Tag Archives: Facebook
My new mobile venture
[disclosure: this post is about my new mobile venture, so it may be a bit subjective here and there 😉 ] Its been really quiet over here lately. Entirely my fault, I have been extremely busy starting up a new … Continue reading
Posted in Android Mobile OS, API, Facebook, iPhone, Mobile, PinkelStar, Twitter
Tagged Android, API, developers, Facebook, iPhone, mobile apps, PinkelStar, Twitter
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With privacy there is no middle ground
Lots of posts the past few days about the current Facebook privacy issues. Mark Zuckerberg is under attack. Not just for the latest Facebook update, but also personally for an alleged chat session that suggests he isn’t very respectful towards … Continue reading
The web needs to be bigger than Facebook
I’ve thought a bit about the announcements that Facebook has just made to make the entire web ‘social’. GigaOm has a good writeup about that here. On the surface their attempt at socializing the web fits a transformation of a … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, privacy, user centric web
Tagged Facebook, identity, privacy, user centric web, web 2.0 business model
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Google Buzz: 2 years ago
2 Years ago I wrote a blog post entitled “Dear Yahoo, Microsoft and Google mail, forget Facebook, start innovating”. Facebook was coming up strong (still is), giving headaches to everyone. And it occurred to me (and other, smarter people, like … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Google, social networks, user centric web
Tagged Facebook, Google, Google Buzz, social networks, user centric web
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An open letter to Mark Zuckerberg
Dear Mr. Zuckerberg, You are the CEO of one of the most fastest growing and remarkable companies in the world. You’ve created a place where 350 million people get together online and have a great time. A place where 350 … Continue reading
Posted in Alexander van Elsas, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
Tagged Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, open letter, privacy
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To be free we need to break free of web 2.0 thinking
You’re meeting someone at a party for the first time. He introduces himself to you. “Hi. I’m Tim Eastwood. I’m 29 years old, live in San Francisco. I’m married to Laura, have 3 children Joe, James, and Jenny.” During the … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, privacy
Tagged business models, Facebook, identity, privacy, web 2.0
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Building a People-Centric web is a fight for a lost cause
A number of posts drew my attention this week. First, 2 respectable media outlets explain us that the Facebook exodus has started. While I am not a big fan of Facebook (its their business model I don’t like), both the … Continue reading
About leveraging the Facebook platform successfully for your business
Yesterday I read a post by Jesse Stay entitled “Hey businesses, you’re using Facebook wrong”. Let me start off by saying I have a lot of respect for the author. I think Jesse is right about the power that Facebook … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, user centric web, web 2.0
Tagged business, Facebook, revenues, user centric web, web 2.0 business model
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On Facebook, status updates, retweets, and the universal law of signal versus noise
Maybe we should consider to rename this ‘social media’ era into the ego broadcasting era. That thought struck my mind when reading a WSJ post entitled ‘How Facebook ruins friendships’. The author discusses her fatigue with friends that send her … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, signal versus noise, status updates
Tagged Facebook, retweet, Robert Scoble, status updates
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The lock-in of Facebook takes away our freedom
Facebook is quickly becoming the biggest platform in the world. I have a serious problem with that. I don’t mind Facebook becoming a successful and profitable platform. I do mind that their current scale lets them dictate what the web … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, walled garden
Tagged Facebook, freedom, Friendfeed, Google, social networks, walled garden
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The difficulty I have with privacy controls on Facebook
I’m not a regular user of Facebook. I’ve joined a long time ago, have given it a few tries and then stopped using it. There are many reasons I don’t use it. I’ve written a post a long time ago … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, on-line advertisement, privacy, Social Advertisement
Tagged business model, Facebook, on-line advertisement, privacy, SocialAds
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Calling BS on the Real-Time Web
The tech world is full of the real-time web. Google seems to have missed it, Twitter is on top of it but sucks at indexing it, Friendfeed is the aggregation king, and Facebook might get there by copying Twitter and … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, interaction, real-time web, Twitter
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Why the iPhone will never be the biggest money generating platform
Tomi Ahonen has written a very long post about the history of mobile phone development in Europe and the United States. Tomi is a well known authority in the Mobile space and is the author of the well known Communities … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, iPhone, Mobile Internet
Tagged business model, Facebook, iPhone, mobile data, Tomi Ahonen
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Everybody loses in the battle over our online identity
Facebook announces user names. It generates a lot of buzz on Techmeme. TechCrunch reports the obvious (vanity), but Chris Messina is the only one that is actually analyzing what Facebook is doing and what impact it can have on our … Continue reading
Social Media is bound by our human limitations
The definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia is: Social media is content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share … Continue reading
Posted in Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, social media, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged Facebook, Friendfeed, Google, human behavior, Louis Gray, Robert Scoble, social media, social networks, web 2.0
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The fundamental problem of ‘owning’ user data
I do not often agree with Facebook, but I do agree with their decision to make privacy settings of their users more important than opening up the vast amount of data they track to 3rd party developers. Marshall Kirkpatrick writes … Continue reading
Posted in business model, Facebook, freedom, privacy, social networks, web 2.0
Tagged business model, Facebook, privacy, social networks, web 2.0
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Status update: the future of the web is here!
/rant on I read a number of posts in the last week that seem unrelated but ended up making me think about this social media circus we are in. Unless you are deaf, blind, and have been sitting on a … Continue reading
The Facebook business model is the root cause of a lack of transparency
Mark Zuckerberg just announced that Facebook will revert back to the old terms of service as too many people complained about the new ones. I think it is a honorable that Facebook is retracting a pretty bad plan. It is … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement trap, business model, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
Tagged advertisement trap, business model, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
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Mark Zuckerberg is answering the wrong question, and we fell for it again
There has been quite a bit of uproar about Facebook changing their Terms of Service. Unfortunately, no one is asking the right question, thus letting Mark get away with answering the wrong one. The section that created this uproar reads: … Continue reading
Posted in advertisement, business model, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
Tagged advertisement, business model, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy
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