"It’s not enough to petition the likes of Facebook to give us our data. We need to create the rules by which our data can be used. When we sign on as “members” of some company’s “social network”, they need to sign our terms as well. From the s
What is the Digital Natives project? An academic research team -- joining people from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and the Research Center for Information Law at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland -- is hosting
Leveraging Network Hierarchies to Find Success. The real key to unlocking the economic “sweet spot” in the Facebook app community is to fully understand the network hierarchies that exist on Facebook.
Like locked cell phones and copy-protected music, Facebook is on the wrong side of the open-network debate. Facebook is a sealed bubble. Facebook users are locked into Facebook, just as iTunes locks music fans to Apple's iPod.
"If Facebook allowed users to differentiate between their professional and social relationships and control what parts of their profile are visible based on relationship type, it" could be the end of LinkedIn...
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