Hi. We are making a number of improvements and upgrades to Footfeed over the next several months and as a registered member of our community, we would appreciate getting your thoughts on how we can make it better by completing our short survey. We don’t have money or gift cards to bribe you with. Just our appreciation and gratitude, which is way more valuable!

Here is a link to the survey:

http://bit.ly/g5ZaB6

Thanks for your help!

The email sparked a number of complaints from fellow Footfeed beta testers, one of them pointing out the breach in the Footfeed privacy policy:

Information sharing

In addition to the uses noted above, Footfeed only shares personal information with other companies or individuals outside of Footfeed in the following limited circumstances:

We have your consent. We require opt-in consent for the sharing of any sensitive personal information.

We have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable governmental request, (b) enforce applicable Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of Footfeed, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.

If Footfeed becomes involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of its assets, we will provide notice before personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Please contact us at the address below for any additional questions about the management or use of personal data.

To date we have not received an apology from Footfeed regarding this break in their privacy policy.

Update [07/12/2010 @ 00:28]: Just had a message from Footfeed on Twitter informing me that “Footfeed did not cc: all beta testers. The issue occurred with exactly 100 users, not the other 9,200 users”, sorry for that. Still no response on the email thread/apology.

So what are the options?

Google Chrome

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Mozilla Firefox

Firefox was released by the Mozilla Foundation in November, 2004. Firefox has evolved tremendously since its launch in 2004 and has by far the largest number of extensions of any modern web browser.
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• iFooty – great app that helps you stay up-to-date with the latest football news and pulls in live match text from the BBC. Saves me loads of time checking the scores for the best team in the world!
• Remote – allows you to control your iTunes from your iPhone.
• Twitterific – Lets you post tweets/replies to Twitter and view your Twitter feed.
• Facebook for iPhone – allows you to use Facebook functionality on your iPhone. My favourite (and probably most over-used) feature is the photo uploader, which lets you take a photo and upload it “live” to Facebook.
• WordPress for iPhone – allows you to post to your WordPress blog using your iPhone.

iPhone Review

Over the past six months the iPhone has both delighted and frustrated me. The iPhone is not a great phone. It does not let you send MMS (although some say that being able to send an email is just as good), you cannot forward text messages or contact information, the camera quality isn’t great and it does not do video recording. However the ability to install great apps which increase your productivity and keep you ahead of the game make it a great accessory to have.

Think I’ve been fair? What are your favourite apps? Let me know in the comments!