Facebook Can Get You Fired, Dumped, And Yes, Evicted

Don't be surprised if one day it happen to you! The article with this title is written by Stan Schroeder. Check out at http://mashable.com/2009/04/14/facebook-evicted/.

Getting deeper into FriendFeed

The table below is the result of my further analysis of FriendFeed social network.

Migrating to web 2.0

We're getting back to the Network Weavers' case. We've discussed it before and we already now it is a small bricks & clicks company active in the social networking consultancy sector. The purpose of the analysis now is to make some recommendation for the migration towards more competitive e-services/ e-business site. The recommendations presented in the table below represents only the my opinion and not the company's strategy or intent.

Facebook Owns Your Photos

For all who have never actually read the Terms of Use for Facebook, they have changed their policies to allow them to own all content you (facebook user) upload.

Now even if you take down pictures from that time you got drunk with the guys, Facebook owns those pictures in their servers and can retrieve them whenever. Even if this may seem minor, this information is ours, it is private, it is not for Facebook. Facebook runs off of membership, exploiting the trust of its members will run it down to the ground, something many users would prefer not to see, considering it is a useful program to keep in touch. Facebook would not lose anything legally or monetarily from not owning its user's photos.

If you have a Facebook account, join the group 100,000,000 Against Facebook Owning Its User's Photos!

Network of Networks: Business Model of Friendfeed.com

1. Identify the adopted business model and the involved business model entities, elaborate on the e-business activities deployed and the type of transactions performed. Justify all your answers.

Friendfeed is a virtual community. It is an example of an emerging concept of “network of networks”. Friendfeed enables to see web pages, videos, photos, and music your friends are sharing from around the web. It automatically picks up the stuff you share on over 40 web sites, like YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, etc.

Business Model

Strategic Partners

Friendfeed extracts content from different Social Web2.0 Services, like Facebook, LinkedIn, Delicious, where the user has accounts.

Key Activities

Aggregation of feeds in one place, within one common User Interface.

Key Resources

Open APIs of supported Web2.0 Services. Through these APIs, Friendfeed access the information and content related to the user, which is stored in these Web2.0 Services.

Value Proposition

To users: aggregated feeds from different Social Web2.0 Services.
To supported Web2.0 Services: promotion and benchmarking of their resources.

Customer Relationship

Friendfeed was launched recently, and it needs to prove its safety in order to gain users’ confidence.

Distribution Channels

• Blogs
• Portals
• Advertisements
• Search Engines

Customer Segment

Users of Social Web2.0 Services.

Cost

Free of charge

Revenues

As the project is very recent, it hasn’t deployed any revenue model so far.

2. Identify whether they are involved in marketspaces and if so as what kind of component. Define the type of e-marketplaces that best fits the specific e-business case. Justify all your answers.

Friendfeed is not involved in any marketplaces.

3. What in your opinion are (if existent) or would be (if not existent) the potential benefits and limitations of blog services to those e-business sites?

Friendfeed.com has a blog, which serves as means of building customer relationship, making announcements, promoting the project (for example, via search engines, which can index the blog), gathering feedback from users and answering users’ questions.

Network of Networks

The concept of "network of networks" is relatively new. If you have more than 3 accounts in different social networks, it will probably interest you. Friendfeed is an example of this new kind of networks. It is aimed to answer one simple question: "what's up?" Go to http://www.friendfeed.com to check it out.

Social Networks

For those of you who are really into social networks it worth to find out that there are consultancy companies specialised in this field. One of them is Network Weavers and if you visit their corporate blog looking for more information on social networks you wont be disappointed. 

Network Weavers is a small bricks & clicks mix founded in 2006 by three consultants specialized in creating and weaving social networks. 

Each of the consultants has a extended expertise on creating healthier networks and offer services as: social networks analysis, network mapping and metrics, network building projects as well as other specialised services. The information on the website is brief but  rather clearly presented and provides links to personal web-pages and their corporate blog.

It's worth to have a look on both the website and the corporate blog. You might also enjoy the excerpt above!

http://www.networkweaving.com/blog/ 

I facebook therefore I am... Safe?

Needless to say, facebook is a social network utility. Everybody knows that bit. If you don’t facebook you don’t exist. I know you’d say that’s taking things to the extreme.... Let’s put it this way - if you don’t facebook you miss a lot of the current, up-to-date extreme fun & interaction. Don’t you? And therefore you’re a bit ‘less’ social. And less fun. Friends can’t buy you, can’t sell you...they can’t poke you, rank you, comment at your silly status...and can’t scan through all your photos and giggle... (yes, they giggle!!!)

I started to facebook a while ago. Got too many calls and e-mails from offended friends with pending invitation. To be honest, I wasn’t keen to be on facebook after my Hi5 delirious experience. Apparently all my friends regardless of age, sex or orientation got a private message from me saying: ‘Hey Sexy! I’ve been thinking about you. I fancy you and really want to invite you over. Let me know! ’

And guess what?!?! They did let me know!!! Big time!!!

Security breach? Bad joke? Don’t know what it was but caused me months of embarrassment. At that time everybody thought that if you have an antivirus everything it’s safe. And a social network was heaven on earth... Errr, I mean heaven online! Something like that just couldn’t happen and I should admit my sinful desire of dating the whole list.

It’s very interesting how people can get very paranoid about their computers... But when they trust something. They do it fulltime! And now they trust facebook - otherwise they wouldn’t share their entire life story in there.

Just think about how easy it is to spy on a facebooker. It gives me goose-bumps!!

Glossary

facebook |fāsboŏk|
Noun
1 a place where almost everybody is: Are you on facebook?
Verb [ trans. ]
1 to spend a considerable amount of time logged in on facebook;
2 to have a facebook-related activity: I facebooked him yesterday and he didn’t even poke me back.

DERIVATIVES

facebooker (noun) - someone that has a facebook profile
facebook-aholic (noun) - a facebooker that spend most of the time logged in, has all the applications and is a billionaire on friends for sale
facebookable (adjective) = to be available on facebook