Why do I need to tell each and every web service who my friends are? Why can’t last.fm, flickr and twitter just get this information from Facebook? Likewise, why I do have to tell them all where I live, how old I am, what my website is, etc.?
The last release (Ubuntu 7.10) was the first in which we shipped Tracker enabled by default; this service runs in the background and indexes all of your files, storing information about them in a metadatabase which can subsequently be searched. The two main ways of searching are through the deskbar-applet (press Alt+F3) and within [...]
