A few days ago, Facebook quietly changed their friend rejection procedure. Instead of opting to Ignore, you can now only defer the put-down by clicking Not Now. But those purgatoried people can still read all your public info and updates. As TechCrunch observes, when someone sends you a Friend request they get immediate access to the information that you’ve designated as available to Everyone in your privacy settings. Once...

Since YouTube’s launch, the longest video you could upload was 10 minutes. No longer! Boing Boing reports that in the near future, that limit will rise to 15 minutes. Pro online video companies can already break the 10 minute limit, but this will open the door to anybody and everybody to upload longer videos. It’s good news for people breaking up longer content into multiple parts as well as people just creating longer...