Comments on: Facebook – AOL of the 21st Century? http://OSApostle.com/wordpress/2009/06/29/facebook-aol-of-the-21st-century WordPress weblog for Scott, the Open Source Apostle Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Scott http://OSApostle.com/wordpress/2009/06/29/facebook-aol-of-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-2889 Scott Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:47:16 +0000 http://OSApostle.com/wordpress/?p=178#comment-2889 The Canadian Privacy Commissioner also has concerns: <a href="http://www.canada.com/technology/Facebook+must+satisfy+Canada+privacy+commissioner+Monday/1899277/story.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Facebook must satisfy Canada's privacy commissioner by Monday</a>. The Canadian Privacy Commissioner also has concerns: Facebook must satisfy Canada’s privacy commissioner by Monday.

]]> By: Scott http://OSApostle.com/wordpress/2009/06/29/facebook-aol-of-the-21st-century/comment-page-1#comment-2818 Scott Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:27:03 +0000 http://OSApostle.com/wordpress/?p=178#comment-2818 I found another article about Facebook in Wired that describes a competing vision for the future of the internet that accords with my observations. Essentially, FB wants to have a <em>closed</em> internet, where they can gather copious information from trusting users for targeting ads, etc. -- all while keeping Google's search crawlers away. It makes me even more uneasy than the "sandbox" metaphor. See: <a href="http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall?currentPage=all" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network's Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out</a>. I found another article about Facebook in Wired that describes a competing vision for the future of the internet that accords with my observations. Essentially, FB wants to have a closed internet, where they can gather copious information from trusting users for targeting ads, etc. — all while keeping Google’s search crawlers away. It makes me even more uneasy than the “sandbox” metaphor. See: Great Wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet — and Keep Google Out.

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