To Facebook the answer must be no. I am very familiar with the Friendfeed API, so when I saw the presentation today by Bret Taylor, who is now one of the leading guys at Facebook, it felt very familiar. They design clean and simple APIs. This one is no exception. I would be playing with it right now except for two things: 1. My programming environment doesn't have a JSON serializer or deserializer. 2. This is the problem with corporate platforms and the standard bodies that help them achieve their goals. Anyway, once you get past the political stuff, Bret and his guys implement a nice API. Watching his presentation I was struck with an idea. The actual Bill Gates figures in this story. So now we know what Zuckerberg's megalomania is, and he's brilliant, and hired the right guys (the FF team) to make it happen. Facebook Open Graph: What it Means for Privacy. At Facebook's F8 Developer Conference today, the company fleshed out its plans to become the social center of the web.
With the new Open Graph API and protocol and the ability to integrate websites and web apps within your existing social network, the platform will become more robust than ever before. The potential for this new technology is great — which is why partners like Yelp, Pandora and Microsoft have already jumped on board. But what does all of this interconnected data mean for user privacy? Privacy has always been a bit of a thorny issue for Facebook and its users.
In November of 2007, Facebook's Beacon advertising experiment resulted in a class-action lawsuit, and Facebook's big privacy overhaul in December provoked immediate criticism. Now that sites and apps can better integrate directly with Facebook in more than just a tangential way, the potential for privacy issues grows substantially. What Is Changing? Facebook is also getting rid of its Facebook Connect branding. Facebook’s ambition. Ambition. It’s the one word that kept coming up in conversations I had around the halls today at Facebook’s F8 event. Whenever I heard that word it was clear we were talking about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook. Compared to last week’s weak moves by Twitter, where its CEO barely even announced anything, yesterday’s moves by Facebook were huge. OK, I heard another few words: “Visionary.” “Scary.” “Huge.” “Unbelieveable.” “Blown away.” “Zuck has balls.” or “Facebook has balls.”
“Big moves.” Heck, listen to David Kirkpatrick, who worked for Fortune for more than 20 years and just finished a book, Facebook Effect, about Facebook. Listen to the words he uses: “This is not just another company, it is a transformational phenomenon.” “It is really great, but it is really scary in some ways too.” By the way, after I talk with David I talk with quite a few other movers and shakers in the tech press in that video so you can get a sense of how we all reacted to the news.
These are legitimate concerns. How Facebook's Newest Feature Could Change the Internet - Busine. Did Facebook just conquer the Web? Once a mere online yearbook, Facebook has recently grown to become the most trafficked domain on the Internet. But that was just the prelude. The next chapter starts this week, with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announcing a new application that could plant Facebook plug-ins on every square inch of the Internet and let publishers share and collect the public data of each user.
"Facebook is basically going to be the Web," wrote Slate tech columnist Farhad Manjoo on Twitter. Here's the change you'll notice: websites like Yelp and Slate and CNN will start dropping social "plug-ins" -- little Facebook widgets -- into their sites. This way, you can see what your friends have read and liked. But wait, there's more. Facebook will allow website developers to collect and use our information when we connect to a site. What does this mean for privacy? What does it mean for websites and advertisers? Zuckerberg thinks public information is the new "social norm.
" Facebook : de la nécessité de protéger ses données "relationnell. Pourquoi je n’utiliserai plus Facebook. Jusqu’à présent, Facebook était un « réseau social » qui permettait à ses utilisateurs de se relier entre eux en « devenant amis » pour ainsi partager et publier des informations, des liens et des contenus. Certes, si on publiait sa vie privée sur facebook, on pouvait ensuite s’en mordre les doigts et commencer à se poser des questions : « ma vie privée est-elle menacée par facebook ? », « faut-il instaurer un droit à l’oubli pour protéger les jeunes de leur utilisation de facebook ? » J’ai déjà décrit ce que j’en pensais. Souvent les questions posées vis-à-vis de facebook sont mal fondées, et reposent d’une part sur un manque de connaissance des technologies web sous-jacentes, et d’autre part sur une incompréhension des pratiques sociales de la notion de « vie privée » ou de privacy en anglais, et sa perception.
J’ai trouvé jusque là qu’il n’y avait pas grand mal à être inscrit sur facebook. Le nouveau facebook Quelles sont les conséquences ? Centralisation, contrôle → censure Que faire ? Le plan de Facebook pour conquérir le monde | slate. Vos sites préférés sont désormais tous connectés à Facebook. Sur le site de streaming Pandora, quand vous écoutez une chanson, vous pouvez maintenant appuyer sur le bouton «j'aime» (ou like, en anglais), avertissant ainsi tous vos amis Facebook de votre dernière découverte musicale.
Idem pour un film sur IMDb, un restau sur Yelp, un article sur CNN.com, des cosmétiques Sephora, un jeans Levi's, et des dizaines d'autres produits disponibles sur le Web, y compris tous les articles jamais publiés sur Slate.com[et aussi sur Slate.fr: regardez... au bas de cet article, NDLE]. Ces sympathiques petits boutons « j'aime » n'ont l'air de rien comme ça, mais ne vous y fiez surtout pas. Ce sont en fait les prémices du nouveau super plan imparable de Facebook pour ficher la totalité du Web, et il y a de fortes chance pour que dans les années qui viennent, ils s'avèrent une aide précieuse pour aider le réseau social à remodeler le Web à son goût.
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