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Interesting argument that Facebookās graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebookās data is dirty [http://stevecheney.posterous.com/graph-searchs-false-promise-and-the-con-of-th] : > It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirtyāi.e. there is no true
NEXT11
Can search get more social? Bing's Ralf Herbrich thinks so.
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Iām coming to the conclusion that thereās an awful lot of nonsense being talked about Ping, the new social tool in iTunes. Please note: āsocial tool in iTunesā not āsocial networkā. Thatās the root of the confusion and dismay, I think. People are looking at Ping and
alan patrick
[](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg)Image via [Wikipedia](http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Facebook.svg)I have spent a lot of time thinking about [Facebook](http://facebook.
Blogs
1. The Closed Space Closed spaces are where your conversations are as private as you want them to be. Dominated the by the social networks (Facebook, Bebo, MySpace) as well as theĀ network-focused blog platforms (Vox, Livejournal), they are as much communication services as publishing platforms. You choose exactly who
action streams
This is interesting [http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2008/04/if-the-news-is.html]: Itās a nice visual summary both of what this social graph business is all about, where itās going and the desire for people to have a āhubā for it. Iām hoping that the [Action Streams
action streams
So, like the good wee social media sheep that I am, I just [signed up for FriendFeed](http://friendfeed.com/adders). And I started entering all my social media sites. And then I realised that this all seemed very familiar. I was duplicating something Iād already done. Iād
But the problem is that theyāre my relationships, not Facebookās. The social network is merely the tool Iāve used to define them. Itās my data and I should be able to get it back, without resorting to terms of service violating activity. And Facebook is already