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Christopher Blizzard posted a message on Twitter

“One of my co-workers is playing a game on the web where if you die you have to watch an ad. That is fantastic.”

November 12 at 2:34 pm - Link

Jon McCoubrey, Panayotis Vryonis, Tim Ostler and 5 other people liked this

Now that's an original idea. - Kevin Bondelli

Sounds like the perfect ad platform for a product or service you want people to associate with losing. - Bruce Lewis via fftogo

Only losers see ads. Natch. - Christopher Blizzard

Christopher Blizzard updated their job title on LinkedIn

Director of Evangelism at Mozilla Corporation

September 5 at 2:29 pm - Link

DeWitt Clinton liked this

New title or just getting around to setting it? - DeWitt Clinton

those christians are everywhere - Gregory Lent

New title. Nice to hear from you, DeWitt! - Christopher Blizzard

Paul Buchheit posted a message

“If you uncheck "Accept third-party cookies", Firefox will no longer send any cookies to iframes (even if set outside of an iframe), which breaks the FriendFeed Facebook app. Has Firefox always been like this?”

July 22 at 5:56 pm - Link

Matthew Imakyure, Kol Tregaskes, Mitchell Tsai and 7 other people liked this

These "privacy" features end up hurting privacy, because then web sites switch to signed urls and such, which are much worse (they leak out in referrer headers). - Paul Buchheit

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Yup, this was exactly my problem. I accidentally unchecked it while messing around with cookies while programming...occupational hazard... - Emmett Shear

This breaks Feedly as well. I've always unchecked third-party cookies because I was under the impression that's where most click-trackers and ad-servers lived. Am I wrong? - Akiva Moskovitz

Yes, for exactly the same reasons. You are not wrong. - Sam Pullara

Isn't this the default policy in IE7, unless you enable p3p for the sites? - Michael Herf

I'm not pretty sure I agree with @paul - there are enough examples of manipulations by 3rd party cookies, from ads tuning and down to other nasty tricks. You may dislike it but it is there to protect us. And it is there for years. - silpol

It's irritating enough that I have to allow cookies on sites I want to share through the bookmarklet. Luckily, I use CS Lite. - Akiva Moskovitz

Please see this bugzilla entry for a quick overview: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... - Reading the entire bug is a good idea. This is also a relevant bug if you're interested: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/s... - Christopher Blizzard

These sorts of gimmicks are to privacy what a paper mache motorcycle helmet is to safety. They interfere with legitimate functionality while giving a false sense of security. - Paul Buchheit

I just 'disable refererrs" with the webdev toolbar, or you can do w/ about:config. I know that skews web reports, but for the most part most non-ssl websites don'r require you to be coming from the websit to see the content. - clarke thomas

you should accept authentication using facebook params, and set a cookie if you can. you have the user info right there - no need for a cookie - Ivan Kirigin

For the record, I was part of the IE team when we implemented the IE third party cookie P3P support. It was a feature completely designed by a set of State Attorneys General. They specified everything down to the UI in the IE control panel. It was a disaster. - Joe Beda

Ivan, those facebook params leak through referrer headers, meaning that other people can steal your login. Joe, the P3P thing is kind of dumb, but at least I can set the right headers to make the problem go away. That's an amusing back-story though. - Paul Buchheit

Dave Winer posted a message on Twitter

“whoisi.com is hot. very interesting. highest praise (on first impression). http://tinyurl.com/3ws4px”

June 26 at 3:58 pm - Link

Jeff Daly, John Jarvis, Dave Walker and 46 other people liked this

Y'all should definitely check it out. It's going to be consuming all the cycles in this section of the twitosphere for the next few days if not more. It's very good, unique, wish I had thought of it. - Dave Winer

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Cool. I'm http://whoisi.com/p/759 Without logins, how does it know who owns what profile, and who I'm "following"? Kinda weird. - Josh Bancroft

How does this differ from FriendFeed? Or rather, how does it differ from setting up an imaginary friend account on FriendFeed? - DeWitt Clinton

definitely interesting, cheers or sharing - Zee.

This is from a former RedHat-employee, who was (among other things) responsible for Mozilla-releases in RedHat-products. - sebmos

@Josh: It just uses a cookie. I'm here: http://whoisi.com/p/782 - donato via twhirl

@Donato so if I lose that cookie, I'm hosed? - Josh Bancroft

I'm on it as CreativeSage. Intriguing! - Cathryn Hrudicka

@Josh: Sort of. If you go to http://whoisi.com/logininfo it gives you a link to save that is basically like logging in (recreates the cookie, etc). That's just for knowing who you're following, though. Since it's wiki-ish, the profiles don't really belong to anyone. Or at least, that's how I understand it. - donato via twhirl

DeWitt, I don't know that may be all it is. I just started playing with it an hour or so ago. - Dave Winer

I'm filling up my page right now! - Brandon Titus

Something is going terribly wrong though. I'm trying to add profiles for other people and it keeps saying "that url is already associated with...". I think it may have to do with adding FriendFeed feeds. Not sure why though. - Brandon Titus

This is starting to REALLLLLY bug me. There is a flippin API (http://code.google.com/apis/so...) that will go out and discover all my sites. Stop telling people/me to add them manually and instead give them/me the option to add the sites that have already been discovered. More click, less type. :-L - Erica Baker

Erica, I never heard of that API. Is there an executive summary of it. Do website owners have to do something to support it? Also whoisi is just one guy doing it as a labor of love. Let's cut him some slack, eh? He doesn't have $5 million like the FF guys do. - Dave Winer

You don't need $5 million dollars to make use of a free API. Executive summary: "The Social Graph API makes information about the public connections between people on the Web easily available and useful for developers. Developers can query this public information to offer their users dramatically streamlined "add friends" functionality and other useful features." - Erica Baker

Look at this: http://socialgraph-resources.g... Thats an example app using the social graph API. See how easy it is? - Erica Baker

The social graph API also uses the Social Graph Node Mapper open source project to generate canonical urls for sites (e.g. what's the user profile page, where are the feeds, etc): http://code.google.com/p/googl... Patches welcome - Adewale Oshineye

Thanks for all the information about Google's API. Seems to have killed the discussion on whoisi.com, which is still quite interesting. I was wonder if it has an API -- kind of like the one in FriendFeed. How frequently does whoisi poll its RSS feeds? - Dave Winer

I try and early adopt as much as the next guy but Whoisi couldn't be more unintuitive. It's as if they're trying to make it cumbersome to use....and they provide as few clues to it's functionality as possible. You think it will succeed why? - Michael J. Pratt

@Dave: It does have an API. There isn't any documentation yet, but he does have example python scripts linked here: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/webl... - donato

I saw the note in your writeup, but Python example scripts aren't going to do it for me. How often do you poll? If it's often enough I won't have to use your API. Also -- you might want to consider implementing the server site of the weblogs.com ping API. That way I can ping you when my feed changes, you can read it, and we can accomplish virtually instant updating. That would probably be the most sensible approach. Also consider implementing the Twitter API, that way you don't have to write docs. :-) - Dave Winer

Also if you implement the Twitter API you'll get instant compatibility with lots of software, and the blessings of lots of developers. If you want to discuss offline, send me an email at dave dot winer at gmail dot com. - Dave Winer

What's the point? - fbrunel

Christopher's FF is here: http://friendfeed.com/blizzard. Hopefully he'll chime in and answer Dave's questions. :) - donato via twhirl

It's certainly something that I've been working on in my spare time and isn't as polished as FriendFeed. I did most of the original design and thinking on it including the look and feel before I even saw FriendFeed. The fact that they ended up looking about the same is chance. - Christopher Blizzard

http://whoisi.com is fantastic! A personality Google. - Leo Laporte

On the API front, there's a lot left to do and I never finished writing docs for it. Sorry if there are similar things that I could be taking advantage of, but I was more interested in the human side of the equation. This is at least 50% experiment for me to find out if people can do for feeds + following what Wikipedia has done for general information. That's why it's human-intensive. I want people who care, not just robots. - Christopher Blizzard

Erica - you seem really cranky - what gives? - Christopher Blizzard

Chris, watch out when Leo points to it -- he's got some *serious* flow. - Dave Winer

Oh crap. - Christopher Blizzard

I wonder if Feedly is using the Google Social Graph? It authenticates via Google and it sure knew a lot about me very quickly. I would use whoisi to get a certain kind of info about someone. A social graph search, I guess. The wiki element will make it interesting (or fail very fast). - Leo Laporte

Had someone notify me about my page at http://whoisi.com/p/836 pretty cool to have gotten a 3 digit id. I'm just randomly checking new id's by changing them in the URL. Got one where it showed a new site loading. They're almost up to 1200. Wondering if my 3 digit id will be as coveted as my 7 digit ICQ#. - Mark Krynsky

This reminds me of Spock.com - Mike Doeff

@Mark: 7 digit ICQ, nice. I have a 6 digit now. I HAD a 5 digit way back when, but I lost the info for the account and couldn't get it back. - donato via twhirl

Chris, have you setup a place where we can report bugs? Perhaps a whoisi FF room? Also, my current biggest concern is that there are no controls for rampant vandalism. It appears I can easily add a site or remove sites from anybody's page. - Mark Krynsky

I have no reason to acctually enter all of my stuff into Whoisi.com, purely because I can just as easily add my friendfeed rss feed, and a few other feeds that I want perticular interest to, and be done with it - Chacha via twhirl

@Mark: You can leave a comment in my blog if you want if you're having issues. Would love to know sites that do or don't work. I have a post about whoisi up there and how it all works. - Christopher Blizzard

I hate the constant captcha though. For God's sake don't ever build any new websites without openid support. - Shivanand Velmurugan

The constant captchas keep the abuse at least _somewhat_ limited. :) I also need to figure out what openid really means for the site. I've poked at it a tiny tiny bit. - Christopher Blizzard

cool site, no login; interesting. Will have to play more tomorrow. - Stuart Forsyth

I just turned off refreshing because twitter is in a fit. Again. And when it is everything else gets slow. I even have an SQL query that I run from time to time to clean out the bad data that twitter generates. I wonder how many of these sites include code just to handle twitter crapping itself a few times a day? - Christopher Blizzard

I've been checking it out, the core idea is certainly is very interesting. question is how quick can it add features? - Samuel Bostock