The Age of Privacy is NOT over. An article recently popped up on ReadWriteWeb covering Mark Zuckerberg's interview at the Crunchies. Unfortunately it starts on entirely the wrong foot: it puts words straight into the Facebook CEO's mouth. Words that he never says. He doesn't say the age of privacy is over, damnit, so how can you claim that he does? That's what they call sensationalism, ReadWriteWeb. Looking at the number of retweets and its rapid proliferation throughout the web, I'd say it was very well-executed too -- but it's still lies, damned lies. This is the premise: Zuckerberg is interviewed by Michael Arrington (video after the jump). Unsurprisingly the two topics that pop up are Facebook Connect and the privacy changes in 2009. Now, he discusses privacy, but never at any stage does he suggest that The Age of Privacy is over.
Zuckerberg, for about 60 seconds between the third and fourth minute in the interview, talks about how the face of the Internet has changed. Still Shiny: 23 Apps We're Using One Month Later - ReadWrit. Here at ReadWriteWeb we see hundreds of new apps, scripts, plug-ins and doo-das every week. We review some portion of those. Many we get excited about. But few stand the test of time for even 30 days. Here are 23 apps we're still using a month or more after discovering them. We wrote a similar post last November ("30 Days Later: 22 Apps We're Still Using 1 Month After Finding Them") and can happily report that we're still loving almost all the services we wrote about then. If a service can make it past the 30-day mark, it has a good chance of sticking around for a while. 22 or 23 in a month is a pretty impressive number really, so go web innovators go!
Four members of our crew named services they have recently become real-life users of: Marshall Kirkpatrick, Sarah Perez, Frederic Lardinois and Phil Glockner (clockwise from top left in picture). Here's this month's list. Search-related. 1. 2. 3. Phil added this one to the list as well; it adds thumbnails to Google search results. 4. 5. 6. Facebook's New Privacy Controls Encourage Openness - ReadWr. Today, Facebook announced new privacy settings which let you selectively open up portions of your personal profile to everyone on the Facebook social network. As an alternative to the new "Public Profiles" (formerly called "Pages"), these additional settings allow you to pick and choose which parts - if any - of your private Facebook profile are available for anyone to see.
According to a company blog post, this means that now people won't need to friend you in order to view the content you want to make public. This recent update provides another option for public figures who want to connect with a wider audience as well as those folks who enjoy openly sharing their online activities. These privacy settings which can be used to make parts of your personal profile public should not be confused with Facebook's new "Public Profiles. " We examined Public Profiles last week and determined that they still had a number of issues before they would be useful to people with personal accounts. The Perfect Social Tool - ReadWriteWeb. 10 Future Web Trends - ReadWriteWeb. We're well into the current era of the Web, commonly referred to as Web 2.0. Features of this phase of the Web include search, social networks, online media (music, video, etc), content aggregation and syndication (RSS), mashups (APIs), and much more.
Currently the Web is still mostly accessed via a PC, but we're starting to see more Web excitement from mobile devices (e.g. iPhone) and television sets (e.g. XBox Live 360). What then can we expect from the next 10 or so years on the Web? As NatC commented in this week's poll, the biggest impact of the Web in 10 years time won't necessarily be via a computer screen - "your online activity will be mixed with your presence, travels, objects you buy or act with. " Also a lot of crossover will occur among the 10 trends below (and more) and there will be Web technologies that become enormously popular that we can't predict now. Bearing all that in mind, here are 10 Web trends to look out for over the next 10 years... 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Web Technology Trends for 2008 and Beyond: Update - ReadWriteWeb.