right now, i could send out a whole bunch of tweets with crappy yfrog URLs
(that all return 404s).  to end users, again, it seems like yfrog is a bad
service.

i mean, you have good points - and i hear all of them - its not something we
are going to with for now, but i totally understand everything you're
saying.


On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Dewald Pretorius <[email protected]> wrote:

> Raffi,
>
> It's not about people using or not using rogue apps. It's about rogue
> apps poisoning the annotation data and ruining it for everybody.
>
> Rogue apps can continue to refresh their consumer keys with new
> accounts and OAuth app registrations, as soon as the one currently in
> use is suspended.
>
> Meaning, a new class of rogue app will emerge. Ones with the express
> purpose of getting their data into the namespaces.
>
> To name one example (with reference to Marcel's examples):
>
> - A rogue app that creates tweets with an affiliate link in the
> <amazon> namespace.
>
> On Apr 16, 3:31 pm, Raffi Krikorian <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > I'd strongly urge you to consider a more structured and controlled
> > > environment for annotations.
> >
> > > Ideally, I think an OAuth app must register a namespace, or subscribe
> > > to an existing namespace of another app, before it can create
> > > annotations in that namespace. And these registrations and
> > > subscriptions must be reviewed and approved before an app can actually
> > > contribute to a namespace.
> >
> > > Being as open and free as you currently have it, it's fertile soil for
> > > the poisoning of any namespace by any rogue or not-so-nice app.
> >
> > > It's better to plan and create the controls ahead of time. You're
> > > going to save everyone, including yourselves, a lot of effort and
> > > time.
> >
> > the same could happen right now - if somebody puts a $ before something,
> > stock twits may try to parse that as a stock market commodity.  i don't
> see
> > us (for some) enforcing anything on the namespaces, and will let the
> > community try to work it out.
> >
> > if there happens to be a rogue app, then users will stop using it.
> >
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