Facebook is like a phone provider that gives you all you want as long as you call people using the same provider. So, for a while, you tell all your friends to join. Then, they find another, better provider, and they leave, taking you with them. This is what caused the death of MySpace by [...]
You and your friends simultaneously leave posts on someone’s Facebook wall. Once you “reserve” a block of posts, change your profile pictures to a letter, spelling out anything you want. Let’s Letterbomb.
Well-designed systems NEVER store passwords. via France to require cleartext password storage – Boing Boing and Net giants challenge French data law
The last bubble burst really hit the people hard. And this time, because its had more time to inflate and because its built around user generated content, the failures will have a wider impact, again on people, and on the web. via Scripting News: Is it a bubble? It matters if we think it [...]
via An Introduction to the Federated Social Network | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
VISIT LINK: The Internet is for revolution – We must make it so that a country, if it wants to turn off Internet-enabled revolution, must turn off the Internet itself.
"Unlike a public offering of shares, this private offering to Goldman's clients doesn't obligate Facebook to come clean on its real profits. It doesn't have to submit to standard accounting practice, or indicate how well it's really doing or isn't doing. It gets to remain in the safe cloud of hype that protects all such [...]
Democracy is dead… happy holiday! :) VISIT LINK: Assange vs Zuckerberg (tags: Assange Zuckerberg wikileaks SNL facebook comedy humor funny fun parody manoftheyear time …)
Works with qoiob.com API VISIT LINK: dlvr.it – Posts blog RSS to twitter, Facebook etc (tags: twitter facebook rss tools socialmedia …)
Facebook Disconnect blocks all traffic from third-party sites to Facebook servers, but still lets you access Facebook itself. VISIT LINK: Google Chrome extension: Facebook Disconnect (tags: addon chrome browser extension extensions facebook google plugin privacy …)
No outrageous profits after seven years and half a billion users. VISIT LINK: Facebook is not worth $33,000,000,000 (tags: business economics facebook opinion socialnetworking social startup ipo value …)
Get Protected. Provides an independent and open tool for scanning your Facebook privacy settings. VISIT LINK: Reclaim Privacy (on Facebook) (tags: application bookmark bookmarklet bookmarklets browser community facebook facebook fb internet javascript privacy private scanner script web2.0 web tools tool tips socialnetworking socialmedia social security check checker datenschutz facebook-privacy reclaimprivacy …)
"Facebook's bait-and-switch on privacy and their overly complex settings cause many users to post messages intended for their friends to 'everybody'. That's the entire planet, for all time. This privacy-malfunction could have serious consequences if you're looking for a job, applying for college, or trying to get medical insurance." VISIT LINK: Openbook lets you search [...]
The Social Network. Directed by David Fincher. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, Rashida Jones. A story about the founders of the social-networking website, Facebook. VISIT LINK: You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies. (tags: documentary facebook fun film fb future inspiration movie movies network networking social socialmedia socialnetwork socialnetworking software [...]
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It! VISIT LINK: Foursquare is an endless string of meaningless buzzwords we just couldn't bring ourselves to transcribe (tags: 2010 article critique culture facebook foursquare fun funny humor humour internet journalism media mobile network networking news nytimes satire social socialnetworking socialnetworks socialmedia technology twitter web [...]