I discuss Online Privacy and what it means for Businesses & Users
“What is left of privacy has become the user’s responsibility to control what they put up online, since anything you put up online can become public – one way or another; the phrase ‘Online Privacy’ is now nothing more than an oxymoron.
Suddenly marketers are sitting on unprecedented levels of data, opening up a new world of opportunities limited only by their definition of it.”
Read the entire article on Emirates Business 24/7
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What is your Foursquare Door policy?
A lot has been said about privacy on the internet – both in terms of what we put and who share it with. With the omnipresent nature of Facebook, the social network has evolved far beyond the tool it used to be to connect with existing friends. Facebook, similar to Twitter, is being used to form new relationship and make new connections.
Foursquare and other Location based networks, on the other hand are meant to be for your existing friends only, especially given the sensitive nature of the information they are built around. And that is what Dennis Crowley, founder of Foursquare would want you to believe as well. He has said before that Facebook is a place where people may become friends but on Foursquare people connect with people who “they truly wouldn’t mind running into during a night out”
A glance through my Social Graph paints a picture where users (including me) connect with people they may be acquainted with – over Facebook, Twitter and other networks – but may not necessarily have met each other, let alone be friends.
This leaves me wondering, what is your door policy on Foursquare? Do you accept every request that comes your way? Or only the ones you interacted with on a different social network? Or do you strictly maintain it to real life connections?
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Facebook wants Hyper-Like to be the new hyperlink, and other ways the social network is taking over the web.
I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said last night was the night the web -
as we know it – started its change into something drastically. f8, Facebook’s developer conference was held in San Francisco last night and Zuckerburg said what he had for us was the most ‘transformative’ thing they had ever done for the web. And the way they plan to do that is by empowering their developers. Although it was done in a better manner than the oh-so-elegant Steve Ballmer where he portrayed his ‘enthusiasm‘ for developers at a Microsoft Developer conference a couple of years ago.
The announcements made by Facebook had an underlying theme of ‘connections between people and things they care about’.
Tags: connections, facebook, hyperlike, hyperlink, new web, social media, social networks, webRead More
The idea of ‘Relevant’ Social networks
Robert Scoble just put up a long and detailed post about the idea of ‘Malleable’ social graphs and minimobs. A malleable social graph is one that “changes based on conditions you set in motion.” Providing a number of examples Scoble talks about how an ideal malleable social graph would change based on where we are, what we’re doing or what we believe. And this element of Relevance is exactly what Facebook and Twitter have been lacking so far.
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Geo-Networking as the next step in Social Networks
I discuss Geo-Networking, Location Based Networking and FourSquare in an Opinion Piece in Emirates Business 24/7
“…’social’ networks were making us anything but social, at least in the traditional definition of the word. However, the advent of geo-networking or location-based networking looks to change that with services that let users interact based on their physical location at a given time.”
Read the entire article on the Emirates Business 24/7 website
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