Comments on: FriendFeed, Aggregate and Share Web Content With Friends

By: Aaron

Aaron — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:40:39 +0000

@Andy, these sites don’t ask you for your password for any of these services. They pick up data available publicly in rss feeds, atom feeds, and public apis. Delicious bookmarks, for example, are available to anyone that queries for them. Each individual site (well, most of them) have options to disable this feature.

Iminta.com lets you also choose who can see the data that it scripts. You can make all the information it picks up public (so anyone can see it) or you can share it with specific friends. But the important thing is that the data is already public, and if you don’t like it out there, then your beef is with Flickr, Youtube, etc. etc.

-Aaron (@ iminta.com)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 02:32:53 +0000

My concern with all of these sites — you enter your email account password etc. — so these sites should be HIGH on any hacker’s list. Literally a treasure trove given that most people use the same (or a small set of) passwords over & over again.

Not to mention the privacy intrusions that can occur without you ever knowing it.

I’m staying away from all of them ….
And you may want to read this before posting your photos/videos to sites : http://www.jmg-galleries.com/blog/2008/02/19/how-the-rights-to-your-photo-are-being-hijackedthrough-photo-contests-social-media/

By: Kelley Buhles

Kelley Buhles — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:49:24 +0000

I also use Iminta.com!

I love it.

By: Chris Pommier

Chris Pommier — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:40:19 +0000

Signed up for both FriendFeed and Spokeo today because of this post. Have to say, out of the box I like Spokeo better. Less work. and it doesn’t ask if it can email all my friends with yet another invitation. Just quietly scrubs social sites for my friends’ email addresses and delivers their feeds to me.

Agree with stega above, though … what WILL happen to all that lovely data I’ve been tagging and organizing for these nice companies?

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:44:40 +0000

Sorry, nothing to the story. I just like iminta. Though I will share I’m confused by a company that does a mostly self-funded formal Series A instead of just investing their own money like what is normally done and giving themselves shares. But that is all unqualified armchair speculation. I just been using iminta and enjoy it.

By: stega

stega — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:32:33 +0000

My question is, what’s to stop them from using your seemingly innocent RSS/site reading prefs as a data mine and selling it off.

OpenID options are much more viable solutions.

By: Scott Beale

Scott Beale — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:26:21 +0000

Ted, I use several services that are self-funded, overfunded and so on. That usually has nothing to do with why I like a service or not.

It sounds like there is more to the story. Do tell.

By: Ted Rheingold

Ted Rheingold — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:14:40 +0000

I recommend iminta.com. It’s made with love, not self-funded millions.

http://iminta.com/people/tedr

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:20:26 +0000

Did you hear about http://www.spokeo.com.

“Perfect” for any stalker, jealous friends, parents….