Facebook: Make it easier to tag and find picture of friends.

July 21, 2009 · Filed Under Tech · 3 Comments 

Everyone who uploads a whole album of pictures hates tagging pictures over and over and over again. But a company called Face.com has introduced a new program that uses facial recognition technology to find friends and possibly even tag them for you. This would save you lots of times. As of now it seems like the website is still undergoing testing but people could start trying out the product. According to users in TechCrunch it works perfectly and should be open completely to everyone. It seems like finally someone made a program for Facebook that is actually useful for the users and not just entertaining. Make sure to try out and remember that is still undergoing development so don’t be surprised if something doesn’t work just right.

Yasser

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Facebook Platform Available To Public.

June 2, 2008 · Filed Under Programming, Tech · Comment 

TechCrunch just announced that Facebook has made an interesting move in making there platform open source. It is available for people to download and use under their copyright rules. As far as competing with Open Social then it is a smart move since you never want to stay back in an industry where everything is about the latest technology.

The fb-open-platform.tar.gz archive contains the tools necessary to implement Facebook Open Platform — including the API, FBML (Facebook Markup Language), FBJS (Facebook JavaScript), and FQL (Facebook Query Language) — in your own environment

This might lead to more Social Networks opening up, some public and some private. It is bad for people who have been investing in social networks and now have this new resource available. This also reminds me of the time part of the source code was leaked but not very useful.

Yasser

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Bye Bye MySpace.

January 13, 2008 · Filed Under Ideas & Thoughts, Tech · 3 Comments 

I finally got rid of my MySpace account :) . It was something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time but never did until today. The reasons why I didn’t want to delete it was the fact that it’s a good way to keep in contact with friends who are very far away or you don’t get to see often. It had pictures with comments that are some what memorable but I saved the pictures and the comments… the comments are not that memorable. If you were that important in my life I will remember you. Other than that MySpace is the perfect place to be anti-social. You stop calling and/or texting people and just text them online. You check their pictures to see how are they doing and what are they up to. If you really consider yourself my friend then you would actually look for me and vice-versa. The top friends list is things of high school. I’ve been in so many top friends knowing that the person and I barely communicate or see each other. There is also the fact that MySpace just gives people a bad name and it’s full of spam. But now I’m free from all that hypocrisy. Bye Bye MySpace… Facebook would be next but I need it to survive in college.

Yasser

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Facebook Source Code Leaked ?

August 11, 2007 · Filed Under Security, Tech · 4 Comments 

Major news on Techcrunch, part of the source code of Facebook has been leaked. This either means that Facebook was hacked or is going open source. This is a big deal, this means people might have your password and information. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was done using some API bug since it is one of the most recent updates on Facebook. The source code for the main or home page was posted on a blog called Facebook Secrets. The question is how much longer will it last ?

From reading the source code you can tell that is not very well organized, seems a bit amateur. But then again it was started by college students who were still learning and are still probably learning. Now how secure is Facebook ? How much damage will it bring to the “company” that was just starting to get extremely popular ?

Update: An “official” response has been given at TechCrunch :

Hi Nic-

I wanted to clarify a few things in your story. Some of Facebook’s source code was exposed to a small number of users due to a bug on a single server that was misconfigured and then fixed immediately. It was not a security breach and did not compromise user data in any way. The reprinting of this code violates several laws and we ask that people not distribute it further.

Thanks to you and the TC readers for helping us out on this one.

Brandee Barker
Facebook

Yasser

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