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https://corkpage.com/

by rchr • 10 years ago

37 37 10 years ago

corkpage.com

eksu• 10 years ago

how do I opt out?

rchr2• 10 years ago

Close your page(s) from Settings (need to log in): https://corkpage.com/help#close-page https://corkpage.com/settings

klaustopher4• 10 years ago

So I have to login to your page (that I never signed up for in the first place) which means I'm giving you access to my Twitter/Facebook account just to prevent people from posting to my "public message board"?

That's messed up!

dmitrygr• 10 years ago

No thanks. I am not giving you access to my FB/TWTR account (so you can scrape it for more poor souls to harass) just to stop you from using my name and likeness to make money.

Better idea: you stop yourself or get sued. :)

inputcoffee• 10 years ago

Isn't twitter basically a public message board for every twitter user?

So now the public message board app has a public message board?

This is like explaining that Lyft is Uber for rides.

Unless I am missing something (which, I concede, is entirely possible).

tekklloneer• 10 years ago

This gives me a neat idea though: curated corkpages. Basically, I tag people in from twitter and facebook, and they can only post on certain pages.

bemmu• 10 years ago

Here's mine if you want to try it out: https://corkpage.com/f/505938970063

relyks• 10 years ago

I actually like this. This definitely will come in handy for expressing gratitude towards others, and I can see a potential use case as like a memorial guest book to commemorate people who have passed away.

But, how is this any different than using Facebook and setting the privacy on your wall to be public or changing the privacy setting for individual posts?

foota• 10 years ago

They get to take ad revenue from Facebook :) I seriously wonder if Facebook will allow this to continue (to use their login) don't most services have clauses about offering competing services?

duckehlabs• 10 years ago

What is the expected use case? Generally people set their social media to private for a reason. Maybe I'm just being negative, but I feel like the most common use case would be to say bad things about someone where they haven't thought to block it yet or don't know about it.

helthanatos• 10 years ago

Seems like a waste of storage space/bandwidth/resources/etc. I very well may be wrong, but I don't really see much point in it. It could become a fad, but those aren't very useful.

siquick• 10 years ago

So like your pointless and negative post then?

temp-4916c990• 10 years ago

It's very meta, I like it. It's a good demonstration that that people's social networking accounts (or any username or identity) are real-world phenomena and aren't just applicable within the walled garden itself, but can be used to label, target, and identify.

The concept is not new. Back in the myspace days, people would have these crush pages for confessions and rants, etc. This is the same kind of thing. But it's interesting that we've come far enough (technologically) that you can actually log in using your $socialnetwork account and claim your own page. This gives it a new dimension that we haven't had before.

Animats• 10 years ago

Not quite. Every Twitter and/or Facebook user potentially has a public message board here. The page is only created if someone accesses it. They don't have Facebook's user list. But if this becomes popular, they will, over time, acquire it by scraping.

Anyone remember Third Voice?

patates• 10 years ago

So this is ask.fm with twitter login support.

opens ask.fm to make sure. realizes that they added twitter login

So this is an ask.fm clone?

realizes this sounds more negative than intended

What would make me prefer corkpage over ask.fm and other similar services?

In addition, why limit this to Facebook and Twitter handles, rather than accepting any URI?

robzyb• 10 years ago

What would make me prefer corkpage over ask.fm and other similar services?

I haven't heard of either of these services before, but I just spent 30 seconds on each.

With corkpage: I told FB to accept the request and I was logged in straight away.

With ask.fm: I told FB to accept the request, and then ask.fm asked me a bunch of information to register. Quite annoying.

eridius2• 10 years ago

Wow, this looks like a great way to harass people. Now you can publicly post bad shit about people on their public page that they don't even know about, but anyone else who knows about it can now see it.

witty_username• 10 years ago

One can already harass people on other sites. I could post to 4chan saying bad shit about a person. Or create a page with bad shit about a person.

eridius2• 10 years ago

Sure, but none of that stuff is associated with the person. You badmouthing someone on a forum is simply you badmouthing someone on a forum. But what we're talking about here is a public page that is explicitly associated with a given person, and yet not under that person's control or even necessarily known to that person. It's a very different context and will be interpreted differently by people viewing it.

chipperyman573• 10 years ago

If you want to harass people, there are already a ton of (public) ways to do it. I'm sure you could find one website the person doesn't know about if that's your goal.

IAmEveryone• 10 years ago

Hi there. Please delete my data from your "service". As a European, my data is subject to the EU's data protection directive as long as I'm acting as "Consumer".

You can chose to stay in Canada and I can't do anything but get a useless default judgement. Until you choose to travel to Europe, or to any country that has an extradition treaty with the EU, or CETA is implemented. But meanwhile I do get better-than-average interest :)

spejson• 10 years ago

Exactly this. Sadly, this is not the first time that somebody is immorally trying to profit off of public profiles.

tvmalsv• 10 years ago

So I can't post something to my own corkpage? Or is it by design in order to ....

Please tell me what I should replace the ellipses with. :)

rchr2• 10 years ago

Just to clarify, Corkpage does not have everyone's data. Facebook and Twitter do. They give out basic profile information to other apps via their APIs, which any developer can use within limits. Say, if someone downloads a third-party Twitter app, they can look you up from within that app. The app will request your info from Twitter via the API, and will get it, even if you have never installed the app yourself.

Please do not freak out. This was just an idea. We thought it would be cool to turn profile URLs into something like an email address. So you could write to anyone, from Facebook to Twitter, and back. We were building a back-end framework and a JS library at the time. It was more fun to work on a project that used both rather than do it in the abstract.

We were/are worried about abuse as well. There is a way to report abuse, and we are monitoring the reports. Except there aren't a whole lot of posts anyway. We don't have a good idea of what the best use for Corkpage would be either (if you figure it out, let us know), but we were never going to let it be anything negative.

As someone said, you post only on pages of others, but can reply, delete and premod on yours. It works like a guestbook, or Ask.fm.

Thank you for the feedback. Peace.

anonymous344• 10 years ago

After short time, this whole idea seems pointless.

Maybe if there is something that you see in here but fail to describe, please try again.

The commenting is not even anonymous, so... no...value..

auganov• 10 years ago

I've actually been worried about a more malicious version of that with complete disregard for privacy, scraping terms and what not. Sort of a personal Wikileaks on everyone. Somebody could host the real thing on TOR and just have proxies accessible from the general Internet.

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