Mark Zuckerberg claims that Facebook has "missed the mark" on privacy controls and promises to deliver ones that easier to use.
Too little too late? What do you think?
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Web 3.0 Explained
Check this out...it's a page that attempts to explain Web 1.0 vs 2.0 vs 3.0. There are a lot of videos to watch as well.
What is 3.0?
1. Integration of all technologies
2. end of the desktop
3. smart phone -- truly smart (knows history and location)
4. Bing - Decision engine not just search engine
5. semantic web = human language processing /recognition / makes decisions and thinks like a "human being" (not machine returning lists of data).
6. http://www.wolframalpha.com/
7. Geo-spatial
8. total integration of data and personalization of info/data, inc my own history.
9. I don't need to think!!
What's the problem with this???
1. Big Brother! maybe not... it's 'just' data, algorithms, and aggregation technologies.
2. creepy? "it's only creepy because you're not used to it yet"
3. what happens when i need to think?
4. are we all "addicted" to technologies -- we can't really de-link
5. I'm impatient -- are we lazy and impatient? We won't wait and we don't want to process it ourselves.
6. what about human knowledge and human activity???
7.
2. end of the desktop
3. smart phone -- truly smart (knows history and location)
4. Bing - Decision engine not just search engine
5. semantic web = human language processing /recognition / makes decisions and thinks like a "human being" (not machine returning lists of data).
6. http://www.wolframalpha.com/
7. Geo-spatial
8. total integration of data and personalization of info/data, inc my own history.
9. I don't need to think!!
What's the problem with this???
1. Big Brother! maybe not... it's 'just' data, algorithms, and aggregation technologies.
2. creepy? "it's only creepy because you're not used to it yet"
3. what happens when i need to think?
4. are we all "addicted" to technologies -- we can't really de-link
5. I'm impatient -- are we lazy and impatient? We won't wait and we don't want to process it ourselves.
6. what about human knowledge and human activity???
7.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Facebook in Real LIfe
This is a really old video, but it pretty much summarizes the silliness of Facebook.
British people make it funnier.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
check out this visualization on what's private and what's public on FB (from 2005-2010):
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Mobile Usage
http://mashable.com/2010/04/22/mobile-social-networking-2/
I found this article that talks about how over half of mobile internet usage is on social networking sites. It's interesting because as more and more of our internet usage becomes mobile we are also greatly increasing our social networking usage showing its importance in our culture.
I found this article that talks about how over half of mobile internet usage is on social networking sites. It's interesting because as more and more of our internet usage becomes mobile we are also greatly increasing our social networking usage showing its importance in our culture.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics
Statistics
People on Facebook
- More than 400 million active users
- 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day
- Average user has 130 friends
- People spend over 500 billion minutes per month on Facebook
Activity on Facebook
- There are over 160 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups and events)
- Average user is connected to 60 pages, groups and events
- Average user creates 70 pieces of content each month
- More than 25 billion pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc.) shared each month.
Global Reach
- More than 70 translations available on the site
- About 70% of Facebook users are outside the United States
- Over 300,000 users helped translate the site through the translations application
Platform
- More than one million developers and entrepreneurs from more than 180 countries
- Every month, more than 70% of Facebook users engage with Platform applications
- More than 550,000 active applications currently on Facebook Platform
- More than 250,000 websites have integrated with Facebook Platform
- More than 100 million Facebook users engage with Facebook on external websites every month
- Two-thirds of comScore’s U.S. Top 100 websites and half of comScore’s Global Top 100 websites have integrated with Facebook
Mobile
- There are more than 100 million active users currently accessing Facebook through their mobile devices.
- People that use Facebook on their mobile devices are twice more active on Facebook than non-mobile users.
- There are more than 200 mobile operators in 60 countries working to deploy and promote Facebook mobile products
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Facebook Crowdsourcing make it easy to harras
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebooks_new_policies_make_harrassment_easy.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+readwriteweb+%28ReadWriteWeb%29
"North Africa has become a testing ground for a new sort of online harassment, and ReadWriteWeb is in the middle of it. Groups of Islamists are using the proliferation of Facebook's public pages to single out users they consider ideologically unorthodox (a broad category indeed by their definition) and then using Facebook's public ban process to stop their mouths."
"North Africa has become a testing ground for a new sort of online harassment, and ReadWriteWeb is in the middle of it. Groups of Islamists are using the proliferation of Facebook's public pages to single out users they consider ideologically unorthodox (a broad category indeed by their definition) and then using Facebook's public ban process to stop their mouths."
Your Data and You -- The Machine or the Cloud
1. On an average day, what data do you create (intentionally or unintentionally?
notes, email, txt, receipts, homework, financial data, to-do lists, comments, status updates, tags, photos, phone calls, videos, playlist; Google Analytics (log of your activity), usage stats, logins, card swipes, Bruin card, blog, cell tower you used, wifi network registered, cookies, search history, papers, tweets, facebook updates,
2. What interface do you use to input it? (word processing program? a diary? your phone?)
phones, computers, paper, card readers, camera,
3. Finally, where is that data stored?
servers everywhere, anywhere -- "the machine"; in your paper notebook; or on your harddrive. exception: Phone calls (probably not stored); sim chip; in our minds.
4. What's the relationship between you and your data? Ie, "extension" of you or your sensory capacities?
Marshall McLuhan: Famous definition of "media" as extension of ourselves.
ARE YOU YOUR DATA?! My sense of self is connected to interface/media that allow me to share and receive data.
Can you truly de-link? Would you want to?
MATRIX -- everyone is plugged in, omnipresent, omniscient, nothing can escape it, the world is code/data/information.
The Cloud = the Matrix = the "Machine"
notes, email, txt, receipts, homework, financial data, to-do lists, comments, status updates, tags, photos, phone calls, videos, playlist; Google Analytics (log of your activity), usage stats, logins, card swipes, Bruin card, blog, cell tower you used, wifi network registered, cookies, search history, papers, tweets, facebook updates,
2. What interface do you use to input it? (word processing program? a diary? your phone?)
phones, computers, paper, card readers, camera,
3. Finally, where is that data stored?
servers everywhere, anywhere -- "the machine"; in your paper notebook; or on your harddrive. exception: Phone calls (probably not stored); sim chip; in our minds.
4. What's the relationship between you and your data? Ie, "extension" of you or your sensory capacities?
Marshall McLuhan: Famous definition of "media" as extension of ourselves.
ARE YOU YOUR DATA?! My sense of self is connected to interface/media that allow me to share and receive data.
Can you truly de-link? Would you want to?
MATRIX -- everyone is plugged in, omnipresent, omniscient, nothing can escape it, the world is code/data/information.
The Cloud = the Matrix = the "Machine"
10 Reasons to Delete your Facebook Account
Just something I came across while reading the news today:
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Falleyinsider%2Fsilicon_alley_insider+%28Silicon+Alley+Insider%29
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
"The Internet of Things"
After watching Kevin Kelly's video on the next 5,000 days of the web I am very interested in how exactly it will become the "Internet of Things" The personalization aspect of the web that he talked about is obviously already happening with functions like iGoogle, and other various applications. However, I don't fully understand what he meant by being able to control individualized, real-world objects. (He gave the example of the plane seat) Can someone break it down a little more?
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