Comments on: First Blogger Dinner, Facebook apps and the likelihood I’ll keep the blog up to date… http://olivertower.com/2007/07/27/first-blogger-dinner-facebook-apps-and-the-likelihood-ill-keep-the-blog-up-to-date/ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 20:32:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jason Alba http://olivertower.com/2007/07/27/first-blogger-dinner-facebook-apps-and-the-likelihood-ill-keep-the-blog-up-to-date/#comment-3 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 23:59:28 +0000 http://olivertower.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/first-blogger-dinner-facebook-apps-and-the-likelihood-ill-keep-the-blog-up-to-date/#comment-3 Great disclosure at the end ;) And now you can come back to the next dinner!

Jason Alba
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]]> By: Matthew Reinbold http://olivertower.com/2007/07/27/first-blogger-dinner-facebook-apps-and-the-likelihood-ill-keep-the-blog-up-to-date/#comment-2 Fri, 27 Jul 2007 15:19:58 +0000 http://olivertower.wordpress.com/2007/07/27/first-blogger-dinner-facebook-apps-and-the-likelihood-ill-keep-the-blog-up-to-date/#comment-2 Nice site and glad to see that death threats are an effective motivator. ;) But really, how chilling can ominous fist shaking from a UT blogger be? What are they going to do, green jello your house?

As far as facebook it was pretty exciting to see the tutorial that Jesse (http://jessestay.com/) gave. However, I think its important to remember that – unlike the Internet – Facebook is a private company with its own interests to protect. This cropped up in a conversation later in the evening. A friend had created a killer facebook app that would have a ton of value – and also violated the Facebook terms of service. He wasn’t doing anything malevolent; he was simply trying to pipe data from Facebook (a closed system) to something open and translatable. This is against Facebooks terms of service because think of how much leverage Facebook looses if the carefully compiled information people put into their profiles is suddenly easy to move elsewhere. Its an incredibly short-sighted (and last millennium) way of doing business but the ‘circle-the-wagons’ mentality does still exist.

Facebook is very cool but until they give clearance to let the data in their system go where the user wants it (even if that’s to a different system) I reserve the title of ‘Greatest Thing Since Pop Tarts’ for something else.

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