Openbook. Check it out if you haven’t already.
Someone once told me the difference between secrecy and privacy are often misconstrued. I don’t really care. This site is entertaining.
Thanks to @juanparker for enlightening me with regard to the existence of this site.
If the original model for creating a website was a destination with content (apple.com, wired.com, etc.) and the current model is platform with user generated content (wikipedia.org, tumblr.com, etc.), then the logical next step should be distributed, user controlled, content on a shared platform (Whatever the hell this Diaspora thing is supposed to be).
I am really happy to see that they beat their budget expecations for the summer by some 17x what they requested. They can thank Facebook being a royal screw-up for that.
In other news: Zuckerberg knows that you were asking for that pat on the ass at work.
facebook is to blogging/personal websites as halo was to video games. discuss
I suppose what you mean by this is that it is a mainstream, rip off of an original idea that distracted us from college work for years when we should have been aware of the truly noteworthy and artistic creations in electronic entertainment.
It’s either that or that Facebook is bound to have a much more full featured blog design tool with lots of hype and pretty graphics that they call a “sequel” that actually sucks but that makes a lot of money.
Wait, does Peter Jackson have a Facebook page!? Is he going to ask for a lot of money to make a blogging site but then give up and let someone else make a Twitter clone?
Alright, I’m done.
I was thinking more along sociology lines that pre-FB, you might look askance at someone with a personal website (i.e. “www.rerun.com”) or worse, a blog. But FB is just (micro?)blogging with some so-called social media functionality built into it (which is really just photo albums and a fancy blogroll). Now people who wouldn’t dare call themselves “bloggers” or say “check out my website” do exactly that, every day – “did you see what I posted on FB?” – just like Halo made video games cool (obviously I’m generalizing here but you get the idea).
I can’t write for shit.
FB is just a personal information aggregator. You can get a dedicated profile on an actual service provider (Vimeo) and have FB capture all your various points of input.
I don’t see any one site providing all the methods of media hosting and sharing that people seem to like. If FB needed to host videos like YouTube, it would have filed for bankruptcy a while ago.
The end result is that we have to create all these various profiles on all these services and have one spot to collect them all. Personally, I’d rather we do away with FB and just give people the capability to design their own site. Bring back the RSS reader and get ‘followed’ or ‘friended’ the old fashioned way.
I realize immediately the irony involved in calling subscribing to a feed ‘old fashioned.’ It’s more honest, though. I am tired of sifting through various ‘friend’ lists. I’d rather just pop open Google Reader and be done with it.
facebook is to blogging/personal websites as halo was to video games. discuss
I suppose what you mean by this is that it is a mainstream, rip off of an original idea that distracted us from college work for years when we should have been aware of the truly noteworthy and artistic creations in electronic entertainment.
It’s either that or that Facebook is bound to have a much more full featured blog design tool with lots of hype and pretty graphics that they call a “sequel” that actually sucks but that makes a lot of money.
Wait, does Peter Jackson have a Facebook page!? Is he going to ask for a lot of money to make a blogging site but then give up and let someone else make a Twitter clone?
Alright, I’m done.
Facebook just recommended that I “reconnect” with an old friend.
The reason we haven’t talked in a while is mostly due to his being dead.
Way to remind me though. Good lookin’ out.
I somehow doubt that this is going to see the light of day within the next 48 hours. However, considering the focus Apple has been putting on App Store submissions lately…maybe we will start to see some of those changes they have been talking about.
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