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Michael Fauscette

Another example comes from a much maligned agency that definitely needed a way to change its public brand, the Veterans Administration (VA). As a veteran myself I can tell you that the VA has a lot of bad "press" to try and overcome but happily it is embracing social tools to help with this battle. Joining the summit to talk about what the VA is doing with social collaboration was Brandon Friedman, Director of Online Communication, Department of Veterans Affairs.

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.

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/

Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epice

http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/

Spotted: Facebook’s Check-In Functionality And New “Places” Tab

This touch version of Facebook’s site is attempting to populate something called the “places_tab.” Unfortunately, Facebook hasn’t enabled that yet, so it throws the error. While that alone is interesting, much more interesting is what you find when you dig deeper into this JavaScript. Based on the code, this is what it seems that Facebook is about to launch: A mobile version of the site using the HTML5 location component to grab your location information from your phone. Once it does that, you’re taken to this new Places area of Facebook that presumably will have a list of venues around you.