Matt McKeon has created a helpful page visually demonstrating the advance of Facebook user information through the internet.

And if you’re a bit tired of Facebook and privacy and all that jazz, how about an open-source video format? Google has announced the WebM project, supported by a bunch of big publishers. They’re implementing a royalty-free high-quality video codec, cutting through the HTML5 Ogg/H.264 conundrum like Alexander cutting through the Gordian knot.

That’s right, here at Get IT Here, we read the classics.

Youtube is already letting you join in the experiment if you want to, and it turns out that Microsoft will be supporting WebM with IE9. Now the ball’s in Apple’s court to get behind it, in the iPad, for example.

Mr Stevie Jobs, tear down this wall!