Facebook and "Radical Transparency" (A Rant)
At SXSW, I decided to talk about privacy because I thought that it would be the most important issue of the year. I was more accurate than my wildest dreams. For the last month, I've watched as conversations about privacy went from being the topic of the tech elite to a conversation that's pervasive. The press coverage is overwhelming – filled with infographics and a concerted effort by journalists to make sense of and communicate what seems to be a moving target. I commend them for doing so.
danah boyd, privacy, Facebook, social networks, digital living
Why, despite Myself, I Am Not Leaving Facebook. Yet.
As my Facebook friends and Twitter followers know, like many others I'm angry at Facebook. I haven't written a blog post about it because so many others have been making most of my points so eloquently (forgive me for not linking to them). But I relent, and here it is anyway, in the form of responses to the criticisms of criticism that I keep hearing:
Nancy Baym, social networks, Facebook, Twitter, privacy
Why Social Sharing Is Bigger than Facebook & Twitter
Originally posted at Harvard Business Review
The digital landscape is being reshaped by the news that Facebook is opening up its social graph. Twitter, too, has made waves by acquiring companies that made third-party services for Twitter.
David Armano, social media, sharing, Twitter, Facebook
Facebook Visited Twice as Often as Google in the Workplace (and Why You Shouldn't Ban Social Media at Work)
Employees are visiting Facebook more than any other site when they are at work, and twice as often as the second most visited site, Google. Research out this week from Network Box, a Managed Security Services company, shows that visits to the social network accounted for 6.8% of all workplace traffic in Q1 2010, exactly twice the 3.4% of all traffic that went to Google.
Matt Rhodes, Facebook, social networks, social media, workplace, social media policy, employees
Facebook & Siebel: A Tale of Two Decades
Advanced technology. Ideas that promise to revolutionize the way businesses are run. Out with the old, in with the new. Not sure how it'll make any money? Mere details. Get going or risk getting left behind. Great riches will come to those with the guts to throw caution and experience to the wind.
Jonathan Salem Baskin, Facebook, Siebel, social media, CRM, technology
Thought Experiment: What if Facebook, Skype and PayPal Merged?
Many people don't know that Bostonian William Crapo (Billy) Durant founded General Motors, and if you ever go to the old General Motors Building in Detroit, you will see his initials emblazoned on the coat of arms in the eaves of the building. Durant was the visionary who crashed together the Buick, Oldsmobile, Chevrolet, and Cadillac companies, just to name a few. Due to his financial aggressiveness he controlled but then lost GM twice and it was finally taken over by Alfred Sloan, who built it into the world's most successful enterprise of its day.
John Sviokla, Facebook, Skype, PayPal, revenue, strategy
Twitter and Facebook Follow Foursquare – 2010 Is the Year of Location-based Social Media Tools
It is a truth universally acknowledged that everybody makes predictions at the end of a year about 'the big thing for next year'. Sometimes they're right and sometimes they're wrong. And sometimes you only really start to notice trends and change when you are in them. In social media it is becoming clearer and clearer that the big thing for 2010 is location-based tools.
social media tools, location based, Matt Rhodes, Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook
How the Global Fortune 100 Are Using Social Media: Some Statistics
A useful survey from global PR firm Burson-Marsteller this week looks at the ways in which the Global Fortune 100 companies are using social media. The tools they are using and how they are developing a social media strategy. The survey looked at 100 firms in the US, Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America and examined how these firms are using social media.
Matt Rhodes, social media, statistics, Fortune 100, corporate blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, survey
Facebook and the Myth of QWERTY's Inferiority
Writing about the impending 'technological lock-in' of the social operating system space by Facebook, Reuters in a recent article compared the site to the QWERTY keyboard layout. (Via Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics.)
Iqbal Mohammed, Facebook
Public by Default, Private when Necessary
This post was originally written for the DML Central Blog. If you're interested in Digital Media and Learning, you definitely want to check this blog out.
With Facebook systematically dismantling its revered privacy infrastructure, I think it's important to drill down on the issue of privacy as it relates to teens. There's an assumption that teens don't care about privacy but this is completely inaccurate. Teens care deeply about privacy, but their conceptualization of what this means may not make sense in a setting where privacy settings are a binary.
danah boyd, privacy, teens, Facebook, privacy policies, exposure