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This always seems like such a good idea to me. Like walking around a busy city bustling with people all around. But then I realize I would never use it. The idea of broadcasting my browsing habits page by page to a third party is creepy beyond belief.
This always seems like such a good idea to me. Like walking around a busy city bustling with people all around. But then I realize I would never use it. The idea of broadcasting my browsing habits page by page to a third party is creepy beyond belief.
That's exactly why SiteChat is anonymous and doesn't save _anything_ on the server! :)
It's like revealing my own secret to someone and telling them not to tell anyone else. I have the most to lose if my secret is revealed. If that isn't enough for me to keep it to myself what is preventing anyone else from revealing it?
Because I don't care to let people follow my browsing behavior site by site, I had better not broadcast it to begin with.
EDIT: I should add, I do have some initial doubts about the anonymity guarantees in this extension. Is all traffic encrypted? Can I be sure nothing is getting unintentionally logged by say a forgotten debug statement or server request logs? I've seen credit card numbers turn up in Apache access logs. Is my IP actually obscured from others or is it merely my name? Even Tor is hesitant to guarantee anonymity.
Is it me or do I see a "add a live chat room to every website!" startup/idea every 6 months, either by apps, HTML framesets, whatever, then followed by press saying it will change the world/internet/whatever, then I never hear about it again. Perhaps nobody actually wants an anonymous chat room on every site :P
_why was one of the first to implement this, in 2005. It wasn't a chat, but a comment system for hackers. The installation instructions were intentionaly elusive: http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.h... The IP adresses point to DNS servers that serve two custom domains: hoodwink.d and ___._ (or you could add them to your host file? not sure...). From there you could browse those sites that had…
FWIW, I remember quite a few startups doing this around 1999. It's a very old idea.
I bet the chat on HN could be interesting.. Not sure about most other sites, though.
If a large % of Facebook users used this, it would quickly become unusable on the site. Any ideas about handling large usage - separate people out into smaller manageable groups by IP/geo/other?
At present, if a large % of my apartment building used this, it would quickly trash my server ;). My intention is to just see how things develop, and if I need to upgrade servers and write some more intelligent routing, then I absolutely will. :)
_why was one of the first to implement this, in 2005. It wasn't a chat, but a comment system for hackers. The installation instructions were intentionaly elusive: http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.h... The IP adresses point to DNS servers that serve two custom domains: hoodwink.d and ___._ (or you could add them to your host file? not sure...). From there you could browse those sites that had…
I also have a theory that many of _why's (earliest) most known projects were created because of Hoodwink'd. He needed a web framework, so he wrote Camping. He wanted to write the HTML in Ruby, so he wrote Markaby. In order to inject the hoodwinks into the web page you need a proxy, so he wrote mouseHole. And he wanted a simple way to search and replace HTML in the proxy, so he wrote Hpricot. It's all one big family…
Is it me or do I see a "add a live chat room to every website!" startup/idea every 6 months, either by apps, HTML framesets, whatever, then followed by press saying it will change the world/internet/whatever, then I never hear about it again. Perhaps nobody actually wants an anonymous chat room on every site :P
It's not exactly a chat, but still very similar. At the time it was seen with excitement, but I'm not sure how many people still use it. I, for example, uninstalled it after a few days.
_why was one of the first to implement this, in 2005. It wasn't a chat, but a comment system for hackers. The installation instructions were intentionaly elusive: http://web.archive.org/web/20051125122020/http://hoodwinkd.h... The IP adresses point to DNS servers that serve two custom domains: hoodwink.d and ___._ (or you could add them to your host file? not sure...). From there you could browse those sites that had…
Hoodwink'd was a fun project. You really felt like you were sneaking around the interwebs, leaving comments and sharing links to a tiny community. I also have a theory that many of _why's (earliest) most known projects were created because of Hoodwink'd. He needed a web framework, so he wrote Camping. He wanted to write the HTML in Ruby, so he wrote Markaby. In order to inject the hoodwinks into the web page you need…
He spent perhaps half an hour, probably more, frantically adding surrealist images to the post. I imagined him excited as a kid, stuck in a creativity rut. Good memories.
Do you know how long it took him to write Camping?
Is it me or do I see a "add a live chat room to every website!" startup/idea every 6 months, either by apps, HTML framesets, whatever, then followed by press saying it will change the world/internet/whatever, then I never hear about it again. Perhaps nobody actually wants an anonymous chat room on every site :P