Gregory writes in to point out that Facebook does a lousy job of monitoring the development of its third-party Platform applications—and in fact many of them are written so badly that they can be easily hacked. The examples he cites, which are listed in the winter issue of the hacker magazine 2600, are all fairly mild stunts like spoofing user IDs, changing the moods of another user, and re-routing gifts, "but this information could be used to mount large scale social engineering attacks if automated and coupled with othe... lire la suite
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Gregory writes in to point out that Facebook does a lousy job of monitoring the development of its third-party Platform applications—and in fact many of them are written so badly that they can be easily hacked. The examples he cites, which are listed in the winter issue of the hacker magazine 2600, are all fairly mild stunts like spoofing user IDs, changing the moods of another user, and re-routing gifts, "but this information could be used to mount large scale social engineering attacks if automated and coupled with other information.
When a Facebook user adds "skiing" to the interests on their profile, it's hard for an advertiser to tell exactly what the user means. A Google search for "Ski rentals in Wolf Creek, Colorado" is much more informative, by contrast. Advertisers know what kind of pitch to deliver, albeit in the form of an AdWords haiku.
The JavaOne developers conference continues at the Moscone center, but if Neil Young is still in town he'd probably ditch shilling for Sun to drop by the SanFran MusicTech Summit, running until 5pm at the Kabuki Hotel. Tonight, the San Francisco Flickr meetup will get together at their usual haunt, the Crossroads Cafe in South Beach.
As I mentioned in my last post, you can think of Zombies* and its Monster app brethren (Vampires, Werewolves and Slayers) as an asychronous massively multiplayer online game. It is essentially a PvP dueling game, not unlike duels. com, but much lighterweight. Many of the core elements of a game are already there;
Un groupe de 150 000 inscrits sur Facebook appelle à la destruction d'Israël. C'est le président du plus grand réseau social sur internet, Arash Derambarsh, qui a révélé l'information. Il a ajouté qu'il lutte contre ce groupe car il entend déployer la tolérance entre les trois religions monothéistes.
Venture capitalist Lee Lorenzen has profited from the hype about Facebook applications. And he'd like to share. In a message he sent to reporters -- the recipients were apparently chosen because they. This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!
My book on “Facebook Application Development” has been announced. I have co-authored this book with Dr. Mark Alexander Bain and it is scheduled to be published by May 2008.
SuperPoke is worth $13 million according to Facebook application tracker Adonomics. The site awards applications like Slide's Top Friends and RockYou's SuperWall values in the tens of millions of dollars — which provides some of the basis for the 9-digit figures that Slide has commanded, and RockYou hopes to get, in venture capitalists' estimates of their worth.
Serious Business founders Siqi Chen and Alex Le created the Facebook application Friends For Sale, which has over 550,000 daily active users. On Friday, the pair announced they'd landed $4 million in a first round of funding from Lightspeed Venture Partners. The investment gave the company a "healthy double-digit" valuation, according to Inside Facebook's Justin Smith.
Hey, Facebookers! Ever wondered which Grand Theft Auto protagonist is most like you? Probably not, but if you're wondering how a lily white nerd like me could find his virtual equivalent to be star of Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, Victor Vance, maybe then you'll try out weekend editor Owen Good's Facebook app "Which Grand Theft Auto Character Are You?
Filed under: Fan stuff Just about everyone on this planet has some level of experience with a social networking site. Whether you approve of them or not, they do allow us to stay connected with one another and have paved the way for this Facebook app. Developed by Sam Lu, this app allows you to keep your Wii number, as well as specific Friend Codes for the games in your library.
Windows Mobile users have had to look on in envy as people poked and drew penises on their friends' walls with dedicated apps for BlackBerry and Palm, wistfully hoping that joy could one day be their own. And now it is! Apparently the first full Facebook app for Windows Mobile, FriendMobilizer will let you do all of the basics like stalk your newly single friend, send messages or ignore requests from people you've never met.
Traffic to RockYou's popular Facebook widget Super Wall declined from 2. million to 600,000 daily users over the last few days, as Facebook blocked the widget from sending users notifications and messages, claiming RockYou had violated Facebook's privacy policies. RockYou CTO Jia Shen told Inside Facebook the allegations and their punitive response are "slightly debatable":
DeveloperAnalytics, a research firm which analyzes Facebook applications, put out an appealing bit of linkbait this morning that purports to show how much money popular applications could earn each month. It calculates the metric based on "hundreds of real CPM, and CPA/Virtual Goods revenue data points collected directly from developers and partners.
It's been a while since I posted a review about a packt published book. I was sent a copy of "Learning Facebook Application Development" by Hasin Hayder and Dr Mark Alexander Bain a while ago. The by-line description of the book is "A step-by-step tutorial for creating custom facebook applications using the Facebook platform and PHP".
No Facebook App For G1, Android Users By Vince Veneziani October 23, 2008 Comments (0) Filed under:
We are just getting it up and running, but I wanted to post this info and give Facebook users a chance to check it out and email me on facebook with ideas and feedback. Check it out. Here is a link Once i get the time, im going to sell off some of my dupes from my Technology Poster Collection.
newVideoPlayer("BBC_Facebook_app. flv", 463, 387,""); In order to demonstrate how easy it would be for an malicious developer to create an application that steals private information from Facebook users, BBC television series Click created such an application themselves. Then they set up some spooky lighting and filmed a dude using two computers.
Inside Facebook has an interesting post about Facebook’s evolving approach to platform management. Justin notes that Slide’s Top Friends app has now been suspended for the platform for 5 days, the most serious punishment for any app so far. He notes that while initially Facebook tried to control app developer behavior with rules, it is now singling out ‘bad actors’ for direct punishment, as much to be a symbol to other developers as to punish the infringing app.
The word “privacy” now appears on Google’s home page, with a link to the company’s privacy policy. With that one word, the Web search giant heads off the growing controversy over whether its previous practice ran afoul of a California law, the California Online Privacy Protection Act of 2003, which requires the operator of a commercial Web site that collects personal information to link to its privacy policy from its home page.