While moving my live bookmarks over into a reader, finally, I was greated by these statistics from Google after importing my feeds.
Trends
From your 16 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 0 items, starred 0 items, shared 0 items, and emailed 0 items.
We have 6 variables of data shown to us, each of which […]

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Google and Facebook are both suspected of snooping on data. I am sure companies have been doing this for a while, it’s demographic analysis, taken to another level.

Valleywag is reporting that a Facebook employee allegedly used a universal login to view people’s profiles.
Valleywag: Facebook Employees Know what Profiles You Look At
Facebook’s privacy policy doesn’t explicitly […]

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Quite the interesting development, here comes ‘Maka-Maka’
Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google’s social graph data. They’ll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google’s personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time.
More on this at […]

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Facebook and Google can talk about “sharing” social graph data and introducing “social ads.” They get touted as innovators, not slammed for violating customer privacy. It’s a boundary clearly being defined on the fly.
Read more at Telephony 2.0

Verizon recently sent out customer notices offering them the chance to opt out of having their […]

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The Register’s take on the whole situation?
Perhaps they’ll realise that web 2.0 is not there to “connect you with the people around you” and not about some pseudo-academic “social graph”. That’s the bait. The switch is the big data centre pumping adverts based on your age, where you live, who you’re friends with, what you […]

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I have some Google alerts set to email me whenever someone uses a term related to social graphing, and it’s been growing exponentially over the past week. The trend that I have noticed is that everyone is talking about everyone else talking about social graphing. Yes, we all know it’s there, and we all know […]

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Very interesting post over at Techcrunch. We have seen this coming for years, they have a demographic goldmine so it’s obvious they could better pinpoint ads.
The interesting part was this:
This sort of demographic ad-targeting can be done by Facebook app developers as well. I just got off the phone with RockYou CEO Lance Tokuda […]

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ZDnet covers the semantic web:
Danny Hillis (Metaweb), Barney Pell (Powerset) and Nova Spivack (Radar Networks) shared the stage for a session on the semantic Web at the Web 2.0 Summit.
All three are developing services that bake more intelligence into the Web. And, the companies are all well funded, hyped and loaded with experience and talent. […]

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Rich Karpinski makes an interesting point,
Do telecom service providers own anything equivalent to a social network’s social graph? At first thought, we’d say no, though as hinted at above call detail records are information-rich and enable telcos to track (and bill) for small actions at an individual level.
How service providers deal with the power of […]

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Interesting article at The Economist about social graphing being a ‘fad’ sweeping across silicon valley. Google CEO Eric Schmidt steps in as well,
Silicon Valley’s craze for the “social graph”, however, is overdone. The term has been around in computer science for decades, says Eric Schmidt, Google’s chief executive, so it is puzzling that Mr Zuckerberg […]

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