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  Facebook Connect - Is this Beacon 2.0?

  http://www.mulley.net/2008/05/10/facebook-connect-is-this-be...
  6 days ago in Damien Mulley · Authority: 483

  Some are saying this is something like a version of openID and the current implementations for Facebook Connect are for interacting with your Facebook Friends outside of Facebook. An example is being able to see what your Facebook Friends are doing on
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  EKONOMIJA - KULTURA 1:1

  http://kiberdzezva.blogspot.com/2008/05/ekonomija-kultura-11...
  2 days ago in KiberDzezva · Authority: 2

  U nekim područjima blogerske kulture, višetjedni izostanak posta teško se opravdava. Mi, svom srećom, vodimo ovaj blog na uskom području na kojem se križaju suvremena umjetnost, Internet, Web 2.0 i koješta drugo, pa je i tolerancija na rijeđe postanje puno veća. Također, u prethofnom periodu pripremali smo i izložbu Nove mreže novih medija, što nam je bilo uzelo nemalo vremena predviđenog za pisanje bloga. Evo nas, dakle, nazad. Od zanimljivih, u međuvremenu propuštenih tema, pažljivo bukmarkiranih za kasnije, test vremena izdržala je jedna. Riječ je o odnosu između ekonomije i kulture. Pa, krenimo ovim putem. Facebook je najavio dugo priželjkivanu mogućnost da svoje podatke, svoj fejsbukovski profil ili identitet dijelite s drugim web servisima, na način koji vam garantira laku i poptunu kontrolu nad procesom razmjene. Istu slobodu da korisnik (djelomično) raspolaže sa svojim Web identitetom uskoro će omogućiti i My Space, a za očekivati je da će ih u tome pratiti i drugi društveni servisi Weba 2.0. Utrka u zadovoljavanju korisničkih potreba između velikih igrača kao što su Google, Yahoo, Amazon, Facebook i drugih, traje već neko vrijeme i još joj se ne nazire kraj. Sve se odvija kao po nekom planu i programu: proširujući mogućnosti naše on-line komunikacije, korporacije zarađuju novac. Ekonomija unapređuje kulturu, kultura korigira ekonomiju. Dobro ugođeni sistem, koji kontrolira sam sebe. Ili kako bi to rekao Bernard Lunn, opisujući sada već glavnostrujašku ekonomiju Weba 2.0: Web 2.0 je riješio problem troškova. Slijedeća era riješit će problem prihoda na način kojeg svi razumiju. Zarada na Internetu bit će moguća samo ukoliko i drugima omogućite zaradu. U svijetu kulture i umjetnosti, jedna od izdržljivijih utopijskih ideja vezana za odnos između umjetnosti i tehnologije odnosila se prvo na uvjerenje da tehnologija bitno utječe na ljude, a zatim na vjeru da je mijenajući tehnologiju moguće mijenjati i ljude, odnosno društvo. Tako je nedavno jedan talijanski bloger spomenuo svoj boravak na Kubi, pokušavši ocrtati razliku koja, navodno, postoji između Kubanaca koji rade i koji ne rade kao informatičari. U kiberkafićima, naime, poslovično topli i otvoreni Kubanci, postali bi hladni i praktični sistemci. Ta, u osnovi mekluanovska teza, aktualna je i danas, u eri Weba 2.0, pa nije potrebno čeprkati, recimo, po Novim mrežama novih medija, po periodu, kojeg ionako prati pionirski i utopijski imidž: dovoljno je baciti oko na aktualne prijepore oko društvenog softvera da shvatimo da se na izravni odnos između ekonomijei kulture još uvijek ozbiljno računa. U izvrsnom postu izvrsnog naslova - The cold, cold heart of Web 2.0 – William Davies je povezao nobelovca Gary Beckera i Web 2.0. Becker je ekonomist, koji je po Daviesovim riječima, tijekom druge polovice 20.st primijenio ekonomske principe na svakodnevni život i tako revolucionirao ekonomsku znanost. Za Beckera ekonomija nije samo tržište, nego svaka društvena praksa, čak i ona najintimnija, kao što su odgajanje djece ili druženje s prijateljima. U svakoj od njih, naime, moguće je naići na neki trag klasične ekonomske ideje o rentabilnosti, produktivnosti, štedljivosti i tome slično. Daviesovim riječima, roditelji koji posegnu za knjigom kako bi djeci pročitali priču za laku noć, ne čine to (samo) zato što vole svoju djecu ili zato što vole čitati, nego (i) zato da investiraju u dječju sposobnost poimanja određenih etičkih ili etetskih principa, primjerice, koji im u kasnijim godinama mogu olakšati snalaženje na tržištu rada. Web 2.0, kaže Davies, kao da ponovno aktualizira Beckerovu teoriju. Web-servisi kao što su Last fm, Facebook ili My Space, na područje intimnog života – izbor i slušanje glazbe, druženje, ofiranje – primijenjuju ekonomsku logiku. Drugim riječima, nigdje kao tamo na Webu danas vrijeme nije više novac. Poslušali ste jedan album - Last fm vam preporučuje tri; imate jednog prijatelja, Facebook vjeruje da sigurno znate i ove ljude. Međutim, efikasnost nije ono što upravlja našim životom, tvrdi Davies. Bilo bi glupo ignorirati sve prednosti koje Facebook nudi u organizaciji tuluma, ali čini se da ljudi nisu uvijek skloni racionalnim riješenjima. Efikasnost i uniformnost, kaže dalje Davies, koju nam nudi Web 2.0 ne može zadovoljiti sve kulturne potrebe prosječnog korisnika Interneta. Zbog toga valjda još uvijek gluvarimo po šoping-centrima, besciljno hodamo gradom, kompulzivno kupujemo i naručujemo ćevape u kasnu noć. Odnos između ekonomije i kulture tako je , čini se, složeniji nego ikad. Nije, naime, slučajno da stručnjaci govore o kulturama Interneta i da novomedijskoj umjetnosti treba dugi put do glavne struje umjetničke kulture.
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  Data Portability: Facebook, Google and MySpace

  http://www.centernetworks.com/dataportability-facebook
  2 days ago in Welcome to CenterNetworks - The New Standard In Web Technology News and Opinions · Authority: 1,502

  By now we’ve all read the recent data portability announcements by Google (Friend Connect), MySpace (Data Availability) and Facebook (Facebook Connect) to extend social functionality outside of their walls to any website. Since these announcements were made I’ve been asked for my opinion about what it means to web publishers, the market and KickApps. I believe all three will be useful but the key point if you’re a publisher is to what degree do YOU want and need to own YOUR site’s audience’s’profile data and activities data. This will dictate how you use or don’t use any of the three. At the highest level, core to every publisher is its brand, editorial content/voice and relationship with its audience. As the web becomes more social, access by the publisher to their audience’s Profile and Social Graph (audience data and activities) becomes extremely important. Having this information becomes a powerful tool that delivers deep insight into their audience, which informs editorial programming and marketing. Crucially, it plays a huge role in delivering truly targeted advertising. While Google, MySpace and Facebook’s initiatives allow publishers to import more data from the big social networks into their own users’ experiences which will help to seed a new niche community, the CORE piece that is missing is that they don’t empower publishers to aggregate their own membership and fully access their member’s Social Graph. To achieve this, publishers will want control of their own community profile management, reporting and social graph engine–the heart of what KickApps provides. It’s also important to publishers that core applications (UGC, social networking, widgets, programmable video players, media management, member management), along with 3rd party apps (OpenSocial and Facebook), are also fully integrated with their members’ social graph and member data out of the box. Net-net, I believe the data portability initiatives are a good thing for the industry. KickApps will integrate with MySpace Data Availability, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect such that our publishers can quickly accelerate growth of their own audience by tapping into the “friends” their members already have on the big social networks. In that respect KickApps is not only the foundation of your social graph engine but is a serious accelerator for publishers looking to get the benefits of any “openness” provided by the big social networks while retaining ownership and control of their own audience and social graph data. As always, the devil is in the details and we’ll all have a front row seat as it develops. I’m sure the discussion around this will continue in the weeks and months to come. So far, Mike Gunderloy of Web Worker Daily’s post, “Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point?” resonates most with me as he examines this from a web publisher’s point of view. Charlene Li’s blogs about Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect are also a good read, as is Stacey Higginbotham’s post on GigaOM, “Prying Open the Social Graph.” UPDATE: Eric, KickApps’ founder’s take on this can be found here. Also, Marshall Kirkpatrick has great analysis of this as usual. This column was provided by Alex Blum, KickApps CEO. KickApps is a hosted, white-label platform that puts social media and online video functionality directly into the hands of every web publisher who aspires to be a media mogul and turns every web designer and developer into a social media rockstar. Check out the KickApps Web site for more information and our KickApps coverage.
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  Data Portability: Facebook, Google and MySpace

  http://technology.nuovoportale.com/data-portability-facebook...
  2 days ago in News portal: technology the best weblog aggregator on the web · Authority: 13

  By now we’ve all read the recent data portability announcements by Google (Friend Connect), MySpace (Data Availability) and Facebook (Facebook Connect) to extend social functionality outside of their walls to any website. Since these announcements were made I’ve been asked for my opinion about what it means to web publishers, the market and KickApps. I believe all three will be useful but the key point if you’re a publisher is to what degree do YOU want and need to own YOUR site’s audience’s’profile data and activities data. This will dictate how you use or don’t use any of the three. At the highest level, core to every publisher is its brand, editorial content/voice and relationship with its audience. As the web becomes more social, access by the publisher to their audience’s Profile and Social Graph (audience data and activities) becomes extremely important. Having this information becomes a powerful tool that delivers deep insight into their audience, which informs editorial programming and marketing. Crucially, it plays a huge role in delivering truly targeted advertising. While Google, MySpace and Facebook’s initiatives allow publishers to import more data from the big social networks into their own users’ experiences which will help to seed a new niche community, the CORE piece that is missing is that they don’t empower publishers to aggregate their own membership and fully access their member’s Social Graph. To achieve this, publishers will want control of their own community profile management, reporting and social graph engine–the heart of what KickApps provides. It’s also important to publishers that core applications (UGC, social networking, widgets, programmable video players, media management, member management), along with 3rd party apps (OpenSocial and Facebook), are also fully integrated with their members’ social graph and member data out of the box. Net-net, I believe the data portability initiatives are a good thing for the industry. KickApps will integrate with MySpace Data Availability, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect such that our publishers can quickly accelerate growth of their own audience by tapping into the “friends” their members already have on the big social networks. In that respect KickApps is not only the foundation of your social graph engine but is a serious accelerator for publishers looking to get the benefits of any “openness” provided by the big social networks while retaining ownership and control of their own audience and social graph data. As always, the devil is in the details and we’ll all have a front row seat as it develops. I’m sure the discussion around this will continue in the weeks and months to come. So far, Mike Gunderloy of Web Worker Daily’s post, “Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point?” resonates most with me as he examines this from a web publisher’s point of view. Charlene Li’s blogs about Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect are also a good read, as is Stacey Higginbotham’s post on GigaOM, “Prying Open the Social Graph.” UPDATE: Eric, KickApps’ founder’s take on this can be found here. Also, Marshall Kirkpatrick has great analysis of this as usual. This column was provided by Alex Blum, KickApps CEO. KickApps is a hosted, white-label platform that puts social media and online video functionality directly into the hands of every web publisher who aspires to be a media mogul and turns every web designer and developer into a social media rockstar. Check out the KickApps Web site for more information and our KickApps coverage. Partner Links -- Web Jobs -- NY Tech Directory -- CenterNetworks LinkedIn Business Group -- CenterNetworks Facebook Fan Page -- Purchase an Apple iPhone Related posts No related posts.
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  Data Portability: Facebook, Google and MySpace

  http://www.kickapps.com/blog/2008/05/13/data-portability-fac...
  3 days ago in KickApps Blog - Social Media, Social Networking, Widgets, Video and Community Applications · Authority: 25

  By now we’ve all read the recent data portability announcements by Google (Friend Connect), MySpace (Data Availability) and Facebook (Facebook Connect) to extend social functionality outside of their walls to any website. Since these announcements were made I’ve been asked for my opinion about what it means to web publishers, the market and KickApps. I believe all three will be useful but the key point if you’re a publisher is to what degree do YOU want and need to own YOUR site’s audience’s’profile data and activities data. This will dictate how you use or don’t use any of the three. At the highest level, core to every publisher is its brand, editorial content/voice and relationship with its audience. As the web becomes more social, access by the publisher to their audience’s Profile and Social Graph (audience data and activities) becomes extremely important. Having this information becomes a powerful tool that delivers deep insight into their audience, which informs editorial programming and marketing. Crucially, it plays a huge role in delivering truly targeted advertising. While Google, MySpace and Facebook’s initiatives allow publishers to import more data from the big social networks into their own users’ experiences which will help to seed a new niche community, the CORE piece that is missing is that they don’t empower publishers to aggregate their own membership and fully access their member’s Social Graph. To achieve this, publishers will want control of their own community profile management, reporting and social graph engine—the heart of what KickApps provides. It’s also important to publishers that core applications (UGC, social networking, widgets, programmable video players, media management, member management), along with 3rd party apps (OpenSocial and Facebook), are also fully integrated with their members’ social graph and member data out of the box. Net-net, I believe the data portability initiatives are a good thing for the industry. KickApps will integrate with MySpace Data Availability, Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect such that our publishers can quickly accelerate growth of their own audience by tapping into the “friends” their members already have on the big social networks. In that respect KickApps is not only the foundation of your social graph engine but is a serious accelerator for publishers looking to get the benefits of any “openness” provided by the big social networks while retaining ownership and control of their own audience and social graph data. As always, the devil is in the details and we’ll all have a front row seat as it develops. I’m sure the discussion around this will continue in the weeks and months to come. So far, Mike Gunderloy of Web Worker Daily’s post, “Google Friend Connect: What’s the Point?” resonates most with me as he examines this from a web publisher’s point of view. Charlene Li’s blogs about Facebook Connect and Google’s Friend Connect are also a good read, as is Stacey Higginbotham’s post on GigaOM, “Prying Open the Social Graph.” UPDATE: Eric, KickApps’ founder’s take on this can be found here. Also, Marshall Kirkpatrick has great analysis of this as usual. ShareThis
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  Facebook, MySpace and Google Open Up

  http://stevemurch.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/facebook-myspac.h...
  5 days ago in Northwest Passages by Steve Murch · Authority: 2

  I read with great interest on Friday that Facebook is soon going to let websites like BigOven.com and ClearStay.com -- two sites I'm involved with -- access user profiles. That is huge news. You can read about it on the facebook developers blog. MySpace (the first large site to this "data portability" party) and Google (rumored to be announcing Monday) are also opening up. Yahoo! is getting into the act with "Yahoo! Open", and "Search Monkey", which allow developers to tap into the social profiles as well as the search results. Let's say you're a Facebook user. This seems to mean: With your permission, BigOven.com could access your profile information, a list of your friends, for instance to let you know what recipes on the site your Facebook friends liked, or to open up a private channel for you to suggest recipes for each other. Now, the above scenario is possible today with Facebook's API, but only if you built a mini-application inside of Facebook. With Facebook connect, it appears BigOven.om will be able to fetch and display useful information about the user, and populate user profiles, access friends lists, and more. Very interesting. Facebook now has an astonishingly high 70 million members at this writing. (BigOven.com has a little over 100,000.) So we've got a pretty good incentive to get cracking on this. At the simplest level, this will appear to the user in the form of only having to enter social profile information once. If you've told Facebook that you and Jim are friends, and that you're a female from Orlando, you shouldn't have to re-tell that to BigOven.com. So at a very minimum, this reduction in friction should be a terrific boon to vertically-focused social networks like BigOven.com. We've got a "friends" concept at BigOven.com, but it's seen fairly little use so far. This should help tremendously. Further reading: Facebook Connect -- Another Step to Open Social Networks, Charlene Li, Forrester It remains to be seen just how open social networks will be with their data, but I love this race toward openness -- it gives rapid-development sites a leg-up in establishing critical mass.

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