Facebook app privacy: It’s complicated
Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I didn’t like that I couldn’t alter the Facebook Connect privacy settings for updates from Foursquare, an iPhone app that shares my location through a GPS-enabled city directory. It didn’t make sense to me that Facebook Connect information was automatically visible to anyone who had access [...]
LinkedIn’s platform loosens up
Professional networking site LinkedIn’s platform, previously a closed offering for select partners, has opened up to developers at large, according to an announcement Monday on the company blog. Well, sort of. Building an embeddable widget on LinkedIn, unlike Facebook’s, still requires a stringent application process. But LinkedIn’s own code has now been opened up so [...]
Brizzly opens up…and translates
Web-based Twitter client Brizzly made a dual announcement Friday: first, it’s opened up into a full public beta mode (previously, an invite code was required); and second, it can now translate tweets into your default language on the site. To translate a tweet in Brizzly–which already expands links, videos, and photos posted to Twitter, creating [...]