I found out about this quiz from American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on This Week in Tech (TWiT) and thought sharing this information is important. This quiz (yep, its a quiz to demonstrate how harmful they can be) tells you the data accessible to third party applications when you give these small quizzes. Worst part [...]
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Earlier this year I did a podcast on Facebook platform and why it is attractive. But since then I am losing interest in Facebookâs capabilities and thus this blog post. In that podcast we discussed how Facebook connect/Google connect are going to be used as openIDs and would help build communities around external sites. Those [...]
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Last few weeks have been extremely busy and was completely away from Blogging and Podcasting. Today I had some time and tried WP-FB Connect Plugin to enable commenting on my blog using Facebook login. Seems like it is working now, but I am more excited about the feature where we can have comments in thread [...]
For last few months, I have been thinking about the kind of content we are creating over the Facebook. The issue is not regarding the content but its usage, specially with Facebook as the owner of the content. The problem started arising with the amount of applications mushrooming for the FB platform. Users are promoted [...]
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