Facebook One Step Closer To Conquering The Web?
Chief Executive Cutie Mark Zuckerberg unveiled some new features on Wednesday at F8, Facebook's annual developer conference. In their latest kumbaya like move towards transforming the web into a giant social network, the company has dumped Facebook Connect in favor of "Open Graph" and partnered up with Microsoft to create a Google Docs competitor.
Open Graph is a set of APIs and Protocols that allow a web developer to add to familiar "Like" button to any web page "in just 10 minutes". In return Facebook provides the developer with demographics on their visitors via "Insights" - essentially a mini Google Analytics.
Facebook's partnership with Microsoft has resulted in a sort of Google Docs and Facebook hybrid. The experiment went live today at Docs.com and is based on Microsoft's Silverlight and of course Facebook's new Open Graph.
You might have noticed that Google is almost as prominent in this story as Facebook. That has led some to speculate this is the latest indication that Facebook is winning in a war with Google over control of the Web.
So what do you think? Is Facebook out to conquer the Wild Wild Web or just trying to make the Web a better experience for us all?
Facebook expands presence on other Web sites [SFGate]
Facebook Makes Major Announcements at F8 (Live) [Mashable]
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Posted to In the News on 22 April 2010
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I can't see Facebook supplanting Google just yet, at least as far as I am personally concerned. I use Google both as a source of potential clients, and as a research information tool. It is superb.
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Facebook has undeniably become integral to my daily web use. However, its pile of privacy policy gaffes isn't diminishing and its users are increasingly aware of what they're giving up for the convenience of not having to attend class reunions to keep up. I definitely consider it possible that they'll do something so egregious one day that I just stop using it altogether.
Google, though? That one feels impossible. The winners on the Internet will be, as always, those who provide the ability to find, manipulate and publish data with the lowest possible hassle:data ratio, and so far that's Google. Facebook's business model, insofar as I understand it, seems to me to require some degree of hassle and that's surely going to hamper them in the long run.