Sounds a lovely idea. How does this work? I thought you couldn't delete your Facebook profile - once you've registered they keep all your info on their database for ever - or have they stopped doing that?
dave 2009/7/3 Olga <[email protected]>: > ////////////////// WEB 2.0 SUICIDE MACHINE ///////////////// > > WORM’s own medialab moddr_ has conjured up a machine that lets you > delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your > fake virtual friends, and completely do away with your Web2.0 > alterego. The machine is just a metaphor for the website which moddr_ > is hosting; the belly of the beast where the web2.0 suicide machine is > maintained. Our services currently runs with facebook.com, myspace.com > and LinkedIn.com! Commit NOW! > > The machine consists of a tweaked Linux server installation running on > the release 8.10 of Ubuntu, called Intrepid. Apart from a standard > installation of the HTTP web-server (apache2 with python module), > there are two main additions. First, Selenium RC Control is is a > server which automatically launches and kills browsers and runs as > java applet in the background. It automatically fills in forms, makes > AJAX requests and simulate keystrokes. This all driven by a single > python/cgi script with some additional self-written libraries. > > Secondly, each user can watch her suicide action in real-time via a > VNC remote desktop session, displayed on our website via an flash > applet rendered live into the client's webbrowser. Apart from using > Selenium and Python, we were also running some customized bash scripts > plus MySQL in the background for logging and debugging, jquery for the > website and a modified version of the great FlashlightVNC application > built in Flex. Web2.0 Suicide Machine consists of roughly 1500 lines > of self-written code. > > http://suicide.moddr.net/ > > > -- > Olga > http://www.ungravitational.net > http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
