As someone who’s setup many different varieties of OpenID servers (with varying degrees of success) in a so-far fruitless effort to get Attribute Exchange working for a proof-of-concept data portability project, I found this statement from Identity 2.0 very intriguing:
OpenID may be the desktop Linux to Facebook’s Windows. A geeky solution for the rebels.
The article [...]
In my personal opinion, Pieces of Flair is one of the best designed Facebook applications. I say this for a variety of reasons, one being that it does a good job of catering to both giggly and serious users.
But I did discover today that I can view any user’s flair, regardless of whether they choose [...]
Social Me is another Facebook application that was recently banned, then more recently reinstated. I’m not sure exactly why they were banned to start with, but they ought to know their application still has a gaping security hole. I hadn’t experimented with Social Me much before, but when I saw they were back online I [...]
If you haven’t heard, Facebook is getting ready to launch a major overhaul of its profile pages. Many have discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the new design (and I’ve contacted Facebook about a problem with the feed layout), but I wanted to give a few kudos to Zuckerberg & Co. for at least one [...]
If you’ve been keeping up with Facebook development news, you’ve no doubt heard about the Top Friends application getting banned. In the past I’d pointed out that you could access application data about other users, but that was before Slide created quasi-profile pages within the application. These exposed not only application data but actual profile [...]