F8 2011: Facebook's 7 Biggest Announcements From The Event. Facebook Boldly Annexes the Web - Ben Elowitz - Voices. The most confusing thing about the so-called “social Web” has been that it’s too often thought of as an entirely separate Web unto itself.
It’s as though Facebook and Twitter are different planets in the solar system — digital orbs that we can shuttle to and from with the flick of a click. And, sometimes, it’s almost as if they aren’t even in the same cyber-galaxy. Until today. That’s because Facebook today advanced its “Open Graph” integration with the rest of the Web, releasing a new set of media-oriented features, and finally tying its own planet inextricably to — if not outright annexing — the rest of the digital universe. Over the last several months, as a Beta partner in this initiative, it’s become clear to me that this is far more than just an end-user feature. What makes all this so Earth-shattering? And, in the process, Facebook is confirming the fact that it’s the new and undisputed “social operating system” on today’s people-centric Web.
Let’s look at the people. Prepare Yourselves: Facebook To Be Profoundly Changed. Kingsley Idehen - Google+ - What Facebook Can Teach Us about Bootstrapping Linked Data… Facebook Updates Open Graph, Lets You Share EVERYTHING You Do. How Facebook Ate the Web. There wasn't a lot of outright prophecy emerging from the Dreamforce conference three weeks ago, but Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff did say this: "Facebook is eating the Web.
And the Web is getting smaller now, and we're trying to get our heads around it, and we're seeing it in Arab Spring. " What this means is that Facebook is not a true citizen of the Web (despite its address), but an agent of revolutionary upheaval, upsetting the dictatorial establishment. This from a company whose own name ends in .com. Well, that didn't take long, did it? Earlier today, my colleague David Strom demonstrated the similarities between the Facebook of today and the AOL, or "America Online" as it was once known, of 20 years ago. The problem is that the Web, from the perspective of business, never really took AOL's place. Facebook offers businesses its own brand of access and indeed, a better branding tool.
Facebook's perceived value to businesses has nothing really to do with its being a social network. It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short. 25 September 2011 When you own a domain you’re a first class citizen of the web.
A householder and landowner. What you can do on your own website is only very broadly constrained by law and convention. You can post the content you like. The New Facebook: 3 Major Implications. After the emergence of Google Plus this year, many people were wondering if Facebook had finally met its match.
Maybe that's so, but Facebook has upped the ante over the past couple of weeks. It has significantly scaled up the amount of information it tracks about you - and many millions of other people. The once humble status update field has been expanded to include 5 types of "life events. " You now automatically share data about what you're reading or listening to. There are more ways to follow and filter people. Facebook Timeline.