Jason Calacanis is declaring facebook buncruptcy.
It is something I always wondered about: how much can you scale social media? How many comments can an individual follow? How many emails can an individual read and respond to? How many friend connections can you keep up on Facebook or LinkedIn before loosing control?
After a certain scale, social medial are still reciprocal but maybe not symmetrical… This could be an interesting mesure to compare social-* (media, networks, etc) platforms.
Google Public Policy Blog: Google’s views on goverment, policy and politics, is good reading.
I especially like their “open broadband manifesto” (”manifesto” is my addition).
However, what I would expect from google is some kind of commitment to user data accessibility. Are users free to move their data from service to service? Do they know exactly what kind of data a service is collecting and using? Should/Do users have the right to delete their own data? Who owns what? What is the equivelent of Open Source Software in Applications? What is the minimum functionality a Web API should expose to the world?
Com’ on Google, we expect you to be able to deal with difficult problems…
Blogger feeds can now be transparently redirected to FeedBurner.
That was an easy one, not something spectacular, but definitely useful. Still…
- waiting for FeedBurner and Google Analytics integration
- waiting for FeedBurner and AdSense integration
BTW, shouldn’t Wordpress.com provide all users with the FeedSmith plug-in?