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Maybe it is just me, but everyone with whom I want to collaborate on a document is not my facebook friend and most probably never will be.
Yet another careless move by the Ballmer administration.
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I'm not an antitrust expert, but I've learned a little bit in the last decade+ when it first really grabbed my attention and I can't think of one example to support your theory that this action by Microsoft is "almost going out of their way to break cross-platform compatibility." I suppose the stretch would be that if Facebook DID indeed become the de facto destination and portal for the overwhelming majority of inte…
Sharepoint and Outlook web access have a significantly degraded user experience on anything but Internet Explorer running on Windows (client.) Full outlook web access isn't even supported. The fact that Microsoft is building their new platform on top of these technologies is troubling.
Please note, when I visited docs.com the app was automatically authorized to have access to my Facebook profile. I had to find the app under my Facebook App settings and remove it manually to deauthorize it. So, Facebook 3rd party partners do not need permission from the user to access the information?
This is Facebook's "instant personalization" feature that just launched. You can disable it in the privacy settings/applications. (it's opt out).
From the blurb that was presented when I tried to opt out: "Please keep in mind that if you opt out, your friends may still share public Facebook information about you to personalize their experience on these partner sites unless you block the application."
Basically there's no way of preventing "select Facebook partners" from having access to my profile.
And I'm not very concerned with privacy in general.
I registered apps.facebook.com/docs when Facebook Apps first came out. Facebook took that name (the Canvas URL) away from me within days, however.
I still have my three letter twitter account name, as well as usernames like "Call" and "Cards" on one of the biggest and most-advertised poker sites, from when they were in beta. I've found it interesting to see which companies would take back their names after realizing they let a good one go, and which would not.