The industry continues to digest Facebook’s announcements this week, so I’ll focus the first set of links on that topic. I’ll have my own thoughts written up in the next few days and will post them here. But if you want my two line takeaway, it’s this: Facebook no longer can pretend to be a scrappy startup with a cool service everyone digs. Facebook has become a target, a powerful company to fear and to respect, much as Google became a few years back. That is not an easy burden to shoulder.
To the links:
Protect Your Privacy Opt Out of Facebook’s New Instant Personalization – Yes You Have to Opt Out (LibrariansByDay) Facebook has freaked out the librarians. Librarians!
Dear Facebook & Google: We Are Not Your Pawns – Enough With The Opt-In! (Daggle) Danny goes off and has the links to back him up.
Facebook May Not Be Skynet, but It Is Getting Smarter, and That’s Bad for Google (Ian Schafer via AdAge) “At a recent dinner, a group of friends of mine discussed whether or not Facebook’s market capitalization would ever eclipse Google’s. If this plan is successful, it may not be a question of if, but when.”
Facebook’s ambition (Scoble) “What we’re really scared about is another very powerful company is forming. One that we don’t yet fully trust.”
New Details of Facebook’s Location Plans Appear in Open Graph Protocol Docs (InsideFacebook) It’s increasingly clear that Facebook’s Open Graph is all about, well, everything.
One Graph To Rule Them All? (AVC) Fred questions the notion that Facebook owns the social graph. He’s invested in many alternative graphs. I agree – we will not, ultimately, instrument our entire life through one social service. I hope…
More Than Half of Mobile Internet Time Is Spent on Social Networks (Mashable) Continuing proof of my MOLRS thesis in action.
Dell Looking Glass tablet leaks: Tegra 2 coming your way in November (Engadget) Just one of many such devices that will challenge the iPad.
On Google’s Brand (Searchblog) In which I opine a bit more about why I think Google faces a fork in the brand road.
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