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daveman692

544 karma · joined December 8, 2009

I work at the intersection of technology and philanthropy at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
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daveman692··on Facebook Finds A New Way To Liberate Your Gmail Contact Data
Beyond the script from derferman, you can download a copy of all of your photos (and videos, wall posts, etc) as a zip file directly off of Facebook from the bottom of your Account Settings page.
daveman692··on UberCab Ordered to Cease And Desist
I used to be a huge fan of Taxi Magic but the past few months have found it less and less reliable. Basically if the cab is over .2 miles away it will pick up a fare on the street instead. When UberCab tells me that a car is coming, I can trust that it will actually come.
daveman692··on Facebook iPhone app takes OSS code without attribution
You're right, thanks!
daveman692··on Facebook iPhone app takes OSS code without attribution
I'm David Recordon and head up our open source programs at Facebook. I'd like to point out Jeff Verkoeyen's comment about where this specific piece of code came from. http://developers.enormego.com/view/what-happened-common-cou...

Back in February a developer outside of Facebook sent a GitHub pull request which included this pull to refresh functionality. At the time we believed that the developer wrote the code themselves and thus didn't realize that it actually came from Shaun's open source library EGOTableViewPullRefresh. I'm sorry that we messed this one up. Three20 has over a dozen different contributors (http://github.com/facebook/three20/blob/master/AUTHORS) and we try really hard to give credit where it is due.

As for fixing this, the code clearly came from EGOTableViewPullRefresh and we're updating the four file's within Three20 to directly reflect that and link back to Shaun's project. This patch will be pushed to GitHub shortly.

While it isn't the most well known address, please always feel free to email opensource@facebook.com or me directly at davidrecordon@facebook.com.

daveman692··on OpenID Connect
This proposal supports using email addresses as identities.
daveman692··on OpenID Connect
Delegation still works, but you'll need to run or use a server which is willing to assert your domain name.
daveman692··on New ‘OpenID Connect’ Proposal Could Solve Many of the Social Web’s Woes
And that's what we're working on fixing.

Quoting from http://openidconnect.com/:

"It is designed to be modern, removing support for features which haven't seen adoption and adding support for things like using your email address as your identity."

"We've heard loud and clear that sites looking to adopt OpenID want more than just a unique URL; social sites need basic things like your name, photo, and email address."

"We have also heard that people want OpenID to be simple. I've heard story after story from developers implementing OpenID 2.0 who don't understand why it is so complex and inevitably forgot to do something. With OpenID Connect, discovery no longer takes over 3,000 lines of PHP to implement correctly. Because it's built on top of OAuth 2.0, the whole spec is fairly short and technology easy to understand. Building on OAuth provides amazing side benefits such as potentially being the first version of OpenID to work natively with desktop applications and even on mobile phones."

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