Comments on: Facebook: new social network site; same old walled garden http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/ ...is a blog by Tom Scott a place where I ramble about my thoughts and observations on the open web, linked data, URIs and generally how technology and design can create great things for people to use. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:20:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Media companies should embrace the generative nature of the web « Derivadow.com http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-2319 Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:54:00 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-2319 [...] mean that what you build must be generative. There are, after all, plenty of successful walled gardens and tethered appliances out there. The answer, in part, depends on what you believe the future of [...]

]]> By: Data Portability - the need for DRM « Derivadow.com http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1837 Tue, 08 Jan 2008 09:59:46 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1837 [...] Facebook because it’s a walled garden and walled gardens, as the name suggests, makes too tough to get data out. The pertinent question then is who owns the data – is it Facebook, Robert Scoble or each [...]

]]> By: OpenSocial Google’s answer to Facebook’s walled garden « Derivadow.com http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1813 Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:47:49 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1813 [...] rather than trying to tie users and developers in and is exactly what I was wittering on about previously. This is also bad news for [...]

]]> By: OpenSocial Google’s answer to Facebook’s walled garden « Derivadow http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1664 Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:54:01 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1664 [...] rather than trying to tie users and developers in and is exactly what I was wittering on about previously. This is also bad news for [...]

]]> By: Tom http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1276 Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:38:04 +0000 http://derivadow.com/2007/07/03/facebook-new-social-network-site-same-old-walled-garden/#comment-1276 UPDATE

It looks like Plaxo are about to launch an inside out Facebook service: “a new social network that’s both open as well as controllable… a social network that lets me own my own data and take it out of Plaxo and put it on other social networks… a social network that lets me control which groups of friends (or family) that can see certain items.” Now that’s what I’m talking about! :)

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