By now most of us have either watched the live stream of the Facebook press conference yesterday or sifted through the recap blog posts today (Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and All Facebook have some nice recaps and follow up interviews). While the revamped “Groups” are pretty exciting for focusing and improving conversations on Facebook’s social graph […]
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Facebook’s Arrogance
I spent the morning reading up on the details of the new features Facebook announced at their annual F8 developers’ conference. The new features include: Social Plugins, which allow websites to add Facebook-style social interaction; the Open Graph Protocol, a way to let Facebook users add external Web pages to their profiles and to provide […]
A Social Web that is Age Blind
Usually every couple of weeks you will see articles cycling through Twitter with leads like “Gen Y flocks to Twitter as Facebook Ages” or some impressive stat about just how “old” social media users really are. It is interesting that the dominant age group on the social web is 35-44 year olds and not teens […]
Privacy Through Obscurity
There were lots of smart people wandering around during SXSW, but probably few as smart as Danah Boyd, Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, who blew minds with her opening keynote. The title of her presentation, “Making Sense of Privacy and […]