I mean, by the patent description couldn't this just be the ticker auto-sharing stuff?
I think something along the lines of what they've done where you have to approve a given app (or domain) before you can be tracked on it and maybe otherwise it logs things anonymously with a hashed UID like Facebook asks facebook app developers to do with all their logging.
We could use this thread to give some feedback back to Facebook. They'll hear it and might even listen. Because this isn't black and white. All the web developers on here "track users" on their websites, it can be as mild as logging for AB testing. Facebook is now needing to do this across domains because their application extends across domains. Where do you draw the line?
I'm still trying to wrap my mind around what makes Box so special. Is there anything behind it that a hand full of us couldn't replicate on the amazon cloud in an afternoon with a couple laptops and a pot of coffee?
Plus, isn't the file sharing market going to be shrinking as more of these documents are going to be created and collaborated on in an application native to the web?
And the Google Drive stuff that got leaked?
Salesforce/Marc have made some good investments with Heroku, Mashery, and a list of others but I'm not so sure how long box can keep this up. I know they're hiring aggressively though.
Heroku is owned by Salesforce now and subject to their agenda. Could be a good thing for some reasons, but it leaves room for a nimble startup to use the start-up advantage (fast moving, close to customers, unencumbered by a corporate leash) to compete. They're going to have to keep moving though.
Definitely unsettling but this has been a part of Facebook you could hack since they opened up those features last f8. I think the Facebook team does a pretty good job following up on spam reports and shutting down pages/developers that abuse their system. What I usually do to protect myself as a user is connect to Facebook in one browser when I want to use Facebook features and use another browser for most other web browsing.
I think something along the lines of what they've done where you have to approve a given app (or domain) before you can be tracked on it and maybe otherwise it logs things anonymously with a hashed UID like Facebook asks facebook app developers to do with all their logging.