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It dawned on me this week: I'm cautious as hell about my Twitter credentials. Paranoid about my Facebook activity stream... And yet all you have to do is tell me there's an alpha of a Firefox add-on that will let me track my neighbors' toast consumption habits or plan birthday parties for the guppies at my kid's daycare, and I'm installing it without a second thought.

Do we all have our personal blind spots when it comes to security?

Feeling information overloaded? No doubt one of the sources of stress in your life are the unread items that await you daily in your RSS reader. No matter how many times you read through your feeds, new items always appear. Perhaps it's time to find a different way to get your news. An experimental Firefox add-on called Ambient News may be able to help.

It's the end of 2008 and everyone on the Web is hurting due to the economy. But we know that things will get better, because slow-downs eventually bury the old and give birth to new evolutionary ways of doing things.

One of these evolutions started quietly in 2008. We are witnessing the rise of a new kind of web: contextual. You might not have heard or thought about it much yet, but you are already using it today. Search remains the killer app on the web, but context is quickly become a viable contender. Why? Because context is what happens instead of search.