Yet another aggressive Facebook app: Facebook for Google+™ - Chrome Web Store

Facebook for Google+™ - Chrome Web Store

Yet another aggressive Facebook app – why does it want to post to my Facebook Wall?

SocialAnywhere is requesting permission to do the following:

• Access my basic information
  Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends and any other information I've shared with everyone.

• Post to my Wall
  SocialAnywhere may post status messages, notes, photos and videos to my Wall

• Access posts in my News Feed
• Access my data any time
  SocialAnywhere may access my data when I'm not using the application

Facebook Chat – connect your client

Facebook Chat

Facebook chat, Jabber, XMPP

Integrating with Facebook Chat - Facebook developers

I dislike Facebook apps pulling list of friends

I never let then do that, and I hope you (as my Facebook friend) don't either – if I notice you let them throw  their propaganda at me, I will have to remove you as my Facebook friend.
Why isn't there a Facebook flag to generally opt out of that kind of thing? I guess that's against there business model. How bad.

my blogs, Facebook, Twitter, "NetworkedBlogs"

Most things I write and that I want to share, I usually write and publish on one of my blogs.
But I like to see them on my Facebook wall, in my Twitter stream, and also in my Buzz stream as well.

NetworkedBlogs.com offer a Facebook application, that picks up the (new) articles on my blogs and creates resp. entries on my Facebook wall and also on my Twitter stream.

Now the tweets, they generate also appear on my Facebook wall. That is a little annyoing. And I don't know, how to stop this. Is it NetworkedBlogs.com, that pulls my Twitter stream onto my Facebook wall, is it Facebook itself. For sure, it's me, who configured that somewhere at some stage in the past. But as I said: I don't know, how to stop this.

It's pretty similar on my Buzz stream, but that's not directly because of NetworkedBlogs.com. I want to have my blogs articles included there and also my tweets. But then most tweets got created from blog articles. It's rather rare, that I write a tweet manually. I got my Buzz stream to include my blogs and also my Twitter stream. That is easy to handle.

Sometimes I remove duplicate Facebook wall and Buzz entries, but not very often.

I am a software developer, that's true, but so far I have been a little lazy, and I did not create an application myself, that would smartly derive Facebook wall and Buzz entries and also tweets, avoiding redundancy. I am sure my readers get pretty annoyed by that redundancy. It's simply, that I have no time to fight this redundancy. This is rather sad.

The Social Network (2010) - IMDb

The Social Network (2010) - IMDb That's the movie on Mark Zuckerberg, the "inventor" and creator of Facebook.

From Trivia:

• The opening breakup scene with Jesse Eisenberg and Rooney Mara ran eight script pages and took 99 takes. (link)
• "Who was the movie star?" – "Does it matter?" – the movie star was, in fact, Natalie Portman (Born: Natalie Hershlag), who was enrolled at Harvard from 1999 to 2003 and helped screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by providing him insider information about goings-on at Harvard at the time Facebook first appeared there.
• The Winklevoss twins were both played by actor Armie Hammer. However, Ralph Lauren model Josh Pence played one of them strictly from the neck down. His face was digitally replaced with Hammer's to make them appear identical, as the two men are unrelated and look nothing alike. The two spent 10 months in twin boot camp to match one another's subtle movements and rapport.

From Quotes:

• "As if every thought that tumbles through your head was so clever it would be a crime for it not to be shared."
• "You're not an asshole, Mark. You're just trying so hard to be one."

Update after watching the movie:

I think the Winklevoss twins should not have gotten any money. My impression is, that they just discussed a business idea with Zuckerberg, and discussing such an idea a without non-disclosure agreement isn't really worth anything. They should not have gotten money or shares from Zuckerberg or Facebook, that was wrong.

I think, it's very sad, how the friendship between Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin evolved, but then that's how it goes with "business partnerships". You have to make sure to stay in very, very close contact with your partners, otherwise you run the risk to get catapulted out of the game. Of course it's esp. very sad to see, that "Zuckerberg dropped Saverin's 30% ownership share of Facebook down to 0.03%" (from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Saverin#Personal_life_and_Facebook).

Justin Timberlake … plays Napster creator Shawn Fanning as a slightly delusional, paranoid entrepreneur (from technofunkie's review (on IMDb) on this movie).

I am very, very grateful to my supporter friend, who allowed me to watch this movie.

"Facebook killer" Diaspora source code released - The H Open Source: News and Features

"Facebook killer" Diaspora source code released - The H Open Source: News and Features

The Pinging Makes My Ears Bleed: Apple Succumbs to Synergy · trenchant.org daily · September 7, 2010

The Pinging Makes My Ears Bleed: Apple Succumbs to Synergy · trenchant.org daily · September 7, 2010

Quotations from the text:

• (on Facebook) "biggest asshole tech company run by a Harvard drop-out" (ROTFL)

Facebook APIs are Open – Except if your too big (e.g. for Apple Ping). « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog

Facebook APIs are Open – Except if your too big. « Kevin Burton’s NEW FeedBlog

WAR! It’s Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook

WAR! It’s Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook

3rd party Facebook applications – use with caution!

Right now there was yet another Internet service with a big Facebook button…
When you press this button, and they ask you in a very tiny print, whether you allow them to pull your friendlist on Facebook, then press Stop without further hesitating! They are simply bad. You don't want get your friends dragged into your experiments, right? Sometimes they also say: "Let's find you some friends?" That's about the same. Don't! Just don't!

Facebook does (not) import my Google Buzz public feed

First it didn't, what surprise ;-)

Update / 2010-06-23 17:00:
Works now.

I actually first tried that through "Import an External Blog", and you can only name there a single one. But they seem to reject that because of some details in the XML, that they don't like ;-)
But you can always use NetworkedBlogs for more letting other streams like blogs and whatever RSS feeds flow into "your" Facebook (wall).

my own "tiny" Facebook security leak

I started using a Facebook "Profile Badge" here on this blog quite a while ago. Today I noticed, that all my Facebook status updates got shown here on that Profile Badge in the right column of this blog. Believe me: I seriously hurried removing that field "Status updates" from my Facebook Profile Badge.

To be very honest with you: no, this security leak was a giant one, not a tiny one.

phonebook on Facebook

Did you know, you have a phonebook on Facebook? Now you do. But nowadays more and more Facebook friends remove their phone numbers from their Facebook profile.

Facebook forced me into a dialog

Today Facebook forced me into a dialog named "Confirm the Pages that will be on your Profile", and that was rather impressive: they showed me lots of pictures standing for pages, that they think, I would like. I liked to get out of that, but they said, that would leave my profile empty. That's rather violent, I think.

the pidgin Facebook plugin

The pidgin Facebook plugin does not work properly so far. A single Facebook user actually talks to me with yet another id, every single time he sends me a message. This does not look tested well enough.
I am using pidgin 2.6.2 (libpurple 2.6.2) from fink on Mac OS X, Snow Leopard.

Update / 2010-12-28:
For quite a while Facebook chat has now been reachable through Jabber / XMPP.