Haha yep. Anyone know of a way to hide that? We might have to save the pic from fb. That would be a pain though.

It shouldn't be too much of a pain to do. I do something like this on http://thingist.com (Not caching facebook photos, caching the randomly generated 3x3 pictures that it gives you if you don't connect with facebook [the script to generate the pictures is expensive])

The python to do it would look something like this:

def cache_fb_photo(fb_uid,cache_name):

     import urllib
     import time

     request = urllib.urlopen("https://graph.facebook.com/%s/picture" % (fb_uid))

     photo = request.read()

     photo_location = "/path/to/photo/cache/cache_name"
     cached_photo = open(photo_location, "w")
     cached_photo.write(photo)
     cached_photo.close()

This may or may not violate facebook's ToS. Obviously it would take more than this to actually put it into production, but this would kindof work.

There really isn't a way around that (as far as I can tell) beyond caching them on your server.

Your relaxed attitude to privacy is enough to make me never use that site, sorry.

The fact that it is a 'pain' to make the effort to protect someones identity means you're probably in the wrong business.

I agree we should remove that feature at some point. Let me ask you how is different from how farmville build up traffic.

"Farmville does it" isn't a valid excuse. Be kind to users. Don't sink to the lowest common denominator.

Do you think this has potential? It just launched so the number of people chatting is not quite there yet.

I think this has more potential than chatroulette due to its lack of anonymity.

The fact that users can be (at least partially) identified by their facebook profiles, should prevent predatorial behaviour.

I would include a three strike policy where your users could denounce rude and abusive behaviour, and after 3 complaints, the accused could be banned from using the application.

Be careful and smart about that 3 strike policy. Remember the ability to "warn" back on AIM? It got really annoying. How are you going to keep people from abusing this 3 strike system?

Also, identification of a Facebook profile does not necessarily prevent predatorial behavior. It doesn't promote it, sure, but anyone can make a believable fake profile.

More potential than chatroulette is a bold claim considering they came first. Despite that, your app does have potential, and personally, I would use it, at least the concept of it. Right now it's not very usable. It rotates through like 5 people and they're not necessarily 'there'.

Yup, definitely.

Paying users to spam facebook will not work in the long term.

Im in Austin too. What is your name / company? What made you decide to leave Austin? It does have a growing tech hub.

I'm wondering the same thing as well. After scouring the country for quite a while, I'm planning on moving my company down (or starting my next one) there in the next year or so.

Wondering if you can briefly explain why you picked Austin? I'm considering a visit.. if that goes well maybe a move..

For me, it's the whole package. Tech hub, low cost of living/high salaries, nice people, warm.

Why Verizon Don't Have the iPhone: http://money.cnn.com/2010/05/28/technology/verizon_iphone/in...

New standards are coming in next year. Makes little sense for Apple to make a CDMA phone now.

It's not like they can sell a Verizon iPhone without CDMA right after Verizon launches a 4G network. Without backwards compatibility there would be no coverage, it would be worse than AT&T.

good points...I will take care of A) soon.

what do you mean?