Continued Facebook Sluggishness and Other FB Stuff
As most divShare users know, we recently implemented Facebook Connect, not only allowing you to easily access your divShare files using your existing FB account login, but to also create privacy settings within Facebook itself! This is the first service of it’s kind, and fixes one of the fundamental flaws in Facebook, that once you post something, everyone can see it no matter who they are!!! Do you want your co-workers seeing your baby pics? Do your friends care that you got a new plaque that says “Top Earner, Q1 2009, Mid-Atlantic Region”? Of course not–now you can set who sees what.
You publish, you control, right? Yep.
Check out this video of the Facebook experience without divShare Privacy controls: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrlSkU0TFLs
However, because of how Facebook’s APIs work, our users have found some considerably slower performance when using their dashboard within FB. Unfortunately there is little divShare can do about this, but please know we are petitioning Facebook to optimize the data transactions.
Another item of note concerning Facebook… they just came out with their new, much ballyhood Privacy Policies, allowing for more openness. In our opinion it falls short of what we’d want. Read Write Web kind of feels the same: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/despite_new_openness_facebook_remains_fundamentall_1.php
