OK, so I’ve been released from my NDA. I was alpha testing an upcoming feature of Plaxo Pulse — this feature has not yet been released and now that my account has gotten shut down it’s not clear whether it will be released. It is a Facebook importer that works just like any other address book importer.
What does it collect?
Names and email address and birthday.
Why those? Because it’s trying to connect Facebook names with names in its database.
For instance, it learned that of the 5,000 people in my Facebook account about 1,800 were already on Plaxo.
It did NOT look at anything else. Just this stuff, no social graph data. No personal information.
Why do this?
I wanted to get all my contacts into my Microsoft Outlook address book and hook them up with the Plaxo system, which 1,800 of my friends are already on.
It’s ironic that you can import your Gmail address book into Facebook but you can’t export back out.
[...] ein Facebook-Account angelegt hat, und dorthin seine GMail-Kontakte importiert hat, wollte seine Facebook-Kontakte in ein anderes Netzwerk [...]
[...] others, they’ll be joining Robert Scoble, who recently caused controversy when he tried to run a tool produced by Plaxo to collect data from his friends’ Facebook profiles and got banned in the [...]
[...] is an EU lawbreaker, blogger says when Robert used a tool to record information that his contacts had shared with [...]
[...] Facebook to gather some data about his friends (If you want to read his side of the story click here.) – and considering some of the ramifications of the debate surrounding [...]
[...] blog storm centered around Robert Scoble. He temporarily lost his Facebook account because he got caught trying to scrape what he erroneously believed was “his” data into Plaxo using a script that violated Facebook’s terms of [...]
[...] Scoble is a very nice man who was very mistaken when he scraped all of his friends’ data off of Facebook. His excuse is that we all agreed to him having our data when we made friends [...]
[...] what about that data my friends have shared with me: content, details, contacts…some don’t like the [...]
[...] dei profili pubblici. L’account di Robert Scoble è stato sospeso mentre stava testando la prossima versione di Plaxo Pulse. Scoble stava copiando informazioni relative ai suoi contatti (nome, indirizzo, data di nascita) [...]
[...] Scoble gets kicked off Facebook for running a script – uses a script – then gets back in. Warner Bros.’ Music Available DRM-free from Amazon MP3 Sony BMG music to [...]
[...] thought to end the article. Does an individual define the market or an individual’s relationships? If it’s the latter, Facebook may be under valued and the usability race has [...]
[...] thought to end the article. Does an individual define the market or an individual’s relationships? If it’s the latter, Facebook may be under valued and the usability race has [...]
[...] the former Microsoft evangelist blogger for a terms-of-service violation. He used a testing Plaxo tool to mine, or "scrape," information from about 5,000 of his [...]
[...] the former Microsoft evangelist blogger for a terms-of-service violation. He used a testing Plaxo tool to mine, or "scrape," information from about 5,000 of his [...]
If it’s on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to–if you show it to them.
Scoble, I think this is fantastic. Not so much that the data were sent to such-and-such corp, but that (1) you were able to automate it and (2) that it woke people up to data security who are outside of IT by a long shot. It’s precisely this kind of destruction of naiivete that is going to help push end users to learn what they’re dealing with and how to protect themselves if they are uncomfortable with spreading their personal data all over.
If it’s on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to–if you show it to them.
Scoble, I think this is fantastic. Not so much that the data were sent to such-and-such corp, but that (1) you were able to automate it and (2) that it woke people up to data security who are outside of IT by a long shot. It’s precisely this kind of destruction of naiivete that is going to help push end users to learn what they’re dealing with and how to protect themselves if they are uncomfortable with spreading their personal data all over.
[...] face of free software. Plaxo had to scrap Facebook contact details from analysing images, which is the reason why Robert Scoble got bounced from the network. The company takes a Hotel California approach to APIs (your data can enter, but [...]
[...] Pulse – Most famous for helping to get Robert Scoble temporarily banned from Facebook, Plaxo’s Pulse product lets you aggregate activity from a wide variety of third [...]
[...] Pulse – Most famous for helping to get Robert Scoble temporarily banned from Facebook, Plaxo’s Pulse product lets you aggregate activity from a wide variety of third party [...]
[...] Pulse – Most famous for helping to get Robert Scoble temporarily banned from Facebook, Plaxo’s Pulse product lets you aggregate activity from a wide variety of third party [...]
[...] Pulse – Most famous for helping to get Robert Scoble temporarily banned from Facebook, Plaxo’s Pulse product lets you aggregate activity from a wide variety of third party [...]
[...] thought to end the article. Does an individual define the market or an individual’s relationships? If it’s the latter, Facebook may be under valued and the usability race has [...]
Downloading copies of pieces of 4,999 records is a different context than handwriting those same pieces of 4,999 records. The download is most likely not for the same purpose as the handwriting.
Also, I don’t think anyone really has 4,999 friends. I seriously doubt that anyone has more than 8 really close friends with whom they would feel totally comfortable sharing very personal feelings.
Downloading copies of pieces of 4,999 records is a different context than handwriting those same pieces of 4,999 records. The download is most likely not for the same purpose as the handwriting.
Also, I don’t think anyone really has 4,999 friends. I seriously doubt that anyone has more than 8 really close friends with whom they would feel totally comfortable sharing very personal feelings.
So do you recommend Plaxo or no? I want something that is robust, and easy to operate.
So do you recommend Plaxo or no? I want something that is robust, and easy to operate.
[...] January 3: “Scoblegate” became a lightening rod for debate over who own your friends list – January 8: Google, Facebook, [...]
I noticed the same problem with the gmail address book compatibility issue.
I noticed the same problem with the gmail address book compatibility issue.
Do a lot of people really get banned? How much hell do you have to cause before that happens? haha
Do a lot of people really get banned? How much hell do you have to cause before that happens? haha
Yeah, I don’t know if a lot of people do get banned!? Who knows?
Yeah, I don’t know if a lot of people do get banned!? Who knows?
If it’s on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to–if you show it to them…
If it’s on the web, you can only get pissy with yourself for not having the foresight to not put it out there. Any one of your FB friends could expose any bit of data about you they care to–if you show it to them…
[...] don’t have any desire to have their profile data sucked or scraped up by sites like Spoke (or people) or to have them searchable by sites like YoName and Wink. At some level people do this for the [...]
[...] and screen-scraped, the e-mail addresses are displayed as images. And we all remember when Robert Scoble tried to download all of his friends’ contact info using such an [...]
[...] of you that are still in the dark, here’s the story in short: prominent blogger Robert Scoble used a script from Plaxo to scrape the names, birth dates, and email addresses of his Facebook contacts so that he could [...]
It’s all good, I won’t turn you in, or anything. Even if I don’t get cut in. All you have is my honor. Although I do like the girl. You let her know that I know and to talk if theres any jibber jabber to be done.
It’s all good, I won’t turn you in, or anything. Even if I don’t get cut in. All you have is my honor. Although I do like the girl. You let her know that I know and to talk if theres any jibber jabber to be done.
Tereasa Valdez Klein should not use the word retarded.
That would is both very derogatory and both very offensive to people who are mentally challenged.
I don’t think that she knows what that word means or the full ramiforcations of it.
I don’t think that Ms.Klein has been exposed to be who are mentally challenged.
If she was she wouldn’t be making the disparaging remarks that she did.
Ms.Klein needs to show some empathy towards people who are relatively different than what she is.
Tereasa Valdez Klein should not use the word retarded.
That would is both very derogatory and both very offensive to people who are mentally challenged.
I don’t think that she knows what that word means or the full ramiforcations of it.
I don’t think that Ms.Klein has been exposed to be who are mentally challenged.
If she was she wouldn’t be making the disparaging remarks that she did.
Ms.Klein needs to show some empathy towards people who are relatively different than what she is.
Thanks. That would be a great feature for Plaxo! I hope Facebook sees the light.
Yeah, I don't know if a lot of people do get banned!? Who knows?
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