Facebook and the "Social Graph" 200
itwbennett writes "Peter Smith is blogging about day 1 of the Facebook F8 conference and Mark Zuckerberg's vision for Facebook, which, as it turns out, is somewhat confusing: 'Zuckerberg clearly sees Facebook as a service. Facebook Connect (the name) is going away and being replaced by the Facebook Platform. "Share on Facebook" buttons are being replaced with "Like on Facebook" buttons. And Comcast is now called Xfinity. ... What does it all mean to the end user? There's a new API to fetch data from Facebook more easily, which sounds great, if only I could figure out why I'd want to do that. The overall tone of the keynote was that Facebook was serious business and they were going to build the Social Graph, a vast network of connections between people and the things they like. Zuckerberg was a man with a mission.'"
Re:and again.... (Score:5, Informative)
Facebook's first round of venture capital funding ($US500,000) came from former Paypal CEO Peter Thiel. Author of anti-multicultural tome 'The Diversity Myth', he is also on the board of radical conservative group VanguardPAC.
The second round of funding into Facebook ($US12.7 million) came from venture capital firm Accel Partners. Its manager James Breyer was formerly chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, and served on the board with Gilman Louie, CEO of In-Q-Tel, a venture capital firm established by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1999. One of the company's key areas of expertise are in "data mining technologies".
Do you really *think* they're THAT concerned with your security, given the situation?
Re:and again.... (Score:3, Informative)
Both with Privacy AND with security.
I mean, from a business standpoint, yes, facebook is great for drumming up marketting, developing business, and maintaining relations with clients. However, just yesterday we ran across this [wikipedia.org] little gem. A worm that targets facebook and other social networking sites specifically.
Surprise Surprise, one our sales ladies got infected. Now that we've cleaned it off we still have to assess the damage. She could have spread it to the rest of the sales team, her clients, the CEO (who is on her friends list)... But of course she isn't going to give US any information, that'd be invading her privacy.
I know, you guys are going to say "Tell her to warn others and let her deal with it then", which is what we did, but obviously if she doesn't adequately deal with it, the problem is going to circle back to us with other sales people.
Re:and again.... (Score:3, Informative)
That's the biggest peeve I have with facebook/myspace, et al. They don't take the end users' security into consideration.
I am an avid Facebook user (5-10+ updates a day kinda guy), but that quote from your post is exactly why I never say or do anything on there I care about the public knowing. I'm fully aware that nothing I do on there is truly private, and I use it with that in mind.
Re:Great. (Score:5, Informative)
I ended up AdBlocking a bunch of facebook URLs to solve this. Annoying, but it did work. The ones I blocked:
http://connect.facebook.net/* [facebook.net]
http://www.facebook.com/connect/* [facebook.com]
http://www.facebook.com/plugins/* [facebook.com]
http://www.facebook.com/ajax/connect/* [facebook.com]
http://www.facebook.com/connect.php/js/FB.SharePro/ [facebook.com]
http://api.facebook.com/restserver.php?* [facebook.com]
(PS: why does slashcode convert text-only URLs into hyperlinks inside a blockquote?)
Re:The Newest and Social Way to Exploit the Masses (Score:4, Informative)
You don't use NoScript, do you? Because if you did, you'd see that his "dream" is Google's reality. google-analytics.com is *everywhere*.
Re:Haters (Score:3, Informative)
The value of a social network is in the users. Myspace was the indisputed king of social networks, and drove people away. Facebook replaced them.
Personally, I don't want or care about a dislike button. I'm pointing out that Facebook is constantly going in the opposite direction of what users want. Sooner or later, they will drive people away and someone else will replace Facebook, just as Facebook replaced Myspace.