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Infinite Bass Line: Why is Facebook suggesting I connect with someone it shouldn't even know that I know?
Jason Clarke:
Facebook’s tool found Alice in Bob’s address book, but even after being presented with Alice’s profile as a possible contact, Bob chose not to friend her (since they barely knew each other). Since Bob wouldn’t make the first move, Facebook is now showing Bob to Alice as a suggested friend hoping that Alice will initiate the connection. Basically, Facebook is going behind Bob’s back after he explicitly chose not to friend Alice, and is trying to get Alice to do make the connection anyway.
I can just hear Mark Zuckerberg behind closed doors: “Soon, we will all become one with people we barely know. Resistance is futile.”
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Among other things, the investigation revealed that Facebook’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, took private Facebook member login information and used it to break into the private email accounts of those members. […]
Facebook has not denied that this incident took place. Facebook also has not denied that Mark later hacked into the servers of a competitor, ConnectU, and changed some user information.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Needs To Address The Hacking Incidents - Silicon Alley Insider
Despicable.
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Massive Facebook and MySpace Flash Vulnerability Exposes User Data - TechCrunch
This definitely gets me on board with Flash for open government. Definitely. Especially since the debugging process for Flash is so simple.
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Facebook posts transcript of attempted hacking chat
A hacker takes over “Jill’s” Facebook account and attempts to trick her friend Derek out of $890. Facebook posts the transcript to its Facebook Security account as a warning to users.
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”A white guy named David discovers every variation of his name on Facebook is already taken, and finally reconsiders the condescending contempt he’s always had for black people who give their kids unique names. This tiny bit of racial reconsideration is the only unequivocally good news to come out of the Facebook Usernames launch.
Exclusive: The Future of Facebook Usernames - Anil Dash
Why’s it gotta be a white guy named David, huh?
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Qik live streaming video service gains Facebook Connect
Qik is a live streaming video service that works on a boatload of mobile phones, and tonight it just gained Facebook Connect. This means that you can stream your videos live with Qik’s service and upload them to your Facebook profile all at once.
I’ll try this out soon with the Qik iPhone app that I have been helping to beta test. This is a very smart move to boost both market and mind share.
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Inside The New Facebook Layout
The guy seems a bit annoying at first, but the rest of the video’s pretty funny. Half-promise.
via Chris Thompson
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iPhone apps that roll with Facebook Connect are arriving in the App Store. This is Urbanspoon, so any restaurants that I rate or mark as favorites appear in my Facebook news feed. Touch Arcade says games are doing this now too.
Seems like MySpace is getting pummeled in the “social” aspect of networking these days.
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Facebook’s application experience is broken.
I get periodic requests from friends who want to add some sort of birthday calendar or notification service to their profile via an app called MyCalendar. Months ago when I noticed the first one, I clicked the app’s name to find out what it was. This brought me not to an app landing page with an explanation or information about the developer, but an “Allow Access?” page that prompts me to install MyCalendar with a warning that it will be able to access “your profile information, photos, your friends’ info, and other content that it requires to work.”
Setting aside questions about why on earth MyCalendar would ever need things like my friends’ photos or any profile information other than my birthday, I clicked on the name of the application in this warning box hoping to actually get to some kind of aforementioned app landing page.
What I saw months ago is what is still there now: no description of what the hell MyCalendar does, what information it pulls from my profile, or even who made it. Just a list of my other friends who have it installed, MyCalendar’s total number of users, and total fans.
Clicking the “Go to Application” button simply takes me back to the installation screen that got me into this mess.
I have no idea whether all these people have been duped or spammed into using this app, and the “Contact Developer” link at the bottom produces a Facebook-hosted e-mail form with absolutely no information on who or what I am contacting. No developer name, no company name—just a form pre-filled with my personal e-mail address and a notice that my message will be delivered to “the creator of MyCalendar,” whoever the hell that is.
Facebook’s application experience is utterly and depressingly broken.
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Now available on 1FPS: logging in via Facebook.
I use Disqus, a hosted comment service, to facilitate conversation here at 1FPS. The company recently launched support for Facebook Connect, so I’m hopping on the bandwagon. You now have the option of using your Facebook credentials to log into 1FPS, identify yourself, join the discussion on any post, and sharing your comments in your Facebook news stream. Enjoy.
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Facebook Faced of the Day: Clever boy.
[lamebook.]
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Now testing: Direct video uploads
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This little script is dangerous. It will destroy every Tumblr post in a given blog.
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