'At Davos this year, a powerful newspaper publisher beseeched Mark Zuckerberg... for advice on how he could build and own his community. The famously laconic Zuckerberg replied “You can’t.'''
Why am I using these services nearly every hour of my waking life? Because they are being talked about and I want to learn what is making people so passionate...trying to figure out what they are good for and whether the hype is justified. In my opinion:
"So let me leave this as a challenge to Technorati, Feedburner, TechMeme and anyone else trying to tie together the loose threads of the blogosphere - how do we Facebookize the open web?..."
"With tonight's release, you can now enable members of your social network to add videos, music, podcasts, and photo slideshows - branded and linked back to your network on Ning - to Facebook with one-click."
"Facebook will become a defacto identity manager amongst the general internet population, unless some big names adopt OpenID as standard it will struggle to compete with the massive userbase that Facebook will build."
"The Facebook Platform... means you can use lots of cool new applications within Facebook. We’ve tested most of them,... Here are more than 30 of the best, with more being added as they are announced..."
"The Obama application puts the most recent campaign video and news on your profile and in front of your friends. It also enables you to easily communicate with your friends in early primary states where support for Barack is especially important..."