jtara - 8:47 pm on Feb 7, 2008 (gmt 0)

This has the potential to be horribly invasive.

Is this all done on your PC, or does it phone-home what it discovers about your habits?

In order to check activity outside of the browser, this is going to require the user to install a plugin with special permissions. Silverlight? Over my dead body will Silverlight go on any machine I own.

I hate Microsoft's use of .net plugins. Unfortunately, they are increasingly needed to access Microsoft services. Who knows what they are doing?

Bad timing. Check Slashdot today on Facebook giving partners inappropriate personal details:

[yro.slashdot.org...]

Researchers from the University of Virginia recently announced that in a study of the top 150 Facebook applications, more than 90% were given access to information that was not needed to function correctly. That Scrabble or Superpoke application you really like? Its developers get access to your religion, sexuality and home town.

Goona backfire.