Michael Fauscette.
Social CRM. Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative. Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg’s dreams of world domination.
It’s time the rest of the web ecosystem recognizes this and works to replace it with something open and distributed. Facebook used to be a place to share photos and thoughts with friends and family and maybe play a few stupid games that let you pretend you were a mafia don or a homesteader. It became a very useful way to connect with your friends, long-lost friends and family members. Even if you didn’t really want to keep up with them. Soon everybody — including your uncle Louie and that guy you hated from your last job — had a profile. Spotted: Facebook’s Check-In Functionality And New “Places” Tab. Code doesn’t lie. Over the past several weeks, there’s been a lot of speculation about Facebook’s location functionality.
At least part of that speculation can end now. We now know what Facebook is planning to launch with regard to location shortly, because it’s right there in their code. Specifically, it’s right there in the JavaScript on the touch.facebook.com version of the site.