Slide, the ever popular widget and social application maker, spent the last week repairing its Facebook-friendly Top Friends application after having seen it suspended by the social network abruptly late last month. Now it is back in business.
The problem attributed to the Top Friends application was a hole which allowed things like birthday, gender, and relationship data to be exposed to the editing whims of strangers. According to Elinor Mills of CNET, the exploit was first noted by a computer technician of Vancouver, Canada, and drove Facebook to take it down soon thereafter.
One of the most prominent application developers that specializes in fast and user-friend media sharing and the general enhancement of networking profiles, Slide’s trouble the past week has naturally been noted to great extent within the blog world. Has a 7-8 day checkout caused it any long-lasting bruises as a result? I venture to say no, for the simple fact that its software catalog is quite a bit larger than Top Friends alone.
Nonetheless, if any other stories raising privacy and security concerns come about in the near term, and Slide is determined to be the source, the business might sustain some losses on the user front. (Chief competitor RockYou likely shed no tears for its rival the past several days as it worked to right this clear wrong.)
Slide has made it a point in recent weeks to focus less on expanding its supply of social applications and more on the making the best of the bunch better still.
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