I apologize for this off-topic rant, but it’s been sitting on my mind for a little while… The best part of using all these social plugins on a site as small as mine is how pathetic it makes the site look. I try not to pollute everything with ‘like this’, ‘share that’, ‘spam your friends!’ [...]
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Facebook Changed – Now I Look Bad
April 14th, 2010
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This morning I was checking the status of a couple of my Facebook apps when I noticed something strange. My beloved Hangman! is asking me for my email address. But.. but.. I never told it to. Why is it asking me? I didn’t set the flags that I’m supposed to set. I double checked – [...]
Don’t Allow Facebook Apps to Get Your Email
March 10th, 2010
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Just say no to these prompts. There’s no need a Facebook application has any need to email you directly bypassing the “safe” realm of what Facebook already offers. Applications that need to contact you can already do so via your in box, application counters, and emailing you via Facebook’s email proxy. (A proxy which protects [...]
Don’t Trust Facebook’s Photo Privacy At All
November 22nd, 2009
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You constantly hear about things happening to people because of things on facebook. Mostly pictures and how certain people who probably shouldn’t be able to see them somehow managed to see them. And it goes sort of like this. I have a photo album called ‘Pets‘ and this album on Facebook. This album has the [...]
OpenID Providers, Where Are You?
September 19th, 2009
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OpenID would be much easier to implement and use if the big-guns who’ve all promised support over a year ago actually have working production environments. Yahoo! is currently the only one of the big three who properly support OpenID. Google, Microsoft, where are you? Enough with the usability testing – lets roll this shit out.
