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Wikia Search violates Facebook’s TOS
Today is not going well for Wikia Search. After launching to less-than-stellar reviews, it has been discovered that they are violating Facebook's TOS with their "Invite from Social Networks" feature....
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Mahalo Share Goes to 11
One of the latest things I've been working on at Mahalo is Mahalo Share. It's a utility that automatically posts links that you want to share to 11 different services: del.icio.us, Facebook, Twitter,...
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Takedown’d
I received this lovely letter from Facebook's lawyers earlier today. The key points are transcribed below: "Dear Mr. Finke: I am writing you concerning the Firefox extensions you posted at:...
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Facebook Lock-in
Gervase Markham has an insightful post about Facebook's lock-in policy with regards to e-mail. He has a way of writing about the situation that clearly explains the points I'd like to make but can...
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Want to make some money?
Can you write Facebook or iPhone Apps? Do you like money? If so, have I got a deal for you: We're looking for some help building out our iPhone and Facebook applications for Mahalo Answers. If you know...
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My BFF Selena Gomez
For the past couple of weeks, I've been getting occasional IMs and e-mails from what I can only assume are tween-age girls, asking if I work for Facebook. ("I need to talk to Facebook Team about...
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Export your Facebook posts to WordPress
I'm a big proponent of owning the data that you create. I use WordPress (of course) wherever I blog, and I use the Keyring Social Importers plugin to make backup copies of my Twitter updates and...
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Keyring River: A new WordPress theme to complement Keyring Social Importers
It’s no secret that I use Keyring and Keyring Social Importers to import my activity on third-party services into a WordPress blog. All of my Facebook posts and photos, Twitter updates, foursquare...
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Convert Facebook e-mail images to actual e-mail links
The massively popular social network Facebook uses images to display the e-mail addresses of your friends, making it impossible to copy the e-mail address or click on it to send e-mails to your...
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Facebook is not worth 15 billion dollars
($240,000,000 / (0.016 + x)) != $15,000,000,000 Attention world: Microsoft did not pay $240 million simply for a 1.6% stake in Facebook. They paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook and the...
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Facebook Image-to-Email Working Again
I’ve just updated the Facebook Image-to-Email Firefox extension to be compatible with Facebook’s new image generation algorithm. (Facebook Image-to-Email converts e-mail addresses in images to plain...
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Facebook Image-to-Email: Broken Again
I am aware that the Facebook Image-to-Email Firefox extension is (once again) broken, and given that version 1.1 installed on Firefox 2.0.0.8 was working, and now version 1.1 installed on Firefox...
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Facebook Image-to-Email: Back from the grave
A while back I mentioned that Facebook Image-to-Email (a Firefox extension that converts Facebook’s e-mail address images to plain-text) was broken after some unknown change was made by Facebook. I am...
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Proposal for (legally) acquiring data from Facebook
There’s a big debate going on today about Robert Scoble getting booted from Facebook for harvesting data about his friends with a bot. The relevant portion of the Facebook TOS that he violated is this:...
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Scoble stole my data…
Had a great idea while watching ScobleShow. 5,000 of Scoble’s friends, at $10 a pop means $50,000 in revenue for me. Submit your orders in the comment section below.
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Take your Facebook data with you
Earlier today, I mentioned that it wouldn’t be out of the question to write a Firefox extension that would grab profile data about your Facebook friends as you view their profiles so that you could...
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Facebook Scavenger: Now with vCard support
I’ve updated Facebook Scavenger (a Firefox extension that saves a backup your Facebook friends’ profile data) to add vCard export support. You can download this new version (1.1) from the Facebok...
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In which I avoid being sued
At the request of (and under the threats of legal action from) Facebook, I’ve taken down the Facebook Image-to-Email and Facebook Scavenger Firefox extensions. Facebook claims that any method of...
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