things I read yesterday … 05/17/2008
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Data Portability: It’s The New Walled Garden
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The scuffle today between Facebook and Google has very little to do with user privacy and everything to do with user control. A huge battle is underway between Google, MySpace and Facebook around control of user profiles and, therefore, users themselves. And their three new products, Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and Friend Connect, are all designed to further that goal.
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Let me put this another way. How dare Facebook tell ME that I cannot give Google access to this data!
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Ultimately I hope that I can keep my identity, friend list, photographs, videos and everything else that constitutes the (de)Centralized Me at any service provider that I trust (meaning I trust them to protect that data, but never go against my wishes and try to keep it to themselves if that isn’t what I want), and just tell sites like Facebook and everyone else where to grab it.
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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong «
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I was arguing that if you 1. Friend me AND 2. Give me your email address that I should be able to put that email address into whatever system I so please, just like when you hand me your business card (and therefor that Arrington was wrong).
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Carlyle to buy part of Booz Allen Hamilton – Times Online
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After months in the doldrums, the buyout market is staging a modest recovery
with Carlyle, the private equity group, agreeing to buy part of Booz Allen
Hamilton for $2.9 billion
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FT.com / Companies / Financial services – Citigroup mulls sale of German retail operations
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Citigroup is looking to sell its German retail banking operations as part of the radical steps being taken by Vikram Pandit, chief executive, to scale back his company’s operations in the wake of the credit crisis.
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Birthing pains in the colonization of the social Web | Outside the Lines – CNET News.com
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On Thursday, Facebook suspended involvement with Google’s Friend Connect, claiming that it redistributes user information from Facebook to developers without users’ knowledge, violating the company’s terms of service.
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