I have been using the Apture plugin on this blog for many months now and I truly love it! It has helped save me time in researching for blog posts and making embedding content a whole lot easier. But not only can it be useful for authoring this blog, but it can also make understanding and researching certain portions of a post for the reader very convenient.
So I have one simple question for you: Have you had a chance to try out the Apture feature on this blog and was it helpful.
If you haven’t utilized it as a reader here, would you please try it out and leave a comment. I am a little pass due to email the Apture developers about my experience with it, but before I do I’d like a little input from you.
One of the questions about our new terms of use is whether Facebook can use this information forever. When a person shares something like a message with a friend, two copies of that information are created—one in the person’s sent messages box and the other in their friend’s inbox. Even if the person deactivates their account, their friend still has a copy of that message. We think this is the right way for Facebook to work, and it is consistent with how other services like email work. One of the reasons we updated our terms was to make this more clear.
Well that was quite a round about way of answering. Are you (the reader) satisfied with this reply?
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ORIGINAL POST – February 16, 2009
I just read that Facebook has a new terms of service or shall we refer to the new TOS as “Terms of Screwing” you and your content, for lack of a better phrase. No matter what you do now, any content that you have uploaded to Facebook belongs to them…FOR-E-VER!! Kind of gives of the scene in the movie “The Sandlot” where the kid ominously repeats “forever.”
I’m not going to re-hash what can be read in the original online source (theconsumerist.com), but what has me dazed and confused was pointed out by one commenter that goes by the name of Silver Bolt.
He stated:
[Facebook TOS]: ‘You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual , non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license.’
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[Facebook TOS]: ‘You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content.’
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Those two sections were contradictory in the first place. How can a irrevocable forever license expire?
