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ENZO: Hi. This is Enzo F. Cesario PING! PANG! What was that? Ping, Pang. Ben, How's it going?

BEN: It's going well. How are you doing?

ENZO: I'm doing well. Facebook isn't doing so well this week. They got slammed! So what's the big deal with giving all your information to Facebook, Ben?

BEN: Because then they'll give it to everyone else.

ENZO: Right. Guess what though…according to the New York Times, they call these guys four nerds, these four guys got together on a site called KickStarter which helps start-ups get funding. They came up with this idea - it's an open source privacy aware social network, to safeguard against giving your data away because apparently once you give your data away online, it's gone forever. Whoever has it, they get to keep it forever. So they came up with this idea called Diaspora, which gives every person the opportunity to install their own kind of node on a network so you can control how you share information. It's kind of a closed thing so it's not given to anybody. It's very interesting. They only needed $10 Grand through Kickstarter and they already have $138,000 so there's a lot of interest in it. And that's in less than 12 days, crazy. Crazy. So if you have a small business, it's not a good idea to put all your eggs in one basket. Marketing for a business is kind of like the stock market - you've got to diversify…diversify it! And as a matter of fact, there's even more heat coming down, check out this site right here, its called QuitFacebookDay. You've got to be aware of privacy issues. If you're sick of Facebook's lack of respect for your data, add your name to commit to quit. That is crazy.

BEN: Number one search term on Google - How do I quit Facebook?

ENZO: How do I quit Facebook - yikes. What does that mean for companies? Do they take your data too? Do you own that? You don't. Facebook gets to use it and do whatever they want with it. So, kinda scarey stuff for Facebook. We'll see how it all pans out in the next couple of weeks. They might be gone in a week! Ha ha. Here's some happy, happy news for Ben because he's always complaining about everything. He's a complainer. Skype just announced that you can do multiple video conferences at one time now. But you can't do it with people on Macs. Who cares? But doesn't iChat already have that? I've been using iChat for ages. Can you do that on your PC, Ben?

BEN: Now I can!

ENZO: Now you can! He he. Anyway, good news for you PC, Personal Computer users out there. Skype look into it. Enzo F Cesario, thanks for joining, see you next time.