http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time Digital Lifestyle Aggregation - helping to establish open source infrastructure Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:38:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243209 Usersky Daily News Network » 2007 Web 2.0 Summit Review: How the Web 2.0 Conference Has Evolved Over 2 Years Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:30:26 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243209 [...] very interesting from a technology perspective. Marc Canter did his best to liven things up, asking both Facebook and MySpace’s leaders to open up their social network properties. But even Marc [...] [...] very interesting from a technology perspective. Marc Canter did his best to liven things up, asking both Facebook and MySpace’s leaders to open up their social network properties. But even Marc [...]

]]> http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243194 gino Sat, 20 Oct 2007 15:33:12 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243194 is there any relationship between the way facebook started up and the way facebook is renewing its promise to its users ? is there any relationship between the way facebook started up and the way facebook is renewing its promise to its users ?

]]> http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243192 Julian Bond Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:19:50 +0000 http://blog.broadbandmechanics.com/2007/10/asking-the-right-questions-at-the-right-time#comment-243192 When people ask you "why would a vendor open up and let their social graph leave their ‘gated community?" Perhaps you should point them at LinkedIn which has been allowing you to export your contacts in CSV for some long time now. It doesn't seem to have hurt them much. Not quite such a good analogy, but just about every webmail service lets you do the same thing. We'd be horrified if a webmail service wouldn't let us have access to our friend's email addresses. Why don't we feel the same way about Facebook? Oh, right, you, me and quite a few others do! When people ask you “why would a vendor open up and let their social graph leave their ‘gated community?” Perhaps you should point them at LinkedIn which has been allowing you to export your contacts in CSV for some long time now. It doesn’t seem to have hurt them much. Not quite such a good analogy, but just about every webmail service lets you do the same thing. We’d be horrified if a webmail service wouldn’t let us have access to our friend’s email addresses. Why don’t we feel the same way about Facebook? Oh, right, you, me and quite a few others do!

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