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By: Internet: sarà la futura infrastruttura sociale del Real-Time Web basata sui blogs?

Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:51:07 +0000

[...] "Facebook is The Borg" (ricordate i Borg di Star Trek, i nemici più temibili della Federazione dei Pianeti Uniti?) scriveva Doc Searls qualche tempo fa, e partendo dal controllo totale delle identità dei suoi utenti esso previene il Web dall’essere veramente user-centrico (altro che World Wide Social Network – ed ecco perché non sono su Facebook). [...]

By: cyrusnelson

cyrusnelson — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:29:59 +0000

So I thought Duke Nukem Forever would never come out, but I just saw this footage of it on http://jacehall.tv. Does this mean that it is going to come out.

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Who Hates the Facebook Redesign? You Do | Blippitt — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:00:42 +0000

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By: Facebook is “The Borg”? at Theoblogical

Facebook is “The Borg”? at Theoblogical — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 18:13:46 +0000

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By: Ed Brenegar

Ed Brenegar — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:44:02 +0000

Facebook is like sitting in a coffee shop, and everyone has a different newspaper, and everyone is shouting out stories they are reading. I don’t find it sufficiently interactive.

I find that Twitter is much more conversational because of its character limits. In fact, I’d say that we have a social network spectrum with sites like Ning on one end, Facebook in the middle and Blogs on the other, and the conversational glue is Twitter.

One of the social network challenges is how to avoid any of these social network sites that you must go to and visit from becoming a closed, defensive network.

The future belongs to those people who can foster a network of people that are from widely dispersed, non-redundant social settings.

Twitter allows me to discover people from that much wider environment to get to know and engage. Then if we have a common interest, we go to Ning or Facebook and create a group. As a result, we have more control.

By: » Another Shot At Web 2.0 - Doing Something! JJMacey Dot Net / Blog: Run Lixux, Run Open Source - Run Free!

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:35:52 +0000

[...] problem with Facebook, besides the fact that it’s the freaking Borg, is that the Noise/Signal ratio there is, for me, about 600-to-1. Yesterday I found the first thing [...]

By: Rocky

Rocky — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 17:01:18 +0000

Hi Doc!

Borg for myspace and Facebook is an accurate description.

But this is to Marisol; I would love to read what you come up with on this…

“How do you see the role of government monitoring developing, taking into account web developments and the changing media landscape?”

By: blog.timc3.com » Facebook is AOL 2.0

blog.timc3.com » Facebook is AOL 2.0 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:30:18 +0000

[...] Facebook is The Borg: “ [...]

By: Our need for interaction locks us up « Alexander van Elsas’s Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:06:58 +0000

[...] is very much 1.0. They are silo’s. You are either in, or out. Or as Doc Searl puts it, Facebook is the Borg. Once in, it is hard to get out. You should realise that it isn’t Mark Zuckerberg or a [...]

By: Steve Kleine

Steve Kleine — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:53:25 +0000

Love the Facebook=AOL 2.0 analogy. That is how I’ve been trying to explain it to friends who are not savvy in all things Web 2.0. It takes the big wild scary web and shrinks it to something more manageable…well not in your case!