in my opinion. When you have such a brand, you are bold to engage your customers.
Anyway, from tomorrow on, get ready for changes.

Delete me!

It is a cure for everything...when it comes to the online world. Sordid or simply unpleasant traces can be eliminated. Apparently, for ever.

Facebook+Skype-Love

The Skype platform will be incorporated to Facebook, allowing users to have real-time dialogues and conversations. I don't know yet how it is possible to have a selective choice of your Skype details: maybe you don't want to share all the information with all your Facebook friends? Or you want to use it without being bothered with various unwanted calls.

I discovered yesterday the last version of Microsoft Windows Live, newly launched and a bit controversial in terms of security. As a simple user, I discovered elements allowing a better organization of the contacts, the introduction of the video messages and the possibility to select your conversations. I will try to find and test more features over the week-end.

Where is our privacy?

New concerns regarding the use without consentment of identification data of users from Facebook are nothing but new. From my own experience with Facebook or other social networks, the last matter of preoccupation of - by far - too many users is privacy. Despite the relative publicity around the issue of protecting data, too many persons - all ages, as I noticed - are eager to share very personal and direct information about themselves, their families - including children - even their personal finances. No wonder, this is a very real fact. Remember about those people you've meet on a tram and in five minutes they told you everything about relationship, future and the daily meals.

Of course, this is not an excuse to let other people use them for not at all innocent causes. All I wanted to outline was that we do not even ignore our vulnerabilities, but in some cases we even want to let as many inhabitants of the planet as well.

Medical records - on line?

Risks and opportunities. It is obvious that the on-line system cannot avoid the health-care system. But, it is not easy: you need trainings with the medical staff - from the technical aspects to purely communications ones. For example, how to be able to communicate, to use on-line portals and offer more than a simple medical service, but also a friendly environment, fit to the requirement of a new emerging generation of patients - more informed, but equally possible victims of the overinformation (think about the big number of sites where people not with a medical qualification are giving advices who are took into account, including about pharmacological self-treatment. And on-line is a place as well for miraculous healings and charlatans). The most important is privacy and data security. Ethical data management.