chrissaad.wordpress.com - 12/2/2008
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Have you seen this ?
Let me quote the highlights for you:
If the initial development race of Web 2.0 centered around “building a better social network” then the next phase will certainly focus on extending the reach of existing social networks beyond their current domain. How? ...
scobleizer.com - 12/2/2008
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scobleizer.com —
Nokia just announced the N97. I got a
chance to play with it last night and realized
they have built the ultimate Facebook device. Now, I’m sure, lots of you will wonder how it compares to the iPhone. Well, for a Facebook user it isn’t ...
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Nokia N97: the ultimate Facebook device
gigaom.com - 12/1/2008
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gigaom.com —
Inventor and tech-philosopher Dave Winer Twittered tonight that
federation is the hot thing, pointing to a New
York Times article about Facebook Connect . And just like that he touched upon the third rail of our increasingly social web. The big ...
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Social Web’s Big Question: Federate or Aggregate? [GigaOM]
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As Facebook Connect Expands, OpenID's Challenges Grow
Wired: Epicenter —
... "Essentially, Facebook is trying to replace all logins with their own, and control the creation, distribution and application of the social graph using their proprietary platform," Chris Saad, open-source advocate and co-founder of the Data Portability project, writes on his blog. ...
Memo to OpenID: Keep it simple, please
Webware.com —
... and other open Web standards, wrote in a blog post. "The most scary part of this, is that while Facebook is quietly and methodically building out this vision with massive partners, the standards community is busy squabbling about naming the open alternative." ...
Uh oh, Facebook is About to Become the Internet
SitePoint —
... The other concern, the more menacing one, of course, is whether it is really a good thing for one company to be so embedded into the fabric of the Internet. “Facebook is trying to replace all logins with their own, and control the creation, distribution and application of the social graph using their proprietary platform,” says Chris Saad, a backer of OpenID. That’s a scary proposition, according to him. ...
Why Facebook Will Have a Big 2009
SitePoint —
... As Chris Saad writes, “Facebook [essentially] is trying to replace all logins with their own, and control the creation, distribution and application of the social graph using their proprietary platform.” As we wrote in December, if Facebook Connect does win, it might mean that Facebook is basically alone at the helm controlling our entire social experience across the web. ...
Should the Government Control Internet Standards?
ReadWriteWeb —
... "Essentially, Facebook is trying to replace all logins with their own, and control the creation, distribution and application of the social graph using their proprietary platform." Chris Saad, co-founder of the Data Portability project wrote on his blog. ...
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