Well, I’ve never been a real fan of Facebook since I get so much spam with facebook apps my friends send me and I don’t want to spend 5 minutes doing any of that. But my friends are really into facebook and it’s like drugs for them.
The news that Facebook traffic declines 10% in April isn’t something that’s going to affect them much other than their private share holders. I think Facebook will continue to grow but they will definitely have to open up to Google at some point and stop being so anal about their API platform.
As for me? I will stick to going to the beach for the time most people spend on Facebook.
via Mashable
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In a recent launch of Google’s (GOOG) Friend Connect, Facebook has banned Google’s access temporarily until Google complies to Facebook’s specifications of sharing private data.
It’s hard to tell whether Facebook will ban Google completely but I think they are really trying to protect their own privacy policies at this point.
The day that Facebook goes public, I am buying shares though.
The fact is that Google is taking perfectly adequate steps to protect user privacy with their Friend Connect product, and it is a useful product for users. After talking with both sides, it seems to me that Facebook is relying on a very convenient catch-22 to stay out of Google’s network. They are the ones in control of their own API functionality, and they could add features that fix this problem. Until they do, there’s nothing Google can do to remedy the “problem,” and the walls around the Facebook garden get ever higher.
via techcrunch
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It seems like Web 3.0 is nearing and you see Wikis popping up everywhere. These days, most wikis don’t require and wiki markup language. (That’s the whole process of moving to Web 3.0. Sometimes, you can’t even tell it’s a wiki.)
PikiPages, is an evil-brother of PikiWiki, a wiki site that let’s you create wiki pages with sounds, pictures, and video on your Facebook. (Pretty neat I’d say, they are on the verge of Web 3.0 here)
I am not an avid (ab)user of Facebook anymore but these guys have their wikis straight.
Go check out PikiPages on Facebook and found out what you can do. I think this is one Facebook app I might actually log in and check out. (and probably has a good chance of going viral…)
The PikiPages editor is relatively simple to operate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing device in the Facebook application marketplace, but it’s no eyesore, either. And more importantly, it gets the job done. As long as the job is a fairly elementary one. No finagling with CSS here from what we can gather. Just options to add backgrounds, change layouts, add text, designs, various embeds, photos from your Facebook archive (or uploaded from your PC), audio and video recordings. Is that enough to get by? Only the individual user can decide that, of course, but for most people interested enough to find a place for the application in their personal library of choice services, what’s included may generally be what’s needed.
via Mashable
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