Facebook Badges and Google Talk
August 16, 2006
We now have… *drum roll*…Facebook Badges! According to the Facebook FAQ, “A badge is a customizable clip of your Facebook profile that you can share on other web sites. You can choose what information (e.g. picture, name, birthday, mobile number etc) to show on your badge. Put one on a site and it will be automatically updated each time you update your Facebook profile. The best part is that the badge will be visible to anyone you want, even non-Facebook users! These are great for blogs, personal web pages, as a forum signature, or anywhere else you can think to post it.”
Hooray, yet another way to totally destroy the remaining shreds of privacy on the web. You can share your photo, full name, networks (including school and location), personal email, screenname, birthday, cell, websites, status updates, recent pictures, and upcoming events, visible to anyone in the world that cares to see. Maybe I’ll put in a feature request for a Social Security Number field.
In other news, Google has just added some fun toys to Google Talk, like file transfer, voicemail, and what music you’re listening to. Now I must run off to play with the new shininess.
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Mission Mobilizer | August 17, 2006 at 8:50 am
Okay, so if you are off playing with the new shininess, where are you??? I want to send you a file now that I can. I just have to decide which file. By the way, if you are listening using Pandora, the music thing doesn’t work on Gtalk.
By the way, my social is 000-00-0001. Can you post that somewhere for me so that everyone knows?
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Chris J. Davis | August 17, 2006 at 12:57 pm
Hmm., yes this is indeed troubling. Hopefully the control you have over the display will become more and more granular.
I can see this being usefull in a business sense. Who you are connected to and in what groups you operate could be the deciding factor for some would be clients.