Re:Dear Mark Zuckerberg
by hans on Thursday May 13, 2010 @07:03PM
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The fact is fB wants everyone to share everything: that's tons more open attention data they can mine for spam. This is why they NeVeR offer fine grained controls on sharing: its a business play.
They saw what twitter did with open friends lists and open posts and decided their privacy stuff was only holding them back, and heck why not ditch it? But just like Buzz they double crossed their users (what you thought was not shared is shared etc.).
This is the era of double crossing your users!
That Diaspora hailmary is a crock, wait for some talented ex-googlers or some such phenoms to really come up with an open social graph / plan / project. It will come ...
Re:Dear Mark Zuckerberg
by hans on Thursday May 13, 2010 @07:05PM
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In a way it shows they may not even understand their branding, b/c twitter is a totally different beast than fB, fB should strive to be personal and trustworthy not jacking your shxt.
They saw what twitter did with open friends lists and open posts and decided their privacy stuff was only holding them back, and heck why not ditch it? But just like Buzz they double crossed their users (what you thought was not shared is shared etc.).
This is the era of double crossing your users!
That Diaspora hailmary is a crock, wait for some talented ex-googlers or some such phenoms to really come up with an open social graph / plan / project. It will come ...