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  Gerrit Eicker 13:47 on 22. April 2010 Permalink | Reply

  NYT: “On Wednesday, Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Facebook, lifted the curtain on the company’s plan to spread itself across the Web. I previewed much of the company’s plan in a New York Times article on Monday. It includes a number of new features for users and developers that will make it easy for Web sites to provide ‘social experiences.’ And it will allow users to bring some of their interactions with Facebook friends to the sites they visit. … ‘We are making it so all Web sites can work together to build a more comprehensive map of connections and create better, more social experiences for everyone,’ Mr. Zuckerberg wrote in a blog post introducing the new features. … In a news conference after the speech, Mr. Zuckerberg said the new features would not change Facebook’s fundamental business model, which is based on revenue from ads on the company’s faceboook.com site. He said the plug-ins would not carry advertisements. But he said that as Facebook features spread across the Web, people’s connection to Facebook would strengthen, making the site, which has more than 400 million users, even more popular.”

  TC: “Today at Facebook’s F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out his plan to turn the Web into ‘instantly social experiences.’ – The building blocks to this super-social Web are Facebook’s new Open Graph and Social Plugins, which include new ‘like’ buttons everywhere on sites outside Facebook.com, auto-login capabilities for those sites without clicking on Facebook Connect, and even a Facebook social bar which includes several of these plugins plus Facebook chat (goodbye, Meebo).”

  VB: “Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized a different philosophy for how the Web should be organized today at the f8 conference in San Francisco. – ‘The Web is made of unstructured pages linked together. The open graph puts people at the center of the Web. It puts personal and semantic meaning behind the Web – I like this band. I am attending this event,’ he said. ‘We think what we will show you today is the most transformative thing we’ve done for the Web.’ … The company said it had rearchitected its entire structure around this strategy and was releasing a graph application programming interface. – With the new open graph approach, Facebook is launching a series of social plugins. Zuckerberg showed a demo of a CNN-Facebook integration. When a user logs on, they can see other friends or people who enjoyed the same content. There will also be a plug-in that shows the activity of friends on CNN’s website.”

  VB: “These ideas are pieces of what Facebook says is a fundamentally different thesis about how the web should operate. – ‘The web is at a really important turning point right now. Up until recently, the default on the web has been that most things aren’t social and most things don’t use your real identity,’ said chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. ‘We’re building toward a web where the default is social. Every application will be designed from the ground up to use real identity and friends.‘”

  RWW: “Is the New Facebook a Deal With the Devil? – Facebook blew peoples’ minds today at its F8 developer conference but one sentiment that keeps coming up is: this is scary. … This is so much new technology and it’s tied in so closely with one very powerful company that there is big reason to stop and consider the possible implications. There are reasons to be scared. The bargain Facebook offers is very, very compelling – but it’s not a clear win for the web. … This is why Facebook did a 180 degree shift on privacy last December: because it wanted to use that formerly private user data to make the web social. Privacy remains a major concern in the new scenario, but it also got a couple of nods in the use of iFrames on 3rd party sites and the big support for the OAuth password-free log-in system. … At first blush, it’s hard from a user’s perspective to find anything to criticize Facebook for in today’s announcements. Those criticisms will no doubt start to form once people wrap their heads around all the particulars. On principal, though, there’s going to be so much more Facebook around the internet that it feels like a real cause for concern. Centralization is a dangerous thing and Facebook is a young company that’s proven willing to break its contract with users in the past (see Facebook’s Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users).”

  TC: “I Think Facebook Just Seized Control Of The Internet. … In my opinion, Facebook still has a ways to go towards improving its actual site if it’s really going to be the long-term center of the web. (As in, the place you go to rather than Google.com.) But its claws for pulling in outside content are now razor-sharp. It’s going to be very hard for anyone to escape. – Over the next several days and weeks, we’ll undoubtedly hear why that’s a bad thing. Maybe it is. But maybe, if Facebook plays its cards right, the web will be a bit better because it will be more connected. Of course, that’s a lot of power for a still-private company to have. Let’s hope they know what they’re doing, and aren’t evil.“

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  Facebook: The New Internet? « Wir sprechen Online. 09:05 on 24. April 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Facebook Privacy III. « Wir sprechen Online. 09:25 on 12. May 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Identity War « Wir sprechen Online. 17:48 on 7. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Facebook: Global Leader « Wir sprechen Online. 07:37 on 8. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Facebook Credits II. « Wir sprechen Online. 12:36 on 21. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Facebook: the Social Utility « Wir sprechen Online. 07:56 on 27. July 2010 Permalink | Reply

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  Facebook USA: 1 in 4 Page Views « Wir sprechen Online. 23:20 on 19. November 2010 Permalink | Reply

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