Turner's Perspective

whatever

I don't see how they are competition

That's like GM deciding to use more grease than Cracker Barrel

Hhhmm, sounds interesting and I don't even know what "facebook" is? I guess I will just have to wait to find out.

Sean Allen

Jeff, what does it mean by "facebook being 98% open"?  Oh educate me, our tech guru.  :-)

I am with sean, I have not heard of facebook and why would the announcement come out about it is secert.

Just read the article... is it about facebook allowing the creation of applications on their platform?

We'll see what happens on 11/5, feels like the "presidential election" - what's going to happen next?  What do you think of Facebook Jeff?

A real social network is a community and users don't change communities at the drop of a hat. What I find more interesting is being able to bridge these communities instead of worrying about the 1% of users who hop from community to community like crack addled humming birds skipping from flower to flower.

 I copied this sentence off a post on social networks and I think it is true. IGoogle is getting more popular by the day. I'm surprised Google just doesn't buy Facebook and call it a day. I'll hold out my opinion to see how it unfolds, I can see some good in not hopping from flower to flower but ......................

Anyway I use by IGoogle more each day, did you know you can now bring in all realtor dot come listings in for your area ? slide shows, list and listing details ? I've been following it for about a week. Interesting, I can see buyer who know where they want to move using this app ?

If those guys talked to you and signed non-disclosures, are they really reliable?  Not to challenge your sources, but, that's just a little suspect to me...either way, we'll see how it unfolds...

I guess I need to learn more about how to use my IGoogle webpage.  I have thought of it as nothing more than to quickly give me the weather everyday so I know what to wear to work, and to quickly get a dictionary when writing a post.  I guess there's more to it than that.

Jeff, thanks for continuing to educate us.

All... I don't have a clue what this means. I wasn't one of the 15 invited. Reading through Brad Fitzpatricks, Thoughts On Social Graphs, you get a sense for where he and others may want to take this. It's long, but it's not a technically difficult article to read. It's more conceptual than technical. I found it fascinating, personally.

 

So I guess we will all just have to wait a month and a half to see what shakes out.  Thanks for telling us about this Jeff.

David... whatever? :) Google surely doesn't feel Facebook is a competitor, but the rush of developers running to build Facebook apps certainly did not escape their attention. The last thing Google wants is for Facebook to become the central repository for web applications. They want that spot. Opening up their entire platform and providing a tie to information from within and without would certainly provide incentives for developers who don't want to be locked into any single platform.

 

 

 

Sean and Susan... you're certainly not alone. When I asked a recent audience of real estate agents how many had heard of facebook, more than 90% had not. It's a social networking site that is getting a great deal of attention because of it's move to an almost completely open development platform. This is allowing companies to access the network of users to launch applications. The users use Facebook to network with friends and their community or groups.  That's the simple explanation. Much more could be said.

Irina... it's about Google opening up their API to allow the same. The speculation is about how far they are going to take it and whether this will included ability to pull and push data inside and outside of Google. 

Chris... of all the Social Networking sites, I like Facebook the best. It just "feels" right. The apps being built for it are, right now, mostly for fun, games, etc... but that won't be true for long.

Missy... I don't see any value in jumping from network to network either. Right now AR and Facebook are my true network focus. Everything I else join is for learning purposes. For example, I updated my Digg profile and invited a few people, but mostly to see how it works. Find out why it might be beneficial, etc. 

 

Rondel... non-disclosures are notoriously weak. Personally, I don't need them and I don't break them. However, they weren't telling ME, they were telling Michael Arrington at TechCrunch. As for authenticity, one person saying it might be suspect. Three people from three different companies... that's more than just a rumor. TechCrunch has a good reputation for accurate reporting. 

Fran... thanks, but in this case, I'm not really educating. I just wanted everyone to see what might be coming. It may not have any interest to most, but it may. The part of the article that really got me thinking was the paper written by Brad Fitzpatrick.  

Steve... yep. I'm just going to enjoy the speculation for the next few weeks. But I love this stuff. :)

I hope you will keep us posted on further speculations as I am sure if anyone is going to find them/hear about them, it would be you.

Google is the big boy.  I am not surprised that they will be doing something.  I am shocked they do not buy up some more companies to do more things. 

Jeff -good stuff --I was unaware of iGoogle unti now.  I think Google is the Madison Avenue of the internet.

What do you think of Linkedin?

Jeff:  I have heard of facebook but had not looked at it.  Because of the comments by you and others, I can see this is something I need to take a look at.  Also because of Missy's comment, I will definitely have to check out iGoogle.  I love this stuff but right now and getting more and more confused - I think because I am still dabbling and have not set down and really created a structure.  I would be a missing for me if you were not such an active member of this community.

Geez! !

You're working me to death.

 

Very interesting Jeff. All I can say is: "Don't mess with Big Brother" Google will win that battle hands down.

Lenn... :) I highly doubt that!

Bryant... or they'll just buy them. 

Jeff,

I guess you can say they are or will be cornering the market.

The begging question here is...is Google the new Microsoft?  They seem to want to own the internet and face no competition in any forum.  Somewhat scary.

Thanks for sharing  the info. Google is already so powerful and the fact  that there won't be much competition is not good.

I think I am at the point of exhaustion from joining groups, networks, social sites and blabbidy blah's.  The list is never ending and now they're just ticking me off. 

 ::hand to the forehead::   I vant to be left alone.

Google is an interesting animal that will change the way the world works whether we like it or not - thank you for the update Jeff!

Jeff, Google continues to amaze me.  When I think of Google I immediately think of the book by Sun Tzu called "The Art of War".  They are going after it in a big way.

Neal... they're going to try, that's for sure.

Chris... yes.

Gita... somewhat, without question.

Chris... :)

Chris... (I wonder how many Chris' we have on AR?) True and they already have.

Sam... me as well. You and Survivor China are enticing me to read that again. 

I'm sure google has a few new and innovative tools that none of are expecting. I guess we'll all find out soon enough. Keep doing what you do.

Vincent... yes they do. One of the ways to see what's in their head is to frequent Google Labs. Very interesting stuff.

JT, Actually thought YAHOO was entertaining Facebook. Either way, don`t see how this will effect FB in any way...