Actual Facebook Graph Searches
Another Tom Scott project:
I had to take one more quick, cheap shot — and I think a Tumblr blog is the quickest, cheapest shot it’s possible to take.
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Soul Compare: Get the most for your soul.
The latest project from Tom Scott is like many Facebook-authenticated apps that ask you to sell your soul, but this one is literal. I think I might offer my soul (worth 56gigaMorgans) to Cthulhu.
Why Instagram Works — Rainypixels
It’s all about the signalling.
Social Login Buttons Aren’t Worth It | MailChimp Email Marketing Blog
A great in-depth explanation by Aarron on why Mailchimp dropped their Facebook and Twitter log-in options. Partly it was the NASCAR problem, but the data (provided by user testing with Silverback) also brought up some interesting issues.
We know what you’re doing… A social networking privacy experiment by Callum Haywood
A grab-bag of public updates on Facebook.
Pictures and vision
Robin Sloan compares Facebook and Google in an interesting way:
Really, Facebook is the world’s largest photo sharing site—that also happens to be a social network and a login system.
Google is getting good, really good, at building things that see the world around them and actually understand what they’re seeing.
A Patent Lie: How Yahoo Weaponized My Work | Epicenter | Wired.com
A superb scathing piece by Andy, who has a personal perspective on Yahoo’s massively dick move in deploying the patent nuclear option against Facebook.
«Once Upon» by Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied
What would Google+, YouTube and Facebook have looked like in 1997?
Bullshit – Marco.org
Everyone has their bullshit. You can simply decide whose you’re willing to tolerate.
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
A truly excellent article outlining the difference between share-cropping and self-hosting. It may seem that the convenience of using a third-party service outweighs the hassle of owning your own URLs but this puts everything into perspective.
only human « delicious juice dot com: unapologetically inappropriate
Rioting in the age of Facebook.
JAMES FACE - OLI ALEX
Cruel in a subtle sort of way: re-posting slightly tweaked Facebook photos of one poor guy.
Microformats | weblog | Facebook Adds hCalendar and hCard Microformats to Millions of Events
As of today, every single public event on Facebook is marked up using hCalendar. Take the Great British Booze-up, for example…
Link Rot « The Bygone Bureau
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
Facebook hype will fade - CNN.com
Douglas Rushkoff on the repeating circle of life that all big online companies live through.
Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker
A well-argued piece by Malcolm Gladwell on the relative pros and cons of weak-tie networks and strong-tie hierarchies ...although, as always, Gladwell relies on anecdotes more than data to make his point.
Liminal Existence: Identity
Blaine outlines the vision for Webfinger.
Making Light: The lily knows not why it blossoms in the spring
Before we point the finger and laugh at the Facebook users leaving confused comments on Read Write Web, we should look to our own experiences with Google Buzz.
Web 2.0 Suicide Machine - Meet your Real Neighbours again! - Sign out forever!
A quick way of leaving Facebook, Twitter, Linked In and MySpace. It uses the password anti-pattern but after using this, I guess you won't be needing that password again.
Social Networks Aren't Good Businesses - washingtonpost.com
An interesting take on the business models of social networking sites.
Internet Users in Developing Countries Drag on Sites’ Profits - NYTimes.com
A sobering article on the cost of being a truly global website. This gives some context to Last.fm's recent pricing model decision.
"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?"
danah boyd addresses the Microsoft Research Tech Fest.
Amanda L. French, Ph.D. » Blog Archive » Facebook terms of service compared with MySpace, Flickr, Picasa, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Twitter
Social networking Terms Of Service compared and contrasted.
Facebook's New Terms Of Service: "We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever."
Facebook's terms of service used to say that when you closed an account on their network, any rights they claimed to the original content you uploaded would expire. Not anymore.
Austenbook
Pride and Prejudice told through Facebook.
The OpenID and OAuth Flow: Playing with UX · Ben Ward
A thoughtful post from Ben on how the flow of OAuth, OpenID and Facebook Connect can be improved.
Maybe the effort we go to as we think about the... · Ben Ward's Scattered Mind
"Facebook has rolled out an identity system — Facebook Connect — with a slick UI that trains a gazillion tech-naïve users to slap their identity credentials into any old website."
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).
Oh McSweeney's, does your satisfyingly smug brand of dry wit know no bounds?
kev/null - Facebook Has License to Sell Your Photos
Kevin points out why you might want to keep your pictures on Flickr rather than Facebook. Like you needed a reason.
Facebook Security Advice: Never Ever Enter Your Passwords On Another Site, Unless We Ask You To
I never thought I'd find myself linking to and agreeing with a post on TechC*nt but it's good to see somebody pointing out Facebook's hypocrisy with using the password anti-pattern.
Facebook In Real Life is Today's BIG Thing - APR 30, 2008
This isn't just funny, it also encapsulates a lot of the ridiculousness of Facebook interactions.
App Engine, Facebook Platform, OpenSocial, and the Future of the Web - O'Reilly Radar
David Recordon shares his first impressions of Google App Engine.
If all your friends jumped off of a bridge… at Ben Brown, Internet Rockstar
Ben Brown outlines the reasons why he left Facebook: "I think it is important to note that Facebook, though they claim to be a tool for staying connected, is actually a software tool designed *primarily* to deliver marketing messages to its audience."
Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA
An excellent piece of research that shows how Facebook affiliates' cross-site scripting (Beacon) sends information back to the mothership regardless of whether the user has opted out.
No random play for you, old man! « Beth Granter
Facebook is ageist. Which sucks. To paraphrase Groucho Marx, you're only as old as the [woman/man] you are interested in [random play/networking/whatever you can get] with.
Arsebook | Welcome to Arsebook!
Arsebook is an anti-social utility that connects you with the people YOU HATE.
Brad's Thoughts on the Social Graph
Another take on social network portability.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Pull down the walled gardens
The need for portable social networks hits the mainstream press: Professor Michael Geist writes an article for the BBC website.
The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites
"In addition to assessing bonding and bridging social capital, we explore a dimension of social capital that assesses one's ability to stay connected with members of a previously inhabited community, which we call maintained social capital."
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Danah Boyd's essay is required reading for anyone with even a passing interest in social networks.