Ever wondered the significance of the Like button? It's Facebook's portal that will take it into Google territory. The social media giant, half a billion users strong, has just announced the arrival of its Open Graph search feature, which will allow Web sites that use the platform to be added to Facebook search. In short, Facebook can start searching the Web at will, rather than merely its own site. Social semantic search, here we come.
The difference between Google and Facebook is that Facebook is making Web sites come to it, via its Open Graph platform, which it rolled out at f8 earlier this year. Softpedia explains Facebook's advantage over Google very well indeed this morning. "It doesn't need a massive and constantly updating infrastructure to index the Web, Web masters will do its work for it."
Whereas Google scours the web for keyword-based links (although its switch to a...
The difference between Google and Facebook is that Facebook is making Web sites come to it, via its Open Graph platform, which it rolled out at f8 earlier this year. Softpedia explains Facebook's advantage over Google very well indeed this morning. "It doesn't need a massive and constantly updating infrastructure to index the Web, Web masters will do its work for it."
Whereas Google scours the web for keyword-based links (although its switch to a...
- 6/25/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
Uh oh, it looks like as well as U.S. governmental types, Facebook's own user base is beginning to get angry about the site's recent thrusts to redefine individual Net privacy. Does Mark Zuckerberg actually express concern? Nope.
The subtlety in the current complaints comes from Facebook's recent change to Facebook Pages, the replacement for the old Community system. When Facebook rejigged this part of its social net, it redirected your "membership" of communities to what new Facebook Page it deemed appropriate. As they're noting over at AllFacebook.com, this can cause a subtle yet potentially significant problem which users are beginning to complain about: Facebook may not choose the "right" Page to associate your data with. The example given in this piece is the difference between a "random" community generated Page that has a roughly similar name to an official Fan Page (in this case the writer, Nick O'Neill...
The subtlety in the current complaints comes from Facebook's recent change to Facebook Pages, the replacement for the old Community system. When Facebook rejigged this part of its social net, it redirected your "membership" of communities to what new Facebook Page it deemed appropriate. As they're noting over at AllFacebook.com, this can cause a subtle yet potentially significant problem which users are beginning to complain about: Facebook may not choose the "right" Page to associate your data with. The example given in this piece is the difference between a "random" community generated Page that has a roughly similar name to an official Fan Page (in this case the writer, Nick O'Neill...
- 4/30/2010
- by Kit Eaton
- Fast Company
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