> Don't worry. In at most one month's time nobody will remember this and Facebook will be awesome again.
Facebook stopped being awesome a long time ago. I doubt it ever will be again. You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not. If facebook didn't repeatedly abuse its users' trust and privacy, there'd be no backlash. There'd be no 'flaming' articles and no shitstorms.
> Until it's time again to fish for pageviews at which point another flaming article will be published somewhere and everyone will repost it in their own words in order to get pageviews.
Perhaps so, but the extension isn't a result of a flaming article. It has over 100,000 users and 4000+ weekly installs.
I agree, though to be fair, facebook isn't the only site where third parties have tried to fix privacy issues.
I read once that you know you've really made it when an eco-system grows around your product or service. The same can be said here: you know your product or service sucks if unpaid developers feel compelled to try and fix it.
This reminds me of Palm's Graffiti system used on the Palm Pilot range of PDAs [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS) ]. That system too used simple gestures that mimicked hand-writing.
Rather than training the system to learn how to decipher the user's input, it required the user to learn some basic gestures. The input speed may not have been as fast as the predictive touchscreen keyboards on iphone/android phones, but it was a pleasure to use and accuracy was second to none.
It's an equipment and room booking/reservation system for schools and colleges (initially). I have some ideas about the interface I want but I like the design chops to implement them efficiently.
There are the usual elements found in web apps like dashboards, navigation and forms. There are also month/week/day views to view and make bookings for a given resource.