For a while I've been using Facebook's API and Facebook Query Language (FQL) via Perl's WWW::Facebook::API module to run fairly innocent queries on my friends. If I visit a town, I'd like a reminder of who lives there. If I want to go rock-climbing, it helps if I can easily search to see which of my friends share that hobby. This is good, innocent stuff, and makes me glad to be a software developer.

Last week I decided to play with event searches. If a large number of my friends are attending an event, there's a good chance I'll find it interesting, and I'd like to know about it. FQL makes this sort of thing really easy; in fact, finding all your friends' events is on their Sample FQL Queries page.....

If you watch your kids these days you will see they use their mobile phone quite a bit. No they really use it quite a bit. Examining our last mobile bill I saw my teenage daughter had sent and received over 4000 text messages in one month. Having talked with her about this she told me it was nothing special. Nothing special! 4000 messages. I did not ask to see them but I can imagine. Looking into this apparently teenagers with mobiles each send and receive 2,272 text messages a month on average, Nielsen Mobile says.....

We have put our parental control software white paper online. Please feel free to download and read it. We have tried to keep it as short as possible. The parental control white paper covers quite a few concepts and ideas that spell out our thoughts and beliefs about helping keep kids safe when using the computer and doing stuff online....

An Associated Press report reveals that parental control web-monitoring software products 'Sentry' and 'FamilySafe' from the EchoMetrix company is harvesting data from kids' online chats, This information is used to try and determine their opinions on games, movies, and music. The data is then sold to other companies for advertising purposes.....

Twitter developers are now working on a GPS tracking system that will provide accurate information on your whereabouts (or your kids).....