<![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide - Valleywag Comments]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> "And indeed, that's one reason why I mocked MySpace's move; its users' pseudonymous logins have no particular value as sources of identity"

Wait... you think that FadBook has real identities?

Wow!

Fidel on the Roof

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> But...raincoaster is way more famous than my real name. Maybe I should change it?

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> Synchronizing the identities is a godsend for the people who lie for a living (like PR peeps.) They really need to keep their lies synchronized. Their nightmares are made of forgetting which lies are paid for by whom.

You had a post (with a deck of slides) couple of weeks ago about some VC lady praising OpenID (or some such.) It may be worth re-reading.

I think this concept has a market potential. Rachel Marsden would probably pay for it. Or at least befriend one of their executives.

Spy from the Land of Rainpeople

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> I'm with @scalawag on this.

nirreskeya

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> Im kinda pissed because I was trying to make an app like this except for all the cyber stalking.

CGrant

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> "But do I really want to interconnect all my online identities? That's the premise of the "data portability" movement - that we really want nothing more than to take our friends with us from one website to another."

The premise of data portability is certainly the latter, but not necessarily the former.

Specifically, I want to be _able_ to take the data collected at one place and apply it elsewhere. Not forced to do so, just capable of it.

Of course, Facebook, MySpace and others are going to create something profitable that has little to do with actual data portability. Connect is a fine example. It doesn't let me take Facebook data out of Facebook, it just lets me merge more data into it.

oboreruhito

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> @Fake Jimbo Wales: Fake is as Fake does!

ScalaWag

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> @scalawag: You need to man up. Posting with my real name is yet another indication to the public of my flawless integrity.

Fake Jimbo Wales

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> "Would Valleywag's commenters want to have their real names attached to their accounts?"

HELL NO!

I doubt though that people would use Facebook Connect to blow their cover, unless they are explicit about their desire to be public.

ScalaWag

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> I always blog using my real name. Anyone who doesn't is obviously a fraud. Or one of those fuckers at Wired.

Michael Arrington

]]> <![CDATA[Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide]]> I know exactly how I feel about this. With my tinfoil hat firmly in place, I never forget that Facebook's venture capital comes from radical right-wingers and the CIA.
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bugz321

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