Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Dear Instagram – Why Do You Need Offline Access To My Facebook Data

Thursday, November 11th, 2010

A good friend of mine pointed me in the direction of an application for my smartphone called Instagram. Pretty cool – take pictures, add filter to them, upload to instagram and they post to Facebook and Twitter. So as I was testing this app, I went to add my Facebook credentials so Instagram could post there. I was surprised when one of the privileges it was asking for is to access my data while I am not using the app:

Why

Why

Needless to say, I did not allow it. And since I can’t post to Facebook with this app, it is useless to me. Why would they possibly need that? Be careful who you give a permission like that to, people!

UPDATE!!

@instagram got back to me on twitter with an answer to this. See it here:

http://twitter.com/instagram/status/2820557485637632

Facebook Chat XMPP Configuration

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Just a note: the Facebook Chat data in my post regarding configuration settings for Pidgin and Facebook Chat can be used in any chat client that can connect to XMPP. You just may have to play around with your settings to see what goes where.

Facebook Chat XMPP Settings with Pidgin

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Facebook, earlier this week, released their new XMPP Facebook Chat which now allows any XMPP-enabled chat client to connect to Facebook chat. For whatever reason I thought this was already how things were done, but I guess not. I just set this up with Pidgin and figured I’d share the information.

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Facebook Message [Send] Delayed

Monday, January 26th, 2009

 

Message Delayed

Message Delayed

I don’t know what’s going on at Facebook, but nothing beats coming in on a monday morning and starting to wonder if your messages are actually getting through to the people that are suppose to recieve it. Facebook, what’s going on here?

Facebook Chat – A Review

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

It has been about 8 days since Facebook Chat was activated for me and as far as I am concerned, it is a winner. One of my biggest concerns is that the service would feel tacked on and very intrusive. Thankfully this is not the case.

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Facebook Chat – An Overview

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

Yesterday, Facebook activated the new chat functionality in my network, and I think it is fantastic. When I first heard about the possibility of a Facebook chat being rolled out, I thought back about the terrible failure that is Myspace Messenger. However I come before you to say, this is not the case with Facebook. Continue reading for an overview of the functionality.

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