Last week, I built a little widget for MindPosts.com that generates random quotes as if from Ayn Rand characters. My good friend, Rick Marazzani, put together the phrases and the template for combining them. I built the framework that allows anyone to embed the quotes in any Web site. Rick explained the philosophical ideas behind [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Facebook Apps Still Not Serving SSL
March 16th, 2011
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Almost two months ago, Facebook added a setting for browsing with an SSL connection. So far, most app developers have not yet caught up. It’s simple. Go to Account->Account Settings->Account Security->Secure Browsing and click a checkbox. After saving, your Facebook experience will all flow over SSL, every byte encrypted with a 128-bit key. But [...]
Release Your Metaphors
March 8th, 2011
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Recently, Josh Ross noted how the metaphor of business as war is changing into a metaphor of voluntary cooperation. People are speaking about making their businesses more social. At the surface, this might seem like when the conversation was about making Web sites more interactive. This isn’t fashion. It isn’t the latest technique for improving [...]
