Comments on: How Facebook could open the Open Graph APIs

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 13 May 2010 21:33:11 +0000

Love this idea Sam! It will be interesting to see how how FB will respond in the next couple of days. I also like the NYU/Diaspora thing but share the view elsewhere that at this point it's a bit overhyped

By: spullara

spullara — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:43:58 +0000

I actually agree. If 99% of the people still used Facebook to manage all their data that would be fine as an outcome. The remaining 1% could be hosted on Diaspora and still get access to the other 99% of the users.

By: GlennLEU

GlennLEU — Thu, 13 May 2010 03:39:21 +0000

To be perfectly frank, I don't think most real people understand these issues. Does a normal human understand what it means when you say that something should be stored on the server of your choosing and not on Facebook? I think not. I appreciate the Diaspora and other efforts, but think they need a strong centralized brand around them for it to make sense to people. Also, I think privacy in general is changing online, the emergence of http://www.dirtyphonebook.com and other similar sites is proof positive of that. Privacy is undergoing a redefinition as young folks are learning that sharing data online is normal. I don't see any real way around shifting these attitudes and changing this societal trend. It would certainly be nice if Facebook cared more about security though. The incident in the last week or so where people were able to check out private messages is more troubling to me than this other privacy stuff. Just my opinion.

By: spullara

spullara — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:41:29 +0000

Now if we can only get Facebook to ask you what a user likes rather than their own database.

By: Sam Sethi

Sam Sethi — Thu, 13 May 2010 02:38:15 +0000

Glue has already implemented this by using the FB OpenGraph Protocol but the data objects “liked” are stored in their own servers and not in Facebook. Also I think Google are trying to do something similar with rel=me claims on my Google Profile.