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Dilemma of Facebook

Stephen Downes has a pretty good article concerning Facebook in the recent issue of Innovate in which he discusses the dilemma of facebook to be open or closed system.
Facebook is at once too closed and too open because the functions it serves require both openness and privacy. It is, like other social networks, trying to [...]

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Facebook

In the cover story on Newsweek, the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg talked about an interesting concept “social graph“. He described it as “a mathematical construct that maps the real-life connections between every human”. What Facebook is striving for is to “construct as accurate of a model as possible of the way the social graph looks [...]

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