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Facebook’s Paul Adams, on his momentary freeze at Cannes
Social Landmarks Around The World (based on check-in data aggregated by Facebook)
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Read morePREDICTION: Major Facebook Redesign Coming
Nothing will be sacred except for Timeline/profile pages. But everything else will get a massive facelift as Zuck tries to fix the mess than the homepage and a lot of the rest of the site experience has become to build energy pre-IPO.
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gowalla: Three years ago Gowalla’s journey began when I took a photograph of Lake Tahoe on my iPhone. I had just finished a phone call with my dad, and I wanted nothing more than to share that photo and place with him. Not just in a text message or status update sort of way, but […]
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Vijay Gurbaxani, a professor at the University of California, Irvine
5Qs w/ John Battelle
The entire 5Qs are good, but this is my favorite:
What’s Facebook’s greatest challenge with brands and publishers?
Facebook’s greatest challenge [with brands] is to create an environment where a brand feels like the brand is the platform for the conversation. Right now it’s all about Facebook, not the brand. Facebook is a super-important part of a brand’s strategy, but it’s not the strategy. The web is about people as opposed to documents. Facebook’s [other] greatest challenge is how it plays with the rest of the web. Look at the open graph and like graph. How does Facebook add value to the rest of the web in a way that doesn’t force the rest of the web into a Facebook framework? I don’t think there’s anybody who believes there won’t be a Facebook AdSense product that publishers can put JavaScript in the page and ads show up that use Facebook data. That’s coming. I’m sure they’re busy building it. The question is if publishers will have to use only that service. Is there a more elegant way for independent creators to leverage data from Facebook, and can we think about it differently? It’s not Facebook’s data, it’s the consumer’s data. Let’s say I come to a site and say here’s my token of data that says everything about me. I’ll get my version of ads, content and services. Maybe I’ll get an offer to become part of a reader panel. It’s based on me telling the publisher more of who I am. If I can do that with my Facebook data, that’s cool. Are they going to work in a way that encourages innovation and new ideas, or force everyone in an AdSense-like right rail experience?
(via Noah)
When I use Facebook I’m trading my data for their service. I’ve entered into this commerce perhaps unwittingly, but using the same mechanism humankind has known throughout our history: trading something of mine for something of theirs. So let’s guard our privacy by all means, but recognize this is a bargain and a marketplace we enter into. Consumers will grow more sophisticated about the nature of this trade, and adopt tools to manage the data they give up.
Edd Dumbill, Data is a currency (via infoneer-pulse)
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