Facebook Places
Facebook cements location, Facebook Places as a key feature of future developement; http://eicker.at/FacebookLBS
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Facebook Single Sign-on
Facebook revamps the mobile log-in process with Facebook Single Sign-on, opens location APIs; http://eicker.at/SingleSignOn
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TC: “Today at its mobile event, Facebook has just announced that it’s opening up its Write API and Search API to Facebook Places, in addition to the Read API that launched earlier this year. – So what does that mean? Facebook first launched its location APIs at its Places event in August, but it was split into two main sets of functionality: Read and Write access. Most developers only had access to the former – with a user’s permission, a third-party app could pull in Places data from Facebook. But only a handful of large partners had access to the Write functionality, which lets a user syndicate updates the other direction (for example, a check-in on SCVNGR also updates your Facebook Places status).”
TC: “This is a button that third-party developers can use to give users a one-click way to sign on. ‘It removes the need to ever have to type a username or password again,’ Tseng noted. This is all about ‘saving you time from things you have to do, to the stuff you want to do,’ he continued. – This is something that Zuckerberg has been talking about for a while now. And back in August, CTO Bret Taylor noted that they have a team called “Platmobile” working on this very thing. – Tseng noted that implementing this is just a few lines of code. In fact, it’s the same permission system that over a half million games and apps use today on facebook.com, he said. And with that, he invited people from Groupon and Zynga to talk about their experience implementing this.”
RWW: “Interoperability between social networks means that the social connections available are no longer scarce, and service providers must then compete based on quality and kind of service. Want the push notifications Foursquare offers from groups like the History Channel or the Independent Film Channel when you check-in near a point of interest they’ve annotated? Then use Foursquare; you don’t have to lose track of your friends on other networks when all the networks are tied into Facebook. Want the design elegance and collections of locations gathered into Trips that Gowalla offers? Then use Gowalla. You can still see where your friends are if they are using Foursquare instead. – Want to create a radically new place-based social networking experience? No longer will you need to convince potential users to leave their friends behind on more established networks and wander into your lonely wilderness. You’ll just offer them a new lens through which to view the world and their friends on other networks.”
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HTML5 Browser Compliance
W3C has released HTML5 browser compliance results. Believe it or not: IE9 outperforms even Chrome; http://eicker.at/HTML5
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Social Networks
McClure: How to take down Facebook. An open letter to the next big social network; http://eicker.at/SocialNetworks
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Pirates!
Arrington: If you have not started a company… you are no pirate and you are not in the club; http://eicker.at/Pirates
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Times Paywall III.
News Corp: The Times and The Sunday Times have achieved 105,000 paid-for customer sales to date; http://eicker.at/Times
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News Corp: “News International today announces that the new digital products for The Times and The Sunday Times have achieved more than 105,000 paid-for customer sales to date. – Around half of these are monthly subscribers. These include subscribers to the digital sites as well as subscribers to The Times iPad app and Kindle edition. Many of the rest are either single copy or pay-as-you-go customers. – In addition to the digital-only subscribers, there are 100,000 joint digital/print subscribers who have activated their digital accounts to the websites and/or iPad app since launch. – As a result, the total paid audience for digital products on The Times and The Sunday Times is close to 200,000 (allowing for some duplication in the digital customer sales number).”
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pC: “From a pre-paywall readership of 20 million unique monthly users, to a base of 105,000 cumulative reader payments in the last four months, The Times has encouraged just 0.5 percent of its online audience at most to pay. – Consider that only half of these subscribe, as opposed to pay per day, and you see that just 0.25 percent of The Times’ online audience have become regular customers. – It sounds ‘disastrous’, as the naysayers would put it. But then, The Times is not operating a freemium service, and it has made a grand, long-term strategic readjustment in its conception of the role of readers between its output and its income – from ‘visitors’ to ‘customers’…”
NYT: “Another question is what effect, if any, the pay walls are having on the print editions of The Times and Sunday Times. Paid circulation of the daily paper fell about 3 percent from June through September, to about 487,000, while sales of the Sunday paper rose by about half of 1 percent, to nearly 1.1 million.”
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Google Street View Deutschland
Google Street View startet in Deutschland. Zumindest startet Google Street View in Oberstaufen; http://eicker.at/Oberstaufen
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AA: “Google Street View vor dem Start in Deutschland: Die Marktgemeinde Oberstaufen (Oberallgäu) wird ab Dienstag, Punkt 10.30 Uhr, der erste Ort in Deutschland sein, der in dem umstrittenen Dienst zu sehen ist – noch vor Metropolen wie Berlin oder München. … In dem umstrittenen Google Street View-Projekt sieht Oberstaufens Bürgermeister Walter Grath ‘gar kein Problem’. In Oberstaufen – der Ort ist laut Aussage von Bürgermeister Grath ein klarer Befürworter des umstrittenen Internet-Angebots – wird am Dienstag eigens dafür eine symbolische Hochzeit gefeiert. Offiziell. Samt Google-Sprecher Kay Oberbeck und einer Hochzeitstorte.”
SZ: “Die von Datenschützern kritisierte Ansicht von Straßen und Privathäusern soll erst in den nächsten Wochen freigeschaltet werden. Nur in Oberstaufen im Allgäu ist schon die ganze Stadt zu sehen – auf besonderen Wunsch der Gemeinde, die hofft, damit mehr Touristen in den Ort zu locken. … Deutschlandweit hatten 240.000 Bürger Einspruch dagegen eingelegt, dass ihre Häuser in Google Street View zu sehen sein werden.”
SO: “Google Street View ist ein Internetdienst, bei dem sich Nutzer in Fußgängerperspektive durch die Straßen von Städten bewegen und Rundum-Panoramen der Straßenzüge betrachten können. Street View ist bei Datenschützern umstritten, weil es nach deren Ansicht private Details über das Wohnumfeld von Menschen verrät. Bis Jahresende will der Dienst mit Panorama-Ansichten von Straßen der 20 größten Städte Deutschlands aufwarten. Mehr als 244.000 Haushalte in den 20 Städten hatten beantragt, ihre Wohnhäuser in dem Google-Dienst unkenntlich zu machen.“
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Jarvis: “Germany, what have you done? – Street View is online in Germany and it includes – or rather, excludes – 244,000 addresses that Germans have demanded be pixelated. They have, in their word, demanded their Verpixelungsrecht. … In the land of Deutschnet… Germany has now diminished the public. It has stolen from the public. – This is not a matter of privacy. And don’t tell me it has a damned thing to do with the Nazis and Stasi; that’s patently absurd. If anything, the Stasi would have exercised their Verpixelungsrecht to obscure their buildings from public view, taking advantage of the cloak of secrecy the idea provides. That’s the danger of this. – This is an issue of publicness. These are public visions now obscured.“
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Social Commerce II.
The 5th C of community: social commerce besides content, conversation, connection, continuity; http://eicker.at/SocialCommerce
Gerrit Eicker 08:03 on 4. November 2010 Permalink |
TNW: “Obviously, today’s event cemented location/Places as a key feature of Facebook. Expanding the ability to check-in on Android is an especially good move for Facebook at this point, as is the opening up of its Places APIs to all developers. Before today, the Places platform was simply too limiting to show what it is capable of, and now we should start to get a taste of that potential (or not). … Facebook, for the foreseeable future, is dependent on Apple’s and Google’s location determination. – Of course, once Facebook has that, it then translates that to its own Places database (and/or compares it to the third-party check-in app that is feeding Places) or users can create the venue. This last part was a huge issue at smaller location startups, and Facebook said that it realizes that this will be a hurdle to get over with Places moving forward. … What Facebook will end up doing beyond today, we’ll have to wait and see, but it certainly sounded from my discussions that the wish lists is already quite long, and that Facebook expects that those future enhancements will allow it to dominate this space.“