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"...and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone."
Hopefully they'll keep the more granular privacy settings, e.g., "Allow everyone except these people", e.g., "View your profile as Person X".
Loopt got around this somehow:
http://www.businessinsider.com/loopt-to-run-in-the-backgroun...
I guess if you fellate / pay Apple enough, they let you do it.
It's funny we all share a similar view on ycombinator.com (the 'facelift' is nothing special), yet everyone on the source page is orgasming over it.
== critical thinkers vs. autofellating designers
/Designing Virtual Worlds/ by Richard Bartle
Henry Rollins.
Creative, productive, knowledgeable, and funny.
Not SOAP :) It's a pain to consume compared to POX (plain old XML) or JSON.
"The experiences I'm having with business owners in every city makes me understand some things:
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2. Twitter is underhyped. I'm now convinced that Twitter has locked up a whole raft of businesses and that Twitter is actually worth five to 10 billion dollars.
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Anyway, this all leads me to understand that Twitter is way underhyped and is worth more in the marketplace than anyone has estimated yet."
So the author "understands" that Twitter is underhyped because, citing item number 2, "Twitter is underhyped." What kind of silly argumentation is this?