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Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

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post #18

Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.

On that note, why does the Facebook connection ask to access data at anytime and to post on my wall? It seems like all you'd be interested in would be my id and friends ids, which are both public once you have my id.

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

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post #18

Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.

I hear you. Would be tough to maintain "objective" results that way, but can put it in the list of possibile features to add. Note that we don't ask for a lot of permissions at all, the minimum necessary to get your ID. We also let you disconnect with one click in your account section. We absolutely hate shady app access and did everything possible to tread lightly, only purpose was to show you the data and make something fun.

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

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post #21
post #18

Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.

On that note, why does the Facebook connection ask to access data at anytime and to post on my wall? It seems like all you'd be interested in would be my id and friends ids, which are both public once you have my id.

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Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

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post #21
post #18

Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.

On that note, why does the Facebook connection ask to access data at anytime and to post on my wall? It seems like all you'd be interested in would be my id and friends ids, which are both public once you have my id.

Fair question. The data at anytime is to keep your friends list up to date. The post on your wall is now required to offer the Facebook share button (bogus IMHO). However, you can remove both of those permissions in Facebook>Account Settings>Apps>Early Nerd.

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

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post #21
post #18

Could you set it up so we can input our own Facebook ID instead of having to grant your app access? I personally have the entire app platform disabled on my account, and do not intend to turn it back on.

On that note, why does the Facebook connection ask to access data at anytime and to post on my wall? It seems like all you'd be interested in would be my id and friends ids, which are both public once you have my id.

Thanks for the feedback. The only reason it's used, so we can refresh your connections and thus your score if someone else comes back to your page. Maybe not a critical feature...

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

#26
post #19

Authorize Early Nerd to use your account? This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. No thanks.

Thanks for letting us know this is an issue. We wish the permission settings were more granular in the Twitter API, so we could turn most of this off..

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

#27
Good exercise.

Note to self: they got the data; they didn't add much value; they presented the data with fairly clean design; it could be argued that this is a data mining web app but there is a flaw if the plan is to produce income by engaging the user.

Note to feldmanr: http://www.programmableweb.com/ says that there is 4535 APIs. It's not even possible to read the documentation for a subset of them to figure out whether you can get an incremental user ID or not. But even if you did and even if you used some of them you are just producing a fun fact. Hardly a reason to come back for more. Yet, the exercise is a worth while; one gains knowledge about heterogeneous nature of web APIs - a skill necessary to build profitable data mining web apps. Please, do come back with an idea that can clearly retain your users beyond single visit.

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

#29
post #19

Authorize Early Nerd to use your account? This application will be able to: Read Tweets from your timeline. See who you follow, and follow new people. Update your profile. Post Tweets for you. No thanks.

AFAIK that's all pretty standard stuff. What are you afraid of?

Re: Show HN: Early Adopter cred from your Twitter & Facebook IDs

#30
post #27

Good exercise. Note to self: they got the data; they didn't add much value; they presented the data with fairly clean design; it could be argued that this is a data mining web app but there is a flaw if the plan is to produce income by engaging the user. Note to feldmanr: http://www.programmableweb.com/ says that there is 4535 APIs. It's not even possible to read the documentation for a subset of them to figure out w…

Thanks! Our intention wasn't to build a sticky web service, but a simple hack that took a few days. We thought it was interesting data to see about ourselves and thought we'd share it with the community. Might it turn into something more? Perhaps, but this is just a simple proof of concept. We know (and like) Programmable Web, but as you said, no simple way to filter about user ID info.

We enjoy simple hacks that people produce that give me a few minutes of fun or some interesting piece of info. We try not to take ourselves too seriously all the time.

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