Tommystorm

I received an email from Facebook telling me about the “New and improved” privacy features they were adding, and recently when logging in, was prompted to take action on setting my privacy settings.

Then my friend Sue showed me this article: Privacy Advocates Slam Facebook . I was shocked to read that when your friend chooses to use an application that your friend is giving away to that application’s system all personal information about you that your friend can see. WTF? This isnt a new thing either, Facebook’s application policy has been like this forever.

Ok so i went to revisit my privacy settings today. Imagine the horror when i saw what my current settings are for applications:

So basically, if one of your friends installed one of those sketchy, annoying, add-on apps into their facebook profile, they are giving that same sketchy application (THAT YOU DECIDED ALREADY WAS SKETCHY AND DIDNT WANT FUCKING WITH YOUR PROFILE) full access to your profile.

I don’t know about you, but i don’t delegate decisions like this to my friends. As much as I may love them.

Wow.

MGTwitterEngine is a Objective-C class which lets you integrate Twitter support into your Cocoa application, by making use of the Twitter API. The entire API is covered, and appropriate data is returned as simple native Cocoa objects (NSArrays, NSDictionarys, NSStrings, NSDates and so on), for very easy integration into your own application. MGTwitterEngine is designed for Leopard, but should be just fine on Tiger too.

Prologue: ”

Speaking of Twitter, Prologue looks interesting: it’s a WordPress theme that serves as a standalone Twitter-like server for a small team. This sort of idea — more reliable and private — sounds perfect for distributed teams.

(Via Daring Fireball.)