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Museum of me - A museum made from your own facebook data

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88 pointsThomPete37 comments

A couple of comments. I am not trying to defend anything here. Just really puzzled

1. It basically takes all your data and creates a beautifully rendered museum filled with your stuff.

2. As far as I am aware it's only used for that unless you believe Intel have some other motives. Frankly I have no problem putting my data on there, It's not that secret

3. It needs to be able to share your data on the wall because it gives you the ability to share your museum with your friends.

4. Why is it that people are so against using their facebook data for third party apps while they have no problem being on FaceBook itself. It's not like Facebook don't use your data to sell it to third party.

Just wondering.

Regarding #4: with Facebook, at least I know where my data is going. I put it on Facebook; obviously they'll have access to it. But I don't like the idea of taking that perfectly curated data (for me) and handing it over on a platter to someone else, whose policies I don't know.

What is it about their policies that is unknowable? Every time you install a FB app, you get a link to the app's terms & conditions and privacy policy.

Do they _really_ need the rights to publish on my wall? Why? To advertise their product and go viral? But is the "like" button not enough?

That's too intrusive for me I'm not allowing access to my facebook profile.

It seems that every application nowadays needs the rights to post on your wall. I wish it was possible to negotiate with them. I always end up just not using things instead...

You can go into you application permision options later and remove any non required permissions. Can sometimes stop the application from working but then you can re-evaluate worth. I do this periodically everything I have authorized to use Facebook Connect. Good time to get rid of anything you are no longer using also

Same here. Anyone post any screenshots?

That's pretty much standard now, as facebook has made it impossible to grow a social app otherwise.

They don't abuse it, I think it's because the app is built in flash, they can't use the standard post to wall dialogue, so they've built their own which requires post to wall privileges.

The only thing it posted to my wall was a message I approved and clicked 'send' on

I think Facebook apps must request the permissions necessary for all of its implemented features upfront regardless of wether you choose to use a specific feature. In this case the default is to not post to your wall. You must opt to do so by clicking a link, so to me it is nonintrusive, though I suppose it requires a certain degree of trust.

No, you can ask for more permissions at any time, but this way the app only has to ask once, and most people probably just click "allow" anyway since they want to see the app.

Everyone seems to be commenting about the Facebook app permissions or how beautiful the flash demo is, no one has commented on Intel finally coming into the New Marketing age.

I think its quite nice to see Intel taking new forms of marketing seriously, which is what this app demonstrates.

Or am i being too obvious?

It's a rather odd sort of advertisement though. It has nothing to do with Intel's actual products which, in any case, are hardly ever directly bought by the consumer. It's a brand-building exercise, but not nearly as effective as some they've done in the past, which have focused on Intel's expertise and people. "We're not just banging rocks together here, guys, we know how to build semiconductors!"

I'm guessing that this exists only because some guy at Intel's ad agency thought it would be a cool idea, and Intel was the only client he could think of to pitch it to.

Part of me wonders if this is more of a marketing data acquisition exercise, since the FB App would probably enable them to do that?

That in turn would aid market research.

The FaceBook callback isn't working for me (chrome on ubuntu), so the app's not doing anything :(

This is nice but the truth is that most of the time the video shows the capabilities of the 3D designers at Intel over actually putting images contextually.

I remember there was a game trailer about some doom pending game that took your facebook images and status updates and merged it into the game trailer creating a very personalized experience.

Mind you this was over 2 years ago and sadly I cannot seem to find it. Any help?

EDIT: I think it was http://www.prototype-experience.com/ EDIT 2: Another one: http://www.nationalguard.com/momentsofpride

For those without a Facebook account, can someone do something like a TL;DR?

It creates a nice animation showing your profile pictures, friends, tagged pictures, status updates, videos etc on walls in a museum with people walking around your 'exhibits'. It's a fun timewaster.

I'm wondering if they store all gathered information permanently. They don't give exact information on that matter.

If they do, they would be in violation of Facebook platform policy for app developers. Impossible to know if they do or not though.

this might seem cool to some, but its actually a wake up call personally. this shows how much facebook knows about me, and if people were freaking about about google knowing my search history, facebook has wayyyy more than just search history.

i wonder, if there is a way to actually "delete" history on my account?

Does anyone have a link of this working with someone else's Facebook account? I only have an account for other people to find me, I don't actually use it (and I wouldn't give an app access to all my data even if I did...)

Very impressive but I'm having a little problem at the end of the video. Things were rendered incorrectly. Latest version of Chrome for Mac (stable), probably latest version of Flash. Anyone?

It turns into a mosaic of you using other photos. Worked fine with me (Chrome PC, latest flash)

I get "Page Not Found

We are sorry, there is no Intel.com page matching your request."

Can anyone comment on how it's built? I presume that the images are loaded in place-holders in the video, but I would love to know more about it.

I didn't really use it just because it asks me to allow alot many things which am not comfortable with.

off topic Those who are skeptical like me about over sharing and not allowing apps to get full access should try using this add-on.

http://liisp.uncc.edu/fbs/ / https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fbsecure/

Impressive. Though showing random information does not necessarily create positive experience.

My gut reaction to this is: "But I'm not dead yet." Really? I need a museum of me?

I would say approximately 99% of the people on Twitter and Facebook are so self-involved and full of themselves that they'd wet themselves at the proposition of even a virtual "museum" of themselves. I've said it many times - you can't go wrong catering to people's self-centeredness.

I just get a constant gathering data. Anyone experiencing similar?

Anyone else just get a black page after everything's loaded?

awesome, tried a flash app other than video/slideshare player after a very long time.

any idea which creative agency did it?

I would love to download the video to play on my TV, there should be a download button

Quite impressive.

This is great.

Beautifully made.

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