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. 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. If you use a paid-for web service at someone else’s domain you’re a tenant. When you use a free web service you’re the underclass. The conclusion here should be obvious: if you really care about your site you need to run it on your own domain. But it’s no longer that simple. Anyone who’s ever run a website knows that building the site is one thing, getting people to use it is quite another. Traffic used to come from three places: the real world (print advertising, business cards, word of mouth, etc.), search engines and inbound links.
Social networks have changed all that. Not so long ago you had to be on MySpace if you were an up-and-coming band. Many of the most valuable conversations around technology and many other fields happen on Twitter. 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. The big Facebook re-design has caused a predictable user backlash and media frenzy. Here's a quick summary of what's changed: A new Subscribe button, allowing you to follow people you aren't friends with, plus filter the amount of information you get from current friends. What does all of this mean? 1. The News Ticker has already become a constantly streaming list of updates from your friends and people you subscribe to. What this means to you, as a Facebook user, is that you'll need better ways to filter out the noise.
Facebook Timeline.