Facebook for LDAP? April 6, 2009
Posted by CLibra in Theoretical, Websites.trackback
Once you get past all the pokes and the photos, Facebook could actually have a ‘real world’ use in both home and business computing.
Consider this: your personal (or business) network all use Facebook and are friends with you. They can chose to share their contact information with you and you can with them, so it’s easy to log into the site and check any details. However, people like me, that live inside Thunderbird, would find it useful to be able to lookup friends’ details on the fly when composing emails, so an LDAP system around Facebook would be an interesting project to pursue.
Privacy implications? Each user authenticated to the LDAP server with their own Facebook login, so as long as that’s secure, you won’t have access to people that you shouldn’t, and users can control who sees their details & how much, so in theory it should be a good model.
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it would be fantastic- but I can’t see them doing something like that. What fraction of a percentage of their user base even know what LDAP is? What even smaller fraction would have a real use for it?
Allows a bit more competition for the Palm Pre via the iPhone. Pre syncs up nicely w/ facebook and other networks for multiple contact list aggregation. iPhone supports LDAP, add this and suddenly the Pre doesn’t have such an up. Of course, it may be more likely as an app than FB adding LDAP…