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Posted on 07/28/2010 1:41:47 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Last week, Facebook announced that it had amassed 500 million users, a formable portion of the global Internet audience. But even as Mark Zuckerberg and company celebrates, others are busy trying to uproot Facebook's popularity by establishing a set of open standards to share Facebook-like features across the Internet.
Just like open standards for e-mail and the Web broke users free from proprietary closed networks of the early 1990s, so too could a new set of standards allow people to share their thoughts, photos and comments across the Internet, regardless of what social networking services they use, argued Evan Prodromou, head of open source microblogging software provider StatusNet, during the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), held in Portland, Oregon last week.
Open-source social, or "open social," networking services are not new. StatusNet has been running an open source implementation of its Twitter-like microblogging service for several years, called Indenti.ca. But no open-source service has gained Facebook- or Twitter-proportioned success.
Now, the developers behind such services are changing their pitch: Instead of stressing the open-source nature of their services and software, they are emphasizing how the interoperability of such offerings could free users -- and their data -- from the locks of any one social-networking service.
Prior to OSCON, a number of social-networking software developers gathered for an informal summit to discuss interoperability. They developed a simple test case to show how federation of social-networking services could share data.
In their example, a person uploads a photo of another person on some photo-sharing service, tagging the photo with the subject's name. The subject of that photo should automatically see the photo on his or her own preferred photo-sharing service.
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How long before FaceBook does a face plant ala MySpace?
I don’t think Facebook is dependant upon the “look at me” exhibitionism that MySpace revolved around.
When my mid-60’s Mom is on it a couple of times a week to chat with high school friends and far flung kin folk, I think it has a little more staying power.
Formable? Definition: to give a particular shape to : shape or mold into a certain state or after a particular model
or
Formidable? Definition: tending to inspire awe or wonder
it already is. it’s an internet ghetto.
Facebook has something that makes it very hard to overcome: General Acceptance. Just like Windows. At this point, even if a superior product comes along, it does not matter.
For all the hype, MySpace never had general acceptance. Only teeny bops were on it and Child Predators.
Facebook now has adults outnumbering teenagers.
Entire graduating classes are now on Facebook with people now able to connect to each other.
I read a story in Punjab of all places (from where the Sikhs come) of a graduating class from 1984 from an all girls school that was able to reconnect via Facebook. One way or the other, all 100 or so girls (now in their 40s) got on Facebook (sheer coincidence) and starting connecting with each other
I happen to like Facebook. I reconnected with several girlhood friends of mine and am very glad I did.
I like Facebook too. I was able to reconnect with people and I am also to meet people who might be interested in buying my novel.
Exactly. There are four generations of my family on it. A whole range of friends from different periods of my life have found me (or I’ve found them) on it. Deployed military friends/family use it, and young cousins find their social legs with it.
Don’t think it’s going anywhere just yet.
The thought of even more people sharing “their thoughts, photos and comments across the Internet” makes my heart sink. The vast majority of the stuff on Facebook is embarrassingly vacuous. Ditto Twitter.
I like facebook too. Our extended family is all over the country and some out of the country. It is a great way to stay connected. My 85 year old mother in law is on facbook, keeping in touch with her kids, grandkids and other senior friends and family. No more complaints about “ You never call”.
I like Facebook also. Its a great tool and has many benefits. That said. Don’t have 9 drinks and bring what is learned in FR to that forum. Everyone is not like minded.I like to rant a lot and Facebook could bring negative consequences.
When your mom is doing something, it is already uncool.
Facebook is dead, it just doesn’t know it yet.
One of these days somebody is going to make something almost exactly like FaceBook only it will give the user useful controls over layout and content and that will be the end of FB. That really is my biggest beef with the site, they keep adding stupid features and subtracting good features and the level of user control is just about zero.
Let your heart be merry. Facebook will be the engine that drives the next great political change in this country.
Entire political movements are going to be organized around Facebook. The only question is will Facebook be able to keep up, or will another social networking service spring up to replace it.
Conservatives need to keep up or be left behind on this one.
It think that’s the point. Facebook doesn’t have to be “cool” to survive. My Mom isn’t leaving it to go to something more “cool”, neither is anyone of her friends and family of that generation. They found something that works and they will stick with it.
Cool is over rated as a marketing tool. Out of 300 million Americans probably only 50 million actually care about being cool and only 25 million of them actually succeed. So being uncool leaves you a potential market of 250 million. That is the lesson of Billy Joel.
I don’t think it’s any less a look-at-me website than MySpace was. People still post tons of pictures of themselves on there on their Facebook pages; they still promote all their events and projects on there. They are still shouting, “Look at me!”
Facebook is a bit more exhibitionistic than the original MySpace in my view. In MySpace (before they started copying some Facebook features), the bulletin section used to be the only way to broadcast an announcement to all your friends. Other than that, if you wanted to see what your friends were up to, you had to make the effort to go to each of their pages to ‘see’ them.
With Facebook, you need go no further than your own Facebook home page to view this whole circus of everyone’s status updates and newly posted photos pouring down your “wall”. I think it’s intrusive in a way that MySpace wasn’t. Everyone is all up in everyone elses’ business. That’s the whole point of the site.
I think the grannies were just late catching on and Facebook was taking off at about the time Granny figured out what social networking is. If there was only MySpace, I think Granny would be on MySpace now. That’s muh theory.
Sluts on Farmville!!
nothing they do can't be done by someone else sitting in their basement.
They will be bankrupt within 10 years mark my words.
And yet I still get spam email from classmates.com trying to separate me from my money.
If you are insinuating, in a condescending manner, that I don’t keep up, I have accounts on Facebook and Twitter and try to check my issues a couple of times a day. People I don’t even know want to be my friends. Not. All that said, most of it is embarrassingly vacuous, adolescent, and badly written. You take care of your heart, I’ll take care of mine.
I think you are way overstating the number of those who succeed!
I was in a generous mood.
Sounds like a great idea. Friends of friends you have on Facebook might be interested in buying it.
I have a Facebook page but rarely use it. Although it’s not that much different, I do like reading Twitter. Its a good way to read about breaking news and reaction. I can isolate the accounts I follow by category. There’s the search “hashtag” #tcot (top conservatives on twitter), used to filter in random comments /updates from conservatives that have added the #tcot tag to their tweets.
I’m not overly fond of Facebook, but it’s sucked me in. What I don’t like is the sneaky way it changes its privacy settings so you have to keep monitoring them to make sure your information isn’t being shared more widely than you want it to be - and the way it keeps trying to infiltrate other applications I use on the internet.
Unfortunately I can’t bring myself to quit because Facebook serves a purpose I can’t seem to duplicate with anything else: it allows me to stay just barely in touch with people I don’t really care to call or email but don’t want to lose track of entirely - in short, “Facebook friends.” Well played, Facebook.
In terms of sheer volume of voyeurism, you are probably right. However, I'm not sure the Granny demographic would be catching on to MySpace unless MySpace had become a bit more like Facebook. Although it is possible to make one's entire Facebook profile public, many if not most people do not choose to do so; this, combined with the news feed, keeps Facebook exhibitionism, unlike that of MySpace, largely confined to one's own social network (or to those close to it). Therefore, at the end of the day it is still less of a grab at a piece of the public stage than a means of keeping in touch, even if "keeping in touch" on Facebook entails a degree of impropriety once confined to family and close friends, but television and government schools had already killed off Western sense of propriety decades earlier.
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