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Farewell, Facebook

Posted: 05 May 2010 11:40 PM PDT

On Monday, I deleted my Facebook account. A day before I hit the button, I posted a note letting people know where they could find me online if they wanted, and promising more of an explanation: here it is.

I’m a control freak. I run my own web servers, mail server, IRC server, CI server, SVN server, so I have control. If I could afford the colocation, I’d run them on my own hardware. Hell, if I could afford the bandwidth, I’d install a rack in my closet.

But most importantly, I want control of the data. My data.

Facebook recently made two changes to their service that signal a significant and frightening shift in their position on data—specifically who owns and has control over data. They automatically linked interests to public pages, and they introduced “Social Plugins and Instant Personalization.”

Until now, even if I decided to be permissive with my data, I still felt like I was in control of them on Facebook. With the new “connections” feature, as the EFF says, “Facebook users now face a Hobson’s choice between the new Connections and no listed interests at all.” I no longer have the option to share my data with the subset of people I know: either I share them with everyone, in particular advertisers, or I don’t post data at all.

I mention advertisers because they are most likely consumer of the vast quantities of aggregate data Facebook is creating with the new connections feature. Surely no individual will gain anything from knowing that several million people share their interest in Lady Gaga.

And until now, I had the ability to whitelist the applications with which I shared data. I routinely hit a wall as I browsed my friends’ activity, where I would be asked to choose between sharing my data with an application or not seeing its content. More often than not, I chose not to share, and live without the content.

This makes three things about the Instant Personalization onerous: the presumptive sharing with third parties; the shift to a blacklist, where I must specifically opt out; and the willingness to share data even if I have opted out in general.

  • Facebook has decided that Yelp, Microsoft’s Docs.com, and Pandora should have access to my data. I was not part of that decision.
  • If I opt out and turn off Instant Personalization, Facebook will still share my data with these third parties, if my friends choose to use their services. Again, I am not part of that decision.
  • In order to prevent Facebook from sharing my data with them, I have to manually block each application. That’s annoying, but manageable when it’s just three applications, but it’s not scalable.

This is all scary. Facebook could not have made these changes if they honestly believed that I own my data, and they have access with my permission. These changes indicate that Facebook believes they own my data, and will do with them what they please, unless I go out of my way to ask them not to.

I’ve always had mixed feelings about the protest groups that form on Facebook after every major change. Sure, Facebook staff are more likely to notice a Facebook group with 100,000 members than 100,000 individual blog posts, but in our socio-economic system, the real way to signal displeasure to a business is to stop using that business—the online equivalent of “voting with your wallet.”

So, like a few others, I’m taking my data and going home.

I’m willing to share my data with Facebook as long as I ultimately feel in control. It’s possible that I’ll come back to Facebook if they’re willing to not only fix these particular issues but also make it clear that I am ultimately in control of my own data. That doesn’t seem likely.

What do you think about Facebook, these changes, and your data? Let me know in the comments.

Facebook served as an aggregator of my activity online, and now all those aggregated feeds are alone and disparate again. I’m looking at turning jamessocol.com into a lifestream/aggregator to make up for it. I looked at Planet Venus but wasn’t thrilled with it. If you know of any cool software for that, let me know. Otherwise I’ll write something and play with things like Redis, Node.js, Tornado, and/or other neat stuff.

And yes, I know Tornado is from Facebook.

thank you god for showing me this picture

Posted: 03 May 2010 09:37 AM PDT

How many touches can iPad detect?

Posted: 11 May 2010 05:10 AM PDT

There's so much talk about "multitouch" devices, but for most cases no one really knows how many touches multitouch really means. Is it just two, or five, or ten?

Well, this is a quite enlightening video, showing the iPad handling 10 simultaneous touches without any problem. In fact, the iPad can handle up to 11 simultaneous touches!
(I think that should be enough for most Apps you might want to use it for... :)

Notícias do Dia

Posted: 11 May 2010 02:49 AM PDT

Bugs para todos os gostos, do Twitter ao Safari,o que está para vir no Firefox 4 e um novo Motorola Android equilátero.


Twitter a Seguir Tudo e Todos

Ontem foi um dia complicado para o Twitter. Descobriu-se que enviar uma simples mensagem contendo "accept @nickname" fazia com o visado vos passasse a seguir.
Ora... conhecendo-se os milhões de utilizadores deste serviço, e a sua sedenta vontade de ter mais (e importantes) seguidores, foi a possibilidade de "forçarem" celebridades a seguirem-nos, e rapidamente atingiu proporções explosivas...

O Twitter reagiu rapidamente, mostrando o número de seguidores a zero, e resolvendo a questão.

Aquele comando era utilizado como forma de um utilizador com uma conta protegida aceitar um pedido feito por outro utilizador - e só me interrogo como ninguém o descobriu mais cedo...

É a prova de que ninguém esta imune a este tipo de coisas.

E este tipo de controlo "in-flow", onde o canal de comunicação serve também como canal de controlo, fez-me recordar os bons velhos tempos do phreaking telefónico. :)


Bug crítico no Safari

Se utilizam o Safari, eis que um novo bug potencialmente perigoso foi descoberto. O simples fechar de uma janela pop-up poderá dar origem à execução de código malicioso.

Os bugs nos browsers irão tornar-se cada vez mais num ponto crítico que pode comprometer a segurança de todo o sistema. E com a dependência cada vez maior das web apps... este probema promete tornar-se cada vez mais complicado no futuro.

E por falar em browsers...


Firefox 4.0

Embora o Chrome vá atraindo cada vez mais utilizadores, e o Internet Explorer continue a sua progressão descendente que já o fez baixar da barreira dos 60%, o Firefox não está parado e tem planos para o futuro.

O futuro Firefox 4.0 será ainda mais rápido, mais seguro e com mais capacidades, e colocando o utilizador no centro das operações.




Motorola Flipout

Se o que vos atrai é um telemóvel fora do comum, então nada melhor que este Android quadradão que dá pelo nome de Motorola Flipout. Sai nos EUA em Junho... e ainda não há informações sobre a sua eventual disponibilidade na Europa.
O que é certo é que os Android começam já a crescer em volume... tendo já ultrapassado a Apple.

Quantos toques suporta o iPad?

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:29 AM PDT

Com tanta conversa sobre o multitouch, por vezes nem se percebe bem quantos toques isso representa: dois, cinco, dez?

Bem, este vídeo é bastante explícito e demonstra que o iPad não tem qualquer problema em detectar correctamente dez toques em simultâneo. Aliás... vai ainda mais longe e detecta até 11 toques simultâneos!
(A partir daí, não detecta mais... mas parece-me que 11 será suficiente para a maioria das aplicações. :)

calendário

Posted: 11 May 2010 02:14 AM PDT

11 de setembro em nova iorque. 11 de março em madrid. 11 de maio em lisboa.


YouTube - Depressed Cat

Posted: 11 May 2010 03:39 AM PDT

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As AuroraBoredom commented on the site: "I wish me and that cat could hang out. We'd just sit around and discuss our existence in an unknown universe. Afterwards we'd just go skipping stones or something reflective like that. " :-D

Wording Fail

Posted: 11 May 2010 01:00 AM PDT

epic fail photos Wording Fail

A badly worded picture taking advert…

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Television - Recreation - Arts and Entertainment - Programming - Languages

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Um dia na vida de um Mac user

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iPad Knockoff Upgraded with Android 2.1 and Larger Display

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The cable company has an odd description for sesame street

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Resident Evil: Afterlife

Posted: 02 May 2010 02:34 AM PDT
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• Titulo Original: Resident Evil: Afterlife
• Realização: Paul W.S. Anderson

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Acid Picdump (174 pics)

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Novela Apple 4G - Jon Stewart em cena

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A novela do iPhone 4G passou da intervenção da polícia para os aspectos

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