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@FilmnoirKate Out of Gas is a favorite of mine. Our Mrs Reynolds and Jaynestown are up there too.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, April 22, 2010 @ 11:06 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
ReadWriteWeb has a great first example of some of the issues with Facebook’s Open Graph implementation. It’s trivial to create a “Like” button for any arbitrary url, and the user has no visual feedback to verify that the button will “Like” what they expect it to. Even worse, while the record of the erroneous “Like” can be deleted from your news feed, it remains connected to your account within the Open Graph API.
Not good.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, February 2, 2009 @ 08:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This title is a little bit more incendiary than I think it needs to be, but it looks like Facebook has finally found its business model. We all knew this is direction they would end up going, but it doesn’t mean you have to happy about it.
Honestly, as long as they’re not giving away my contact info/identity and it is limited to anonymized demographics, and not just linked to user accounts with only the name blanked out (which can easily be matched up) I don’t care that much. When they start providing all the info about me and linking it to me, then things get ugly fast.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:46 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
OK, this video from 2006 may be a little overblown, but conspiracy theories aside there are some questions worth asking here. Particularly when you consider the connections the author draws between some of Facebook’s investors. We’re not talking just about marketing firms here, we’re talking about CIA and DARPA. It’s a little tin-foil hat, but come on, in a country where something like the Total Information Awareness Project can be proposed by our defense department, anything is possible.
The video is well done so I will forgive the author the constant errors of referring to Facebook as “the Facebook” and asking the audience “do you have a Facebook?” 
Bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, March 10, 2008 @ 09:07 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
If you use Twitter at all you would have heard about the disaster that was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote at SXSW. If you missed all the hoopla, here is a nice summary with a priceless photo of the audience at the bottom. 
Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, February 3, 2008 @ 11:08 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Nick Carr has a pretty good article on the problems being faced by both Facebook and Google when it comes to monetizing the social networking space. A lot of us have been skeptical of ads on social networking sites, but what’s interesting here is how Carr concludes Beacon was an act of “deliberate risk-taking, if not desperation.”
I’m not sure I’d go that far, but he’s not far from the mark even then.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 @ 12:24 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Wow, this is awesome. Having both Google and Facebook commit to portable data is a huge step.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, December 14, 2007 @ 11:12 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison
Will Larson has prepared a really excellent tutorial on building a Django application that will have both a web app and a Facebook app component to its interface.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, December 7, 2007 @ 08:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik
“[Bloggers] look at Facebook’s growing numbers, see the impressive trends, and conclude we don’t care about privacy or anything else Facebook does. This logic is flawed, of course - it’s sort of like saying any American who doesn’t renounce their citizenship and move to Canada agrees with President Bush.”
I’m so tired of new media people saying privacy is dead and that users are sheep. Most of that is because people in new media have as much an understanding of the average user as I have of what it’s like to be an astronaut or spy. We’ve got plenty of ideas about it, but in general we’re almost certainly wrong.
This post from Fred Stutzman, an academic who has been watching Facebook usage patterns since before it opened up to everyone, begins to poke some significant holes in the frankly bullshit theory that users don’t care about privacy and are just a bunch of sheep.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, December 6, 2007 @ 08:40 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Fred Stutzman, an academic who is an excellent resource for all topics regarding identity, also provides some of the best commentary regarding Facebook on the web.
In this article, he explains how Facebook was completely blindsided by the media coverage on Beacon, mostly due to Facebook’s inexperience with interacting with the media as a whole. A good read.
Bookmarked via Diigo on Sunday, November 25, 2007 @ 17:59 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Excellent post by Jason Calacanis on Facebook’s current advertising strategy.
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