ball sack, facebook going open source doesn't change a god damn thing, the problems about identity, privacy and how my data is used still remain: http://tinyurl.com/54vxxg
1 year, 6 months ago.
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still means all your stuff lives on facebook and not the web. I'd like to see an open social googlebot crawl the system ...
This will surely be an interesting development. Given that FB shut down Google's attempt to pull out social data something rotten only a day or two ago I can't still help but wonder if FB ever really have an intent to open things up.
@constantine: so given that you don't want "no charge" services like opensocial (well they gotta derive income from somewhere) does this mean you would be happy to actually pay a third party to manage your identity for you?
It is FB's most recent volley back to Google. In the the grand scheme of things it just means we are truely on the path to an open social network layer. i.e. Reed's law intersecting with Isenberg's Stupid Network - Intelligence is at the edge and at the edge there is just intelligent bio mass.
Anyway read the play book http://tinyurl.com/4jyzmo, or Chris Messina has a nice write up <http://tinyurl.com/58hgbv>. BTW: Hal Varian, one of the authors, is Google's chief economist.
Digital Identity is getting sorted slowly. On Privacy there is a lot of hand waving but IMHO sorting out how Privacy Controls will be handled universally is the most critical missing component to make both an Identity and therefore an Open Social Networking Layer work.
@barneyc I don't have to pay someone to manage my digital shadow. I can, and where feasible, should do that myself ;)
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still means all your stuff lives on facebook and not the web. I'd like to see an open social googlebot crawl the system ...
1 year, 6 months ago by atmasphere
Nowhere in that article do they make a mention about those problems you alluded to (although they very clearly exist)
1 year, 6 months ago by edythemighty
This will surely be an interesting development. Given that FB shut down Google's attempt to pull out social data something rotten only a day or two ago I can't still help but wonder if FB ever really have an intent to open things up.
1 year, 6 months ago by barneyc
open social isn't any better, i don't want my data to be crawled, analyzed and indexed by one company who then charges people to display ads to me.
1 year, 6 months ago by constantine
The MS tactic: Use our warez, but we reserve the right to break backwards compatibility? :D
1 year, 6 months ago by edythemighty
@constantine: so given that you don't want "no charge" services like opensocial (well they gotta derive income from somewhere) does this mean you would be happy to actually pay a third party to manage your identity for you?
1 year, 6 months ago by barneyc
It is FB's most recent volley back to Google. In the the grand scheme of things it just means we are truely on the path to an open social network layer. i.e. Reed's law intersecting with Isenberg's Stupid Network - Intelligence is at the edge and at the edge there is just intelligent bio mass. Anyway read the play book http://tinyurl.com/4jyzmo, or Chris Messina has a nice write up <http://tinyurl.com/58hgbv>. BTW: Hal Varian, one of the authors, is Google's chief economist. Digital Identity is getting sorted slowly. On Privacy there is a lot of hand waving but IMHO sorting out how Privacy Controls will be handled universally is the most critical missing component to make both an Identity and therefore an Open Social Networking Layer work. @barneyc I don't have to pay someone to manage my digital shadow. I can, and where feasible, should do that myself ;)
1 year, 6 months ago by fin