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Dev

Facebook’s VR (Dys)topia

As I watched Facebook unveil the latest developments in virtual reality at last month’s Oculus Connect developer conference, there were two things going through my mind. First, there’s excitement in hearing about the latest game titles that’ll be available with Oculus VR, but it’s the second that has me the most concerned: the VR incarnation […]

Dev

Facebook Touts Privacy Future, But Critics Question Sincerity

“Today we are going to talk about building a privacy-focused social platform,” said Mark Zuckerberg as he began his keynote address at this year’s F8 developer conference. Facebook’s soon-to-be 35-year old chief executive took the stage to introduce the world to what he hoped his creation could become, one that pressured its users to be […]

Dev

Mark Zuckerberg To Make Case To Developers That Privacy Is A Good Thing

On a May morning, Mark Zuckerberg, weeks after an intense grilling by members of Congress, made what would be his first public address, telling a room full of developers: We have real challenges to address, but we have to keep [our optimism for the future] as well. And what I’ve learned this year is that […]

Social Media

The Reset of Facebook

Facebook once had the mantra “Move Fast and Break Things” which encouraged the development of tools and services at breakneck speeds. While it was retired in 2014, for more than a decade, it was something that the technology company believed in and that philosophy has helped lead Facebook to the success it has had since […]

Network Solutions

What The Movement Against Facebook’s Privacy Policy Is Really Saying About The Hype

This is a cross-blog post from Network Solutions Solutions Are Power website that I guest wrote. Originally posted on SolutionsArePower.com on June 3, 2010. In my last post, I talked about how privacy issues were affecting the way people view their social networks. In this post, I’d like to talk about the growing movement that is […]

Marketing

Social Networking Revival: It Might Be MySpace’s Time To Shine Over Facebook

I know TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington wrote about this earlier, but I wanted to offer some thoughts as it relates to Facebook’s latest privacy” crisis of faith”. With more and more talk about what Mark Zuckerberg has reportedly (and yet to be proven) said via instant message that gave people the impression that privacy is just another […]

Social Media

To Social Networks & The Internet, Your Privacy Isn’t Private. Lock It Down.

There’s been a lot of talk lately surrounding privacy and social networks like Facebook and geo-location services (FourSquare, Gowalla, Google Latitude, etc.) and I have been meaning to write a post about this issue for a while now. In light of the recent f8 conference and how reports surface that founder Mark Zuckerberg feels that […]