FREE Caribean Yellow Pages - Guadeloupe. PDF Geni. Apophenia: Putting Privacy Settings in the Context of Use (in Fa. A few days ago, Gilad’s eyes opened wide and he called me over to look at his computer. He was on Facebook and he had just discovered a privacy loophole. He had maximized his newsfeed to get as many photo-related bits as possible. As a result, he was regularly informed when his Friends commented on other people’s photos, including photos of people with whom he was not Friends or in the same network as. This is all fine and well. Yet, he found that he could click on those photos and, from there, see the entire photo albums of Friends-of-Friends.
Once one of his Friends was tagged in one of those albums, he could see the whole album, even if he couldn’t see the whole profile of the person who owned the album. There are multiple explanations for what is happening. Facebook’s privacy settings are the most flexible and the most confusing privacy settings in the industry. Why are privacy settings still an abstract process removed from the context of the content itself? (en francais) StumbleUpon - Now Without a Browser Plugin - Mashable.
Facebook Applications Now Portable to Friendster’s Dev. Friendster might not be the first name in social networking in the US, but in Asia it’s the dominant player in many countries, with a userbase totaling more than 60 million across the continent. Today, the company is announcing that Facebook applications can now be easily ported into Friendster – who already has its own developer platform and also supports OpenSocial. This could be attractive to Facebook developers for a number of reasons, especially considering the negative impact that the site’s recent re-design is having on usage for some applications.
For the most part, Friendster’s audience has little overlap with that of Facebook – only 22% according to the companies – meaning there are about 45 million potential new users for developers to target. Further, for the moment the Friendster developer community is far less competitive than that of Facebook – its directory features only about 600 applications as opposed to the tens of thousands that have already been built for Facebook. Hey, Facebook, Isn't It Time To Fix Some Bugs? - Mashable. Sony: Don't turn on your PS3 until PSN bug is fixed.