This is just a trailer, but it still looks really good. And it’s from David Fincher, who directed Fight Club and The Game.
Posts Tagged: Facebook
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May 10
Facebook’s Been E-mailing Your IP Address to All Your Friends
Everything you’ve ever done on Facebook that sent a notification to someone — Facebook sent your computer’s IP address to them in the header of the notification e-mail.
I just tested it on some old notification e-mails and sure enough, it’s real.
It doesn’t always work — sometimes I got the “home” IP (127.0.0.1), but that their software is even designed to do this is alarming.
The worst part is the name of their mailer program. Zuckmail? Are you serious?
http://jwz.livejournal.com/1234802.html
UPDATE:
I did, in face, go through a dozen or so old e-mails. I am disturbed to have discovered how accurate this is.
IP, Base64 encoded, in every notification e-mail, tagging the initiator of the notice by their IP address. On the left are the IPs. On the right is the ARIN info.
Old friend from college who works for a lobbying firm in Sacramento.
192.234.214.x, Office of Legislative Counsel – Legislative Data Center
Friend with an iPhone, back when she had a BlackBerry on Verizon Wireless.
75.215.14.x, Cellco Partnership DBA Verizon Wireless
Friend at UCSD. Not sure why he was in Atlanta that day.
68.101.173.x, Cox Communications Inc.
Friend with an iPhone.
12.130.119.x, AT&T Wireless
Friend who used a shady Facebook app to tag me in a photo. App was hosted at Slicehost, interestingly.
173.203.210.x, Slicehost
Friend who works on the Paramount lot.
204.110.112.x, Paramount Pictures
IANA comes up a couple times. Not sure why yet.
10.22.110.x, Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
Got nukes? Friend who is working on her PhD at RAND.
130.154.0.x,The RAND Corporation
Now I know this friend has a cable modem and TimeWarner as her ISP.
98.148.210.x, Road Runner
This friend is has a DSL on ATT.
76.194.238.x, AT&T Internet Services.
12
Jan 10
Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net
Not a huge surprise. What’s odd is that there is an employee who is spilling the beans on this. Maybe they have an axe to grind — passed up for promotion or something burned by a supervisor.
Employee: I’m not sure when exactly it was deprecated, but we did have a master password at one point where you could type in any user’s user ID, and then the password. I’m not going to give you the exact password, but with upper and lower case, symbols, numbers, all of the above, it spelled out ‘Chuck Norris,’ more or less. It was pretty fantastic.
via Conversations About The Internet #5: Anonymous Facebook Employee – The Rumpus.net.
9
Dec 09
I *HEART* Android
BTW, I got an Android device (CDMA HTC Hero on Sprint) and I’m in love. This thing is easily as good as an iPhone and I’m seeing a lot more wow factor when people play with it. It’s got all the usual goodie apps (haven’t found a SlingPlayer Mobile, yet), most of which are free.
Major Selling Points
Reliable cell service (on Sprint and Verizon)
Support of Net Neutrality (on Sprint)
Open app distribution (no app censorship)
Open source development
DRM-free
Unlocking doesn’t brick the handset
Rising above the herd mentality of “The Apple Set”
Also, linking your contacts with your Facebook friends profile photos and birthdays (and Flickr, too)
23
Nov 09
Fox and Microsoft are up to Something
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It was interesting last night to notice the Microsoft product placement in Family Guy. For those of you who didn’t see it, the show entered its first commercial break with a Mac OS X-esque spinning beach ball – followed by Peter Griffin leading into a Vist- ahem. Excuse me. A Windows 7 commercial where he endorsed the product’s ease-of use. (For those of you who don’t know, Win 7 is re-packaged Vista. And you doubted the power of marketing!).
My first thought was immediately of the network’s political leaning’s. They are known neither for their populism, nor for their subtlety. Then this morning, I read that FT is reporting of a Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works. Despite it being Family Guy, it had the smack of Microsoft’s always-contrived advertising humor.
Animators, animators, animators...
"Peter, hold my ears so I can euuuuuuglabalacagh..."
I immediately laughed because the PHP community has a long tradition of using the characters and storyline of Family Guy when illustrating examples of programming concepts.
My next thought was of the way this is going to hurt News Corp. If this is accurate, there is going to be an even larger divide between the segments of the English speaking world vis-a-vis their attitude towards News Corp publications. If Murdoch pulls all his sites from Google, it may lose what little credibility it still has; insofar as the fox can blend in with the hounds as long as it doesn’t leave the pack.
Now see here, I own 30% of this network!
But once they leave the universe of Google indexing, and enter the unholy alliance with Microsoft, people will no longer be confused that what they are reading from News Corp via Google is actually news.
Net effect on Microsoft? Not sure about this one. They are paying News Corp to do this, so there’s that. But other than it being a waste of money, I’m not sure how is really going to make Bing much more of a competitor than it is now. Especially if Google keeps acting like a benevolent public utility co-op that makes money for everyone.
Another question — albeit one of lesser significance — is that of the weird vertical relationships of MySpace and Facebook. Myspace is a property of Fox Interactive Media and Facebook (incidentally a PHP-based site) had a large infusion of cash from Microsoft back in its earlier days (mostly a symbolic one).
No one is talking merger or anything, but it is interesting to see how ever-changing technology is driving the marketplace now more than ever.
Kyle Hayes