Breaking, Zuckerberg in NYC:
2:48: “the next hundred years will be different for advertising, and it starts today. As marketers pushing our information out is no longer enough. We are announcing anew advertising system, not about broadcasting messages, about getting into the conversations between people. ”
2:44 PM: Zuckerberg is explaining the social graph. “Where Facebook really […]

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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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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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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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Please digg and help me find this interview…
If someone could help me out, I am looking for an interview I recall Zuckerberg did where he claimed they had a joke inside Facebook that ‘we can guess who will get into a relationship based on variables’. I won’t venture to guess the success rate they had, […]

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On the social graph:
Zuckerberg: “What we’re trying to do at Facebook is take that social graph which already exists and map it out. Then we can take that map we’ve constructed and connect everything through applications… That concept is deep in the company’s philosophy. In fact, we thought of building a platform for social applications […]

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Dave Morin, senior platform manager, Facebook:
Facebook is largest photo sharing site. Not because of more features but because it leverages the power of the social graph.

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It makes sense, but it’s a bit too complicated for the average user to accomplish. Along the same lines, it’s definitely too much of a hassle for anyone to go through to export data (they own?).
Paul Robinson of Vagueware writes:

On adding an application a user is invited to select all the friends the user […]

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