Hendrickson takes us through a detailed analysis of why it never took off and what he learned. He is also a former TechCrunch writer.
via The Uphill Battle Of Social Event Sharing: A Post-Mortem for Plancast | TechCrunch.
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Building The Implicit Social Graph
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Google Plus is Google’s latest attempt at building an explicit social graph that they control, but Google has been building out an implicit social graph for quite some time …
This all changes with Google Plus. One of the limitations of building an implicit social graph is that you don’t have the data to test against to confirm the predictions and relationships that graph discovers. It still has to depend on the data made public, but is limited by relationships that are held private (aka Facebook). Google Plus, among other things, creates a massive set of explicit social graph data, which can be used for machine learning and accuracy checking.
When “clever” goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices
When “clever” goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices
Yuck …
via When “clever” goes wrong: how Etsy overcame poor architectural choices.
Facebook caught exposing millions of user credentials
Facebook has leaked access to millions of users’ photographs, profiles and other personal information because of a years-old bug that overrides individual privacy settings, researchers from Symantec said.
via Facebook caught exposing millions of user credentials • The Register.
Legacy token leakage.
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