Category: Facebook
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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 checkins, and Reddit comments and submissions are archived in a single location; this makes it simple to see a snapshot of my online…
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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 Foursquare checkins. And as of today, I am also syncing my Facebook updates back to a private WordPress blog…
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My BFF Selena Gomez
Straight up to my phone
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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 of any great developers who have done a really solid application for either platform (or who are…
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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 never form into coherent paragraphs.
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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: www.chrisfinke.com/addons/facebook-image-to-email and www.chrisfinke.com/addons/facebook-scavenger These plug-ins are deeply concerning to Facebook because, among other things, they violate Facebook’s trademark rights, its Terms of Service, the security…
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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, Jaiku, your Tumblr blog, Ma.gnolia, Faves, Pownce, Mahalo, StumbleUpon, and/or Google Bookmarks. All of this cross-posting is done behind the scenes using…
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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. Here’s how the feature works: you select “Facebook” from the list of networks and enter your username and password. Wikia Search then goes off and…
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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 automating against their site is a TOS violation, although if that were true, simply using a Web browser to convert their raw HTML code into…
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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 Scavenger homepage, and you might want to hurry. A little birdie told me that this handy tool might not be available for too much…
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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 take that data to another service. Given that, allow me to introduce Facebook Scavenger. It’s a Firefox extension that saves…
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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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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…
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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 happy to announce that it is working again, after I re-tooled it with a different method for accessing the image data of those e-mail…
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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 2.0.0.8 is not working, it has to be due to a change that Facebook made. The problem is that I can’t discern any relevant…
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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 text.) This new version should be a little more robust; if it can’t convert the image to text, it appends a small question mark after the image, rather than…
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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 privilege of being Facebook’s only ad supplier for visitors from outside the United States. So unless you’re valuing that privilege at…
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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 friends, thus making Facebook’s own proprietary in-site messaging system more attractive to its users. Yesterday, Gervase Markham posited that it should be…