condescension.net » Facebook http://condescension.net doesn't have a catchy tagline. Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:53:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Facebook Beacon: Perfect for self-centered pricks. http://condescension.net/2007/11/16/facebook-beacon-perfect-for-self-centered-pricks/ http://condescension.net/2007/11/16/facebook-beacon-perfect-for-self-centered-pricks/#comments Fri, 16 Nov 2007 15:42:20 +0000 Mike Corey http://www.condescension.net/2007/11/16/facebook-beacon-perfect-for-self-centered-pricks/ beacon_48.png

Facebook Beacon is a new effort announced by Facebook to allow users to share their buying preferences. A few lines of javascript allows a website to post to facebook what items you purchased, games you played, movies you saw etc. Hell attach the three lines of code to your toilet so you can alert your emo friends when you drop a deuce.

Seriously, are we that vain of a country that we need to tell everyone in the world we bought a DVD. I don’t care who you are I don’t give a toss if you bought friends volume 1 on DVD on overstock.com. If you think everyone does, you’re an ass.

]]> http://condescension.net/2007/11/16/facebook-beacon-perfect-for-self-centered-pricks/feed/ 0 Adding microformats to Facebook with Greasemonkey http://condescension.net/2007/09/27/adding-microformats-to-facebook-with-greasemonkey/ http://condescension.net/2007/09/27/adding-microformats-to-facebook-with-greasemonkey/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:13:37 +0000 Mike Corey http://www.condescension.net/2007/09/27/adding-microformats-to-facebook-with-greasemonkey/ Why not tag facebook with microformats. Its already got the data there. So in an attempt to learn javascript namely the DOM I created a greasemonkey script which will tag a profile for a microformat reader. This works great in operator. I can visit a facebook site and up top i now have an option to save to my yahoo contacts or my outlook (as a vcard). Anyways it’s nowhere near complete but check it out.

There’s a few issues. One being that facebook doesn’t actually give emails in text. Facebook converts emails to images for spam prevention purposes. This is a bit of a problem as thats a pretty important thing to tag. Anyways. Check it out if you’re bored.

GreaseMonkey Microformats in Facebook

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