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Social Graphs - What do we own?

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

I watched the blog build up around Scoble’s ejection from Facebook with some amusement today. But its a good question, what parts of your social graph do you own?

Well thats easy, you own the edges that connect to you and your own node, nothing else. You most certainly don’t own all the contact information at the end of each edge (node=person, edge=relationship) which is why Scoble got kicked off Facebook for trying to grab all the other node information.

Dave Winer pitches in but he misses the point. Its not Scoble’s data, as Damien says more cogently than me.

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Those who can’t compete consort

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

I think it was Scott McNealy who said ‘Those who can’t compete, consort” when DEC, HP, Siemens, IBM and a host of others created the OSF to head Sun of at the pass in the late 80’s and early 90’s.  Well its the same old song with Google’s annoucement of its OpenSocial initiative. Suddenly its the world against Facebook.

Now, I’m no “according to Hoyle” Facebook defender but you have to smell a rat when the least open company in the world suddenly make a play for sharing all the data in world with its users.

Absolutely,  OpenSocial is a good idea, but lets follow it with OpenPageRank, OpenSearch and OpenGoogleDatabase.

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Facebook Backlash

Friday, October 5th, 2007

Via TechCrunch UK, this did make me chuckle. (Not Safe for Work!)

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Danah Boyd : Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Danah Boyd wrote this insightful piece on class divisions on FaceBook and MySpace. The Internet went mental and threw back a lot of unstructured abuse and uninformed comment. She in turn has written a response to the shit storm.

Go Danah!

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