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September 26, 2011 01:11 am GMT
It's been over 72 hours since Facebook first debuted a series of groundbreaking new features at f8, which is all the time I need to predict the company's long-term outlook, the way it will reinvent the web, and the pricing of its inevitable IPO.Okay, maybe not. But it's given me some time to try the features out, as opposed to basing my impressions off of Facebook's well-crafted keynote presentations. And while many of these obviously have a lot of potential, in practice I'm finding them to be a mixed (or, in some cases, a downright irritating) bag.Social OverlubricationOne of the big announcements at f8 was something called frictionless sharing. Here's the gist: Facebook will let third-party sites and apps integrate what's effectively a sharing firehose. Turn it on, and everything you do in the app gets shared with your Facebook friends.
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Clinging To Friction: Some Thoughts On Facebooks f8
It's been over 72 hours since Facebook first debuted a series of groundbreaking new features at f8, which is all the time I need to predict the company's long-term outlook, the way it will reinvent the web, and the pricing of its inevitable IPO.Okay, maybe not. But it's given me some time to try the features out, as opposed to basing my impressions off of Facebook's well-crafted keynote presentations. And while many of these obviously have a lot of potential, in practice I'm finding them to be a mixed (or, in some cases, a downright irritating) bag.Social OverlubricationOne of the big announcements at f8 was something called frictionless sharing. Here's the gist: Facebook will let third-party sites and apps integrate what's effectively a sharing firehose. Turn it on, and everything you do in the app gets shared with your Facebook friends.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/1WNDh8G4xdY/
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