Comments on: Google, Social, and Facebook: One Ring Does Not Rule Them All

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:18:05 +0000

Well, if you really want more privacy, just get a personal or private network such as with Odysen.

It's cheap, no advertising, and easy to share with whomever you want, both across your network or with specific users in your network.

While it doesn't have all the games or flashing shiny objects that social networks have, it is helpful for actual communications, imho of course...

By: SusanPAus

SusanPAus — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:44:04 +0000

Your FB data is currently being skimmed by data-mining companies. Not sure if you're aware of this by your wording. Most companies can also skim Twitter DMs.
I've undertaken data-mining analytics and the work I did drew on posts from Twitter, FB, blogs and news-services.

By: SEO Toronto

SEO Toronto — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 04:35:37 +0000

These are really good points… However Google has lots of secrets they aren’t sharing…

By: Seo

Seo — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:03:51 +0000

I had to read this article a couple of times to try and grasp what is going on here. We all know that social signals are coming. We know where they are going to start (Facebook, twitter, maybe flickr, foursquare, gowalla), but who knows to what degree they are going to stop. Unfortunately, creating a profile anywhere on the internet, no longer allows anything about you to be private. Whatever you put online, is out there. Who knew that the wild west of the internet would evolve into an experiment in global social etiquette.

Regardless, as far as what Google is up to, I agree, it is something bigger. Perhaps they have now entered the "if we can't beat em, join em' part of the social networks. As far as facebook's relationship with Microsoft / Bing, who know what was written into the agreement, and what 1.9% of an investment into a company can really buy. Maybe Microsoft was ahead of the game when they did this agreement and purposely put in exclusivity rights when it came to data sharing. Regardless, there appears to be a bunch of interesting things that will play out in both the Search world, and SEO world for the next few years.

By: Aldo Castaneda

Aldo Castaneda — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:28:41 +0000

John,

I like where you're going with your post above John. But I think the notion that this is just about "social" might be limiting. Shouldn't we include "all of our signals", reflecting all of the aspects of our lives, as living breathing beings. Signals about our professional lives, health, hobbies, habits, beliefs...the list goes on. Sure much of that data needs to be kept confidential but it will have vast value of we can individually aggregate it and expose it as we as individuals see fit.

-Aldo

By: Paisley

Paisley — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:31:57 +0000

John,
did ya notice FaceBook connect login on youtube?

think about it.. youtube will get all the data it wants from facebook... or from it's users... =)

By: step21

step21 — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:23:40 +0000

Isn’t the problem more that facebook doesn’t like google using its data? More or less like what you said about usage policies only that from what I recall weren’t there more fundamental differences?