Data Portability Red Herrings
I think what’s interesting about the whole scoble facebook, plaxo issue is that it shows how much of a red herring the idea of data portability is when applied to the social graph. Of course you want to be able to take your data and move it to another provider, but when ‘your’ data [...]
Free Facebook app hosting from Joyent
Joyent is partnering with Facebook to offer free Facebook app hosting for a year with their Facebook Developer Accelerator offering. The service normally starts at $45/month, and the free service provides the equivalent of their $75/month offering. You get root access on a virtual machine that’s set up for Rails, PHP and Python. [...]
Excuse me while I adjust my tinfoil hat
I can’t tell if this is just a weird coincidence, or if facebook is somehow censoring anti-facebook items that appear in people’s news feeds. Here’s how my recent tweets look on twitter:
Note the one in the middle.
And here’s how they look via the twitter app in facebook:
Defang Facebook
I’ve been enjoying using Facebook, but the new advertising system, beacon, which essentially follows you as you surf and inserts things that you’re doing into you fb activity stream, is a brutal invasion of privacy. I know I can choose not to show these things, but I’m more concerned at the fact that facebook [...]