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Cool and creepy all at once :-)

why creepy?

Creepy because that's an lot of information facebook lets you look up about people pretty easily using their api. Not necessarily objecting but it is a little creepy when you think about it.

Facebook is just gathering as much information as they can so they can give it to advertisers. I don't quite understand why people have to share some of the stuff they do on facebook and find that far creepier.

Yea its quite creepy especially because they can get all your friends through whatever they are doing.. even with your FB account settings disallowing all websites access

I think people don't notice it until it's all presented back to them in some manner like this.

People might also have an unreasonable expectation that there's some law against misusing their data. Partly, it's because that is true in some areas, e.g. the phone company can't run speech-to-text on all your conversations and sell histograms of your word usage, so people might assume Facebook can't either.

What stops me (as the developer of a similar app) from screen scraping the information I gleam from visitors to my web app?

I'm not sure if that's technically possible... You'd have to get the content that's inside of the iframe, and I think that would break some sort of cross domain rule.

the security rules of browsers don't allow you to access cross domain iframe content, so it isn't an issue

I like that it gives me this reassurance:

> You need to be logged into Facebook to see

> your friends activity

...so that I know I've remembered to stay logged OUT.

Now if only sites iFraming me to FB would post an reminder like:

"Thanks for staying logged in to FB (and providing info about all your activity to our advertisers)."

Site crashed Chrome on Mac twice in a row. First time I've had to Force Quit Chrome.

Destroys Chrome on Linux also.

I didn't have any problem with Chromium 5.0.342.9 on Arch.

Same here

5.0.382.0 (44999) Ubuntu

Couldn't be happier.

Works just fine on Chrome 5.0.375.9 dev on Windows. What versions are people seeing the crashes on?

Crashed for me the first time on Ubuntu Linux Chrome 5.0.342.9. Tried it a second time and it worked okay.

Crashed three times on Mac. Once I had to restart the system.

Oh :(. I was hoping it was a system where you could "like" a URL or something, and after enough "likes", it'd show other stuff that you may like.

Facebook would easily take over commenting if only they added threads, quotes, and other rudimentary commenting features.

I'm a little bit confused, if I opted out of this program, how does it still know who I am when I go to this site?

Each widget is a Facebook iframe. Facebook knows who you are. The site doesn't.

Ah. THanks.

That's a really cool implementation. Nice work!

Nice little hack

I was wondering why most of the page was empty and realized I'm blocking Facebook frames. Am I missing much?

Please do explain: what's your hack to block just FB frames?

I'm using the Firefox add-on LeechBlock to block access to "www.facebook.com/plugins/". (Facebook still works fine. It wasn't immediately apparent that you could use Leechblock to block access to individual folders.)

http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html

AdBlock. Right-click the iframe and block it.

Looks like the NYT has some work to do.

But the site itself is inevitable and cool at the same time.

i was using the wrong nyt url.. works better now

weird... in FF I get all of the presets sites, but in IE I'm only getting CNN. What gives?

reminds me of http://itstrending.com/

@zachallia is awesome.

AllTop For Facebook Likes. Cool

People like me haven't (and won't ever have) a f*cking facebook account.

Do you want a cookie?

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