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Egypt. With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology. The following correction was printed in the Guardian's Corrections and clarifications column, Wednesday January 16 2008 The US intelligence community's enthusiasm for hi-tech innovation after 9/11 and the creation of In-Q-Tel, its venture capital fund, in 1999 were anachronistically linked in the article below.
Since 9/11 happened in 2001 it could not have led to the setting up of In-Q-Tel two years earlier. I despise Facebook. This enormously successful American business describes itself as "a social utility that connects you with the people around you". But hang on. Why on God's earth would I need a computer to connect with the people around me? And does Facebook really connect people? Facebook appeals to a kind of vanity and self-importance in us, too. It seems, though, that I am very much alone in my hostility. All of the above would have been enough to make me reject Facebook for ever. But Thiel is more than just a clever and avaricious capitalist. 1 We will advertise at you.
Tools, Models and Ideas for Building a Bright Green Future: Google's Open Social: An Opportunity for Personal Data Portability. "The web is better when it's social. " - Google The latest Big Thing from Google is the company's collaboration with social network platforms to create Open Social, which provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create apps that access a social network's friends and update feeds. It was a big deal when Facebook, the second largest social network platform after Myspace, launched a robust API that allowed any programmer or company with a cool idea for an application to run within Facebook to build and launch it.
Google's insight was that you could create a standard API that many social sites could adopt, so that developers could build applications to work across platforms. Still, Google leverages the open Internet to feed its coffers, and Open Social is clearly about business. The history of the Internet has been an evolution of better, more innovative ways to connect people in communities and markets. How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free.