Archive for January 14th, 2009
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009
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Niall Kennedy's writeup of the username-password antipattern legal complaint by Facebook against Power.com
"I hope other sites violated by Power.com such as Google, Microsoft, MySpace, and Hi5 put a stop to websites like Power harvesting user data instead of using permitted access methods such as OAuth"
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the ICS equivalent of the RSS/Atom Feed Validator
(Useful for debugging why an ical event can't be added to your calendar)
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Flash cookies are the single most important privacy risk when it comes to browsers.
Users are unaware of them, there is no easy way to delete them, and a lot more data can be stored client side than with traditional browser cookies.
This 2005 document explains how you can delete them
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"number of converters to and from different Blog services. The code is written in Python with scripts to execute the conversions either on the command-line, through a Windows batch script, or hosted on Google App Engine"
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