Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On

This is a really good paper, definitely worth a read. This is my favourite part of it:

"If we are going to solve the world’s most pressing problems, we must put the power of the Web to
work—its technologies, its business models, and
perhaps most importantly, its philosophies of openness, collective intelligence, and transparency. And
to do that, we must take the Web to another level.
We can’t afford incremental evolution anymore.
It’s time for the Web to engage the real world.
Web meets World—that’s Web Squared"

Can Twitter Lead to Crime?

On the way to work this morning, I was reading the metro and I came across an article about how twitter updates can increase crime rates. There was an incident where a guy had mentioned he was going on holiday for a week, which lead to his house being robbed. What are your thoughts on this? Is this a serious concern. I personally lock down things like twitter and facebook so only people I know can see my posts. Does this mean as a result, the full features of the tools are not being embellished?