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Numerous sites are reporting that Facebook Chief Technology Officer Adam D’Angelo is leaving Facebook. Yesterday I speculated about the actual reasons behind the announcement to discontinue Network Pages and less than 24 hours later comes the news of the departure of the co-founder and CTO. According to All Things Digital the loss of their CTO is not exactly on good terms:

…according to sources close to the company, D’Angelo felt his responsibilities no longer fit well with his skills and interests.

In other words the company has changed into something D’Angelo no longer want to be part of. I feel this confirms my suspicion that there was something more behind the odd announcement to discontinue a popular and useful feature. The more I read about Facebook the more I think there are strong political machinations occurring at the highest management level and again, only time will tell if this is a good or a bad thing for the company.

Facebook networks are great way to connect with people in your city, country, area, or topic of interest, and C|net is reporting that Facebook will be discontinuing network pages soon. I have confirmed that this is indeed true as the following message now appears on my facebook account…

Network Pages will be discontinued soon
Facebook will soon be removing Network Pages from the site. Please keep this in mind when communicating with others on the Wall and on the discussion board. You can use Groups to connect with the people around you.

This announcement by Facebook is hard to understand. There must be a very good reason for it, at least in Facebooks eyes (pun intended:). I’m more than curious to know exactly what the reason is, because it is hard to imagine why they would remove such a useful feature from their popular network.

The reason for the change may simply be to consolidate the now separate networks and groups, making the new groups communication system even larger and more powerful. But the skeptic in my says there is something else behind the move but only time will tell. In the meantime, here’s a Facebook parody from sketch group Idiots Of Ants, definitely worth a look if you need a laugh…

I added this site to Technorati.com barely a week ago and things were going great at first but in the last couple of hours I have been getting constant errors. When I visit the site I get the following friendly message:

Doh! The Technorati Monster escaped again. We’re scouring the blogosphere attempting to find it. Back in a flash!

And this is what it looks like:

Sometimes I don’t even get the Technorati Monster error page and instead get a Proxy Error that looks like this:

Technorati is a great service for bloggers so It would be a real shame if they couldn’t sort these problems out quickly.

A keylogger records keystrokes which is an obvious security threat to sensitive information like your banking password. Some Keyloggers can be very hard to detect as they dont appear as a process and aren’t detected by anti-virus software. Keyloggers work by recording every single keystroke that is entered via keyboard, so a person with access to the keylogger can see those keystrokes including any passwords that were typed. Obviously you don’t want this to happen because it could result in the draining of your bank account.

The goal of this article is to help avoid this happening to you and luckily there are a few simple methods that can be used to defeat a keylogger. Knowing at least one of these methods is critical if you are using a public computer, such as those found at an internet cafe’s which have an extremely high risk of infection with a keylogger of some kind.

Types of Keyloggers?

Keyloggers come in both hardware and software types. A software keylogger can be installed in different ways such as via an infected email message or when installing software, especially software downloaded from the internet. Hardware keyloggers require physical access to the computer and come in both USB or PS2 versions, which look something like this…
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