
This has gone too far.

This has gone too far.
Let’s put it this way: if you can build a $100 billion company by using the Internet to replace the college yearbook — imagine what you can do if you use the Internet to replace college. Robert Tracinski — Bigger Than Facebook
Exclusive: Leaked Details of How Facebook Plans To Sell Your Timeline to Advertisers. There’s no FCC policy for sponsors paying to change the algorithm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJvAUqs3Ofg
What Facebook knows about you. I’d love to see the full extent of the data set.
Facebook To Launch A Subscribe Button For Websites. “It’s like RSS, except Facebook gets to own you and your subscribers.” — Les Orchard. For publishers, please see exhibit A, exhibit B, and exhibit C.
Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender. [...] We have a name for the kind of person who collects a detailed, permanent dossier on everyone they interact with, with the intent of using it to manipulate… Continue reading →
I deactivated my Facebook account last week, accidentally clicked on a Facebook link today, and it automatically logged me back in. Creepy.
Initiating two week deletion countdown.
Facebook is crack to journalists and pushers like Nieman Lab aren’t helping their addiction. Publishers: own your technology, user experience, and data. Quit sharecropping on others’. Previously.
Redesigned Facebook aims to become ‘your own personal newspaper’. Facebook to publishers: “checkmate.”
Data centres: Social desert. Facebook’s building a datacenter in Prineville to leverage the natural climate cycle for cooling. I think that’s what you’d call “natural capitalism.”