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Abraham Williams replied on June 13, 2008 02:44 to the discussion "The unusual case of Jmcoon" in Twitter:

I also noticed @Jmcoon following me today. I figured with 5000k+ followers he must have a pretty big online presence. Doing a Google search [1] returned odd results. My favorite being stats on Twitterholic [2]. Interesting anomalies such as dropping from 1,691 followers to 1 and then back up to 3,632. Or going from 130k friends to 4.4k friends. There is also his website, facebook page, and several posts here on GS. Including one where he is complaining about having his account disabled.

The issues with incorrect following stats could be because of Twitters recent instability.

[1] http://www.google.com/search?q=Jmcoon
[2] http://twitterholic.com/twitter/Jmcoon/
[3] http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/to...

Abraham Williams started following the problem "I can't win at Solitaire... What's up with that?" in Microsoft Corporation.

Abraham Williams reported a problem in EFF on April 30, 2008 23:10:

EFFector Signup Results in Password Being Emailed

When I signed up for the EFFector newsletter I received an email that contained my password in plain text.

Passwords should be:
A) Not emailed.
B) Stored using one way encryption.

Abraham Williams replied on April 30, 2008 21:36 to the problem "Advanced to level 3 without creating mission" in GameLayers:

ok. cool. thanks for the reply.

Abraham Williams marked one of Merci's replies in GameLayers as useful. Merci replied to the problem "Advanced to level 3 without creating mission".

Abraham Williams reported a problem in GameLayers on April 30, 2008 21:05:

Advanced to level 3 without creating mission

I advanced to level 3 without creating a mission because I reached the DP required for for level 4.
profile: http://pmog.com/users/4braham

abraham williams replied on March 21, 2008 22:45 to the idea "Adding services to My Service should open in new tab." in Socialthing:

From a security point of view I don't think any page asks for a password should hide the address bar. It may make things a little uglier but over all it make the internet a safer place. Personally I can't wait for OAuth and OpenID to be implemented on every web service.

Even if anyone can right-click and see the true url most "average" users won't know they can do that. I'm not concerned with with Socialthing! phishing passwords but if people get used to you using poor security practice the next web service they use might not be as trustworthy.

Thanks for you responses.

abraham williams replied on March 21, 2008 22:04 to the idea "Adding services to My Service should open in new tab." in Socialthing:

Having a tab open next to my current tab does not break the workflow but I can see how it would for some people. Actually having to sign into Facebook when I already am breaks the workflow more for me.

It does seem like all i hear about Facebooks app platform is they won't let you do what you need it to do.

abraham williams replied on March 21, 2008 21:45 to the question "Socialthing! does not need the ability to delete Flickr photos." in Socialthing:

Currently I only add photos to Flickr through their web interface or using a program I have complete control over. So the ability for Socialthing! to upload pictures isn't useful to me. I look forward to the ability to use only the "Read" access level for Flickr.

I was not implying that I felt Socialthing! would delete my photos just that its a authorization level I'm not wiling to give to anyone.

Maybe Flickr will implement a "Add" only level of authorization where you can add photos but not delete them.

Thanks.

abraham williams marked one of Ben's replies in Socialthing as useful. Ben replied to the question "Socialthing! does not need the ability to delete Flickr photos.".

abraham williams shared an idea in Socialthing on March 21, 2008 21:34:

Adding services to My Service should open in new tab.

When i try to authenticate Flickr, Vimeo, and Facebook to My Services list they should open in a new tab or a new window where the address bar is visible. I refuse to enter passwords into a window where I can't tell what the URL is. Plus I shouldn't even have to use a Facebook password since you can use an application.

abraham williams asked a question in Socialthing on March 21, 2008 21:22:

Socialthing! does not need the ability to delete Flickr photos.

Why does Socialthing! want access to be able to delete my Flickr photos? There is no reason Socialthing! needs anything other than read access.

abraham williams started following the problem "When someone you're following protects their updates, you cannot request to follow them because it says you already are" in Twitter.