Beautifully crafted, shot and worded videos aside, Facebook ‘Places‘ is a big step for Facebook. Not only is it playing nice with other services (for now at least) but it’s a big difference from previous launches with regards to privacy. Don’t get me wrong they will win no awards with the privacy pundits - it’s still predominantly opt-out (learn how here) – but there are a lot more controls given to people up front/built-in. I must admit I was expecting a lot more built in from the beginning but again history tells us Facebook builds for long-term not short-term money.
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- Tags: check-in, facebook, foursquare, Foursquare Solutions, geolocation, gowalla, location, location geolocation, Online Communities, places, privacy, Security, Social Networking
When I talk to people about Foursquare, Gowalla and geo-location in general I find two things becoming quite apparent quite quickly 1) there’s a delicious denialism that people hold on to quite tightly and 2) people are vastly unaware of the difference between public and publicity. The denialism is that you don’t have to be doing something wrong or be fantastically important for people to give a crap about what you buy and where you go (utterly shocking/groundbreaking, I know) and the public/publicity thing is for another post but suffice to say that people often blur the two without knowing with potentially disastrous effects. Read the rest of this entry »
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- Tags: denialism, foursquare, geolocation, gowalla, guardian, leo hickman, location-based, privacy, psychology, publicity, services, twitter
Ignoring the furor of press coverage recently you’ve got to hand it to Facebook. They’re doing something different. Radically different. They’re aggressively pushing boundaries (rightly or wrongly) and being bold in a somewhat stale/crowded market. Just looking at all the data visualisations to look at the scale of what is being talked about is enough to give you nightmares. What they know about you or (as I like to think) what we have told them about us is staggering. But there’s more to it than simple information gathering.- Posted in PRWeek, Uncategorized, blog, frontpage
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- Tags: danah boyd, facebook, geolocation, giga om, google, jeff jarvis, kevin kehhler, opt-out, privacy, private, scoble
