LL with integrated social networking, a mixed blessing
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| vainrveenr Apr 30, 2010 5:20 PM EDT |
A few recent social networking-oriented reviews mention Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx's Me Menu and Gwibber (Gwibber described more fully at its mainsites http://gwibber.com/ and https://launchpad.net/gwibber ) From ComputerWorld's 'Ubuntu 10.04 'Lucid Lynx' released for social desktop, netbook' found at http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/344943/ubuntu_10_04_... : Quoting:This Ubuntu release adopts a “social from the start” direction with desktop integration for popular online social networking services. From ZDNet's 'Can Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" lure the social crowd?' found at http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=8162 : Quoting:An app going by the odd name of Gwibber allows users to combine data from Twitter, Facebook, Digg and other online services. This microblogging app is built directly into the OS so users can boot and and hook into their data streams effortlessly. And yet, this very social-network integration tied-in with Lucid Lynx could end up as quite the mixed blessing. Online behemoth Facebook has recently enacted its own controversial social-networking "improvements". As last week's eWeek piece 'Facebook Offers Social Plugins, Open Graph, Graph API at F8' describes it: Quoting:The redesigned Facebook Platform now lets Website publishers build a bridge between their content and users' Facebook information. This includes a Like button available as one of Facebook's Social Plugins and the use of the Open Graph Protocol, which allows any Web page to become part of Facebook's social graph. More than 75 partners are launching Social Plugins of some sort immediately, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he expects these partners will serve more than 1 billion Like buttons. Zuckerberg also unveiled an integration between Docs.com from Microsoft FUSE Labs and Facebook. There are those who are concerned that users' privacy concerns are being effectively squashed by Facebook's Social Plugins and the use of the Open Graph Protocol. And squashed behind Facebook users' backs no less! Partners such as Microsoft of all companies(!) may now be able to obtain, market, and distribute Facebook user information almost by default. And Lucid Lynx's Me Menu and Gwibber could very well end up passively assisting erosions of privacy such as Facebook's recent "improvements". |
| Steven_Rosenber Apr 30, 2010 6:04 PM EDT |
Quoting:And Lucid Lynx's Me Menu and Gwibber could very well end up passively assisting erosions of privacy such as Facebook's recent "improvements". That very well may be true, but you opt-in to using Gwibber/Me Menu - you have to actively put your account information into the interface. I don't think Facebook is so nice about it; I believe you have to opt out of their new "pages" situation. Truthfully, I can barely understand how Facebook actually works - and that underlying complexity makes me very wary of it. |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2010 6:23 PM EDT |
Rubbish. The "Me Menu" is nothing more than a drop down menu that contains a list of whatever social networking applications you have running. It does nothing by default. The only "social" service I have is Ubuntu Cloud, so that's the only one that connects to anything by default, andthat's only because I set it to do so. The Me Menu is the dropdown that well drops down when you click on the current user's name next to the shut down button. |
| techiem2 Apr 30, 2010 7:42 PM EDT |
Out of curiosity: Does the Me Menu support identi.ca ? |
| tracyanne Apr 30, 2010 10:16 PM EDT |
Quoting:Does the Me Menu support identi.ca ? Yes, it's one of the options under "Broadcast Accounts" The other options are Flickr Twitter Status Net Qaiku Facebook Friend Feed Digg |
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