Google's plans to kill Facebook All your personal data and social networking information are needed if Google is to fulfil its stated aim of organising all the world's information (and selling advertising against it).
September 22, 2007 5:28 PM If your aim is to own the world (and all the world's advertising), then you don't want a large chunk of your better-off subjects doing their socialising on Facebook, where you can't so easily get at their data [or in NewSpeak, social graph]. Obviously you're supposed to use Orkut, so Google would have a record of your identity and your social network, as well as your search records, your email, your calendar, logs of your online chats and much of your surfing behaviour, your photos and your documents. But while Orkut has been successful in some places, such as Brazil, it failed in the US. Full article at: http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/09/22/googles_plans_to_kill_facebook.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.isoc-ny.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
