Posts about scoble
Two videos for a slow Sunday afternoon
You read TechMeme, right? For those who don't, it's a completely automated site that pulls, organizes and displays the hottest news from blogs at any given moment. It changes continuously, 24/7 in response the the "buzziest" news of the second. Amit Pagarwal at Digital Inspiration made a pretty cool 50 hour time lapsed visualization (down to 50 seconds) of the evolution of the TechMeme home page: And if you're familiar with the Scoble/Facebook thing (as well as that stupid video made about Britney by Chris Cocker), this might be a little entertaining:
Posted on: 2008 January 06
Filed under: Blogging, Fun, Technology
Your social graph: do you own the data?
A big stupid brou-ha-ha erupted last night when blogged Robert Scoble ran a script written by Plaxo against his 5,000 Facebook friends' information and got banned in short order. Scoble initially posted that Facebook banned his account and only later admitted he'd been screen scraping, or brute-force removing information from Facebook using an unnamed tool by a 3rd party (he was under NDA). Scoble was miffed that Facebook would ban him for trying to help "free" his "own social data" that "he owns." This isn't a new movement, people have been pressuring Facebook for a while now to let them ...
Posted on: 2008 January 03
Filed under: Blogging, Internet
facebook, karaswisher, nickcarr, plaxo, portability, privacy, scoble, scrape, socialgraph
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