Less Talk, More Do

I am a design engineer at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, working with the Theme Team to address the design concerns of millions of WordPress users.

• January 3rd, 2008

  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: “You agree not to: [...] use automated scripts to collect information from or otherwise interact with the Service or the [...]