A highly touted aspect of Facebook Connect is the notion of “dynamic privacy“:
As a user moves around the open Web, their privacy settings will follow, ensuring that users’ information and privacy rules are always up-to-date. For example, if a user changes their profile picture, or removes a friend connection, this will be automatically updated in [...]
Category Archives: Digital Identity
Thoughts on dynamic privacy
Jun 11th – 10am
Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh)
Jun 4th – 11pm
And then there were three.
Today, Yahoo! announced the public availability of their own Address Book API. Though Plaxo and LinkedIn have been using this API behind the scenes for a short while, today marks the first time the API is available for anyone who registers for an App ID to make use of the bi-directional [...]
Facebook, the USSR, communism, and train tracks
May 31st – 6pm
Low hills closed in on either side as the train eventually crawled on to high, tabletop grasslands creased with snow. Birds flew at window level. I could see lakes of an unreal cobalt blue to the north. The train pulled into a sprawling rail yard: the Kazakh side of the Kazakhstan-China border.
Workers unhitched the cars, [...]