Losing Facebook

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Admit it, you hate Facebook. Okay, I hate Facebook. And I hate that they’re now taking legal action against those of us using the code that allows people to update their status remotely. The next version of MoodBlast will remove Facebook support until they actually support it in their crappy API. I’ll do my best to add a few more services, starting with a gem that you probably haven’t heard of but I’m falling in love with: Yappd. And Plazes, and expanded locations support and all the good stuff. I know I’ll lose a lot of interest when I drop Facebook, but they make it harder for us every day and now they’re threatening us. Oh well. By the way, the next version will completely fix Unicode/UTF-8 problems as well as international weather issues, so international users will be able to rock and roll, everywhere but Facebook.

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  1. MoodBlast 2.13 — Circle Six Blog 09.07.07 / 11pm

    […] current users can just use the built in update options. New users, head for the download page! As mentioned previously, Facebook is no longer a friend of MoodBlast. We’re sorry that it ended the way it did, and […]

  2. Randy Charles Morin 09.08.07 / 8pm

    It sounds like you are telling one side of the story. I’ve created lots of web services and I’ve had to shut a lot of people out. Mostly because of API abuse. Let me guess.

  3. brett 09.08.07 / 8pm

    Ummmm, the program in question (MoodBlast) has always made a concerted effort to make proper use of APIs generously provided by web services. In Facebook’s case, there’s no API (for the services required) available. Facebook’s popularity drives a certain amount of ambitious effort to provide only the same service there that we’re providing at every other similar platform. I’m having trouble seeing where “abuse” comes into play.

  4. Randy Charles Morin 09.08.07 / 9pm

    Oh geeze my fault. I complete forgot how Facebook specifically put in the terms of use that you are allowed to screen scrape and automate their site. My apologies.

    Now, on the other hand, if that wasn’t specifically allowed for, then you be awful stupid not being able to figure out how this is ABUSE.

  5. Chinarut 09.12.07 / 12am

    hey - always open to alternatives - what is your social networking platform of choice now?

    not readily apparent from your post unless i missed something!

  6. brett 09.12.07 / 6am

    As far as “Social Networking”, VIRB has been the only place for me, ever since its inception. Micro-blogging is a toss up between Twitter (huge user base) and Yappd (great feature set).

  7. carns 09.15.07 / 6pm

    I think that they should shut those pirates down!! They are living in the past with their school day rubbish from South Africa!!

  8. paul walk’s weblog » Blog Archive » What do IM and social networks have in common? 09.24.07 / 4pm

    […] update their status across several social-networking systems. The developers behind MoodBlast have removed support for updating Facebook however, claiming that this is motivated by a threat of legal … from […]

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