online tools

Other people have reported it as well: Belgium has started censoring the Internet.

LinkedIn has just released a first batch of applications that you can install "to enrich your profile". They are very similar to Facebook's applications but of course they are geared towards business users. Some of the applications look interesting but I doubt that the use of these types of applications is allowed by the Belgian privacy laws.

Google has just started testing a new service to inform webmasters that their CMS is vulnerable to security exploits.

A couple of weeks ago I attended the Open Coffee Club Brussels (which was held in combination with the Brussels Girl Geek Dinner #7). During the event we got a beta invitation for the Billy prepaid gift card that will be launched later this month.

Yesterday Google added support for name tags to its Picasa Web Albums service. It relies heavily on face recognition software to make this task easy.

I'm no expert in this matter and I haven't been paying attention to the progress that has been made in this domain recently so I was surprised to see how good the face detection and recognition is.

I have finally entered the 21st century. I have received my electronic identity card, issued by the Belgian government.

Nice, but can I do something useful with it?

A couple of days ago del.icio.us decided to reduce the default number of items returned by their feeds. Last week a feed of a specific tag returned at least 25 items but today only 15 items are included.

MOO has a limited offer where you can order 50 business cards for free. The only catch is that you have to give them access to the details of your LinkedIn connections. The value of this offer is approximately 20 euro.

The last couple of months I have joined a number of LinkedIn groups. Some of these are official groups backed by a real organization or company (like the K.U.Leuven Computer Science Alumni or the The Greater IBM Connection) but others are pretty vague (like Consultants Network and IT Specialist).

Somebody at LinkedIn forgot to renew their SSL certificate: