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The meaning of the Facebook like button

far as I can tell, clicking theFacebook "Like" button means "please spam me endlessly"
— Dave Johnson (@snoopdave) February 5, 2012

Dave Johnson in Social Software 11:42AM Feb 11, 2012 Comments [0]
Tags: facebook

OAuth and OpenID: take2

Lot's of activity in the OpenID and OAuth space recently. Both OAuth and OpenID have suffered from bad user experience, bad developer experience and low adoption. Now they're in the process of re-invention and folks from both Google and Facebook are involved. Here's my reading list so far on the topic:

IETF OAuth working group - The OAuth 2.0 Protocol - draft-ietf-oauth-v2-05 is the latest draft of OAuth 2.0, published about two weeks ago.
Eran Hammer-Lahav - Introducing OAuth 2.0 is an excellent overview of what's different and new about OAuth 2.0, listing the six new flows that are supported including a username/password flow.
David Recordon (Facebook) - OpenID Connect: A strawman... is a proposal for "OpenID Connect" a standard way to do what Facebook Connect and Google Friend Connect today, allow users to login sites with either their Facebook, Google or other identity provider credentials.
Chris Messina (Google) - Combining OpenID and OAuth with OpenID Connect covers the thinking behind OpenID Connect and the expansion of the "OpenID brand."
Michael Calore (WebMonkey) - New OpenID Connect Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Webs Woes covers motivations behind OpenID Connect, problems with OAuth and OpenID.
Joseph Holsten - Your New New Web Identity another nice overview of the new OpenID and OAuth ideas, pushes back against dropping/reinventing of OpenID Attribute Exchange.
Tantek Celic - I'm calling bullshit on #OpenID Connect. Still too complex, ... is about one run-on tweet's worth of contructive criticism

Dave Johnson in Social Software 09:48AM May 18, 2010 Comments [0]
Tags: facebook google identity oauth openid

10 Reasons To Delete Your Facebook Account

Dan Yoder's 10 reasons are all good ones, but I'm still on Facebook. My take: if you assume that *everything* you do and share on Facebook is public, and you know how to hide the annoying games, then Facebook ain't so bad.

Dan Yoder: While social networking is a fun new application category enjoying remarkable growth, Facebook isn't the only game in town. I don't like their application nor how they do business and so I've made my choice to use other providers. And so can you.

Social data flow

Every time I find something that I want to share with others online, I have to think about how I want to share and whom I want to share it with. Perhaps I've created too much complexity for myself. This diagram below illustrates the situation. It's my social data flow diagram. [Read More]

Dave Johnson in Social Software 12:52PM Aug 10, 2009 Comments [2]
Tags: blogging facebook friendfeed googlereader socialnetworking twitter

Latest Links: Feb. 16, 2008

More on MySpaceâs Open Development Platform - GigaOM
"made up of three APIs â primarily Open Social and extensions weâve added"
ZDNet.com: Progress report on the OpenSocial Web
Summary of latest OpenSocial news and hackathons from Dan Farber
Facebook to Punish Stupid Applications, Reward Good Ones - ReadWriteWeb
"Metered messaging based on user engagement could save the Facebook Platform from a growing sense of app fatigue"
Roumen's Weblog: Android plug-in for NetBeans
"the screenshots look promising"
Rob Williams' Blog: finally ditched LifeRay
"we have finally ditched Liferay in favor of JBoss Portal. So far so good. It is much more stable. The code base is not a rat's nest of untested Struts goop."
Indoor WiFi Signal Booster by Meraki
"Meraki Mini is a small, easy-to-use wireless mesh repeater."

Dave Johnson in Links 07:48AM Feb 16, 2008 Comments [0]
Tags: facebook java liferay opensocial socialnetworking

Latest links - Oct. 30, 2007

Some reading on Facebook and enterprise social software from my del.icio.us bookmarks collection:

Tim Bray: The Intimate Internet
Bray on Facebook: "Twitter hits that 80/20 point, bringing me that news without all the Facebook bullshit and lame groups and dorky apps and stupid ads and data lock-in. "
Fred Stutzman: The Directionality of Social Network Platforms
Stutzman on Facebook: "the ecosystem needs more than fluff, especially if we're going to start talking about the "social operating system."
Phil Windley: What's wrong with Facebook
Windley on Facebook: "social Webs will require similar attention to the structure that emerges from social activity, not nagging people about it";
Doc Searls: Too much face(book) time
Searls on Facebook: "If you're waiting for me to respond to a poke or an invitation, or a burp or any of that other stuff, don't hold your breath."
Read/Write Web: Big Vendors Scrap for Enterprise 2.0 Supremacy
"The [products] remain complex and broad in scope - which in many respects goes against the grain of simple and easy-to-use web 2.0 products."
Personal InfoCloud: The State of Enterprise Social Software
"Nearly all of the enterprise software product companies are claiming understanding of Web 2.0, but none execute well on it"

Dave Johnson in Links 12:37PM Oct 30, 2007 Comments [0]
Tags: facebook socialsoftware

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