Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Who Should Own the Internet?
Thursday, April 21st, 2011The genesis for this article came from reading this interesting piece by @novaspivack about his honored invitation to participate in the e-G8 Forum—a gathering of global Internet leaders to be held right before this year’s G8 Summit in Paris. Nova asked his readers what they thought were the key issues to communicate.
As I began to compose a response to Nova’s query, it soon became clear that I had too much to say for a blog comment and decided that it was more fitting to write an article for my own site and then simply point Nova to it. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, leadership, privacy, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Web of Data, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
It’s Time for Blogging to Evolve
Saturday, March 5th, 2011The concept of blogging needs to evolve. Whereas Twitter and Facebook seem to have stolen some of the wind from blogging, I believe that netizens in general still desire to control their webspace and their webpresence. That is one reason that Diaspora–the upstart distributed social networking project–found initial funding success on Kickstarter. People want to have control over their content and privacy. They want to use their personal website as the anchor, as the foundation for their online communications. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 10 Comments »
The Web is Not (yet) Social
Tuesday, January 4th, 2011There is a common misunderstanding about the meaning of the phrase Social Web. I believe that most of the Web’s netizens think that the Web is social. But in fact the Web is not currently social.
Whereas Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and other ventures are social platforms, they are not the Web. These entities are only part of the Web—although it’s looking more and more “like” Facebook wants you to think that the Web equals Facebook. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, Linked Data, privacy 2.0, SocialWeb, Twitter, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, Web of Data
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 1 Comment »
Apple Unveils Ping and Enters Social-networking War with Facebook and Twitter
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010During Apple’s media event today, CEO Steve Jobs previewed iTunes 10 which will include Ping, a social network for music (Ping press release). I believe this is possibly a game-changing event for Facebook, Twitter, and the Social Web in general. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, microblogging, Ping, SocialWeb, Twitter
Posted in Social Media & Semantic Web | No Comments »
Regaining Control of Privacy and Identity: It’s up to Each Individual
Sunday, May 2nd, 2010This is a follow-up post to my article, Privacy in the Facebook Era. It was originally a reply to a comment by Chris Messina in that post. As this topic continues to be relevant, I’ve decided to extract my comment from that post, revise it, add to it, and turn it into an article. Read more »
Tags: data silos, Facebook, freedoms, identity 2.0, privacy, privacy 2.0, WebID
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 3 Comments »
Privacy in the Facebook Era
Monday, January 11th, 2010Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg recently stated that privacy is no longer a social norm. Is that an actual fact or a engineered fact?
Here’s why I ask. Over the past several years, whenever Facebook has made a change to its privacy policies, it has caused great uproar—not only with civil liberties advocates (as you would expect), but also with Facebook’s user base. Read more »
Tags: Facebook, foaf+ssl, freedoms, identity 2.0, privacy
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Leadership, Social Media & Semantic Web | 5 Comments »
